Xie Xuren

Xie Xuren
Xie Xuren
Hanyu Pinyin	Xiè Xùrén

Xie Xuren
谢旭人
Xie Xuren; 谢旭人
	Minister of Finance
	In office; 30 August 2007 – 16 March 2013
Premier	Wen Jiabao
Preceded by	Jin Renqing
Succeeded by	Lou Jiwei
Personal details
Born	October 1947 (age 76); China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Zhejiang University
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Xie Xuren (

State Administration of Taxation. He was also a member of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

.

Biography

Xie was born in 1947 in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Xie first worked for Ningbo Zhenhai Machinery Factory. At beginning, Xie was in charge of the factory's general facilities, but later he was promoted to its vice-president. Xie joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1980.

From September 1981 to January 1984, Xie studied at

Yin County

, a county (now a core district) of Ningbo, and became the head of the county. In September 1985, Xie was promoted to the provincial government of Zhejiang Province in Hangzhou. He was the Director of Zhejiang Provincial Economic Information Center.

Xie was also a senior economist in the government. In May 1990, Xie was promoted to the Ministry of Finance of China's central government in

Secretary-General

of the State Administration of Taxation of P.R.China. In 2007, he was pointed to be the Minister of Finance of P.R.China. And then became a member of the 17th CPC Central Committee.

Xie was also one of the leaders representing China during the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in 2009.

Policies and reform

Abolishment of agricultural taxes

In 2005, in about 28 provinces (including

billion yuan

.

On 1 January 2006, the old regulations and laws about agricultural taxes were abolished, since then all agricultural taxes (except for tobacco) have been cancelled in mainland China, thus ended China's 2600-year history of agricultural taxes.^[1]

Revenue

In 2007, China's revenue reached a new historic height at 5.13

trillion yuan.^[2]

Although since late 2008, China has also been heavily influenced by the

Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, Xie stated on January 5, 2009 that 2008 China's revenue (tax income) "are expected to breakthrough 6 trillion yuan", which would be an over 20% increase of 2007.^[3]

References

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Political offices
Preceded by Jin Renqing	Director of State Administration of Taxation 2003–2007	Succeeded by Xiao Jie
Preceded by Jin Renqing	Minister of Finance 2007–2013	Succeeded by Lou Jiwei

[1] 谢旭人在纪念废止农业税条例暨全面取消农业税座谈会上的讲话^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] 谢旭人:2007年全国财政收入51321.78亿

[3] 谢旭人：2008年中国财政收入料突破六万亿元

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