Chairman & Chief Economist, China Center for Urban Development

Li Tie is Research Fellow, Doctoral Advisor and the receiver of the State Council Special Expert Allowance. He is Chairman and Chief Economist of the China Center for Urban Development. Previously, He worked for the Rural Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, the State Commission for Economic Restructuring and the State Commission for Structural Reform. Mr. Li has been engaged in drafting the Central Government’s urbanization and rural policy documents as well as speeches by major central leaders. He chaired a series of key research projects on China’s urbanization strategy, urban planning for healthy urbanization development and migration policy in the process of urbanization. Mr. Li led dozens of international cooperation projects with international organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, the European Union, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the World Economic Forum.