Han Jun

Han Jun, vice president (vice minister) of DRC, was born in Gaoqing county, Shandong province, in December 1963. He graduated from the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in 1989, and got a PhD in agronomy. He worked at the State Council's Rural Development Research Center (RCRD) from May to December 1989, then was transferred to CASS' Rural Development Institute (RDI), from 1990 to 2000 and as a deputy director and director of the Editorial Department, deputy chief editor, then chief of the staff of Chinese Rural Economy magazine. Later he was appointed deputy director of the RDI and became a senior research fellow at CASS in 1995. He was transferred to the DRC in 2001 and director of its Rural Economy Research Department. He attended a Central Party School class for young-to- middle-aged cadres in 2006 and, in October 2008, was made a member of the DRC's Leading Party Group.

Han has spent years helping draft Party Central Committee and State Council documents and has done research on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers and co-authored Rural China Investigations, Studies on Finance at the County and Township Level and Burdens on Farmers, Studies on Strategies for Food Security in China, Studies on Building China's New Countryside, Strategic Studies on Issues of Migrant Workers, Strategic Studies on Food Production Capacity and Balancing Supply and Demand, and other works. Since 1993, he has had a special outstanding contribution allowance and won a Sun Yefang Prize for Economics, a China Development Research Prize, and an Original Publication Engineering Work Prize. He is also a doctoral tutor at CASS and China Agricultural University and a vice-president of the China Association for Agricultural Economics, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture's Soft Science Committee, and a member of the All-China Youth Federation Standing Committee.