Cai Fang is vice president of CASS and a member of its leading Party members’ group.

Mar. 1976-Oct. 1978

Worked and lived as a “young intellectual” in the Fengbo Commune in Shunyi County, Beijing

Oct. 1978-Sept. 1982

Studied at the Department of Agricultural Economics (now known as the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Department) at Renmin University of China

Sept. 1982-Aug. 1985

Studied postgraduate degree at the Department of Rural Development at the Graduate School of CASS

Aug. 1985-Nov. 1992

Led research at the Department of Rural Development Theory at the Rural Development Institute at CASS

Oct. 1986-Aug. 1989

Studied doctorate at the Graduate School of CASS

Oct. 1988

Rated as associate research fellow

Nov. 1992-Aug. 1993

Head of the Department of Rural Development Theory at the Rural Development Institute at CASS

Aug. 1993

Rated as research fellow

Aug. 1993-Sept. 1998

Deputy director of the Institute of Population (now known as the Institute of Population and Labor Economics) at CASS

Sept. 1998-July 2014

Director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at CASS

May 2006-May 2007

Deputy director-general of the Construction and Administration Bureau of South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project and deputy director of the Construction and Administration Division of Canal Project

July 2014-Sept. 2014

Vice president of CASS, member of leading Party members’ group of CASS, director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at CASS

Sept. 2014-present

Vice president of CASS, member of leading Party members’ group of CASS, delegate of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, member of the 12th National People’s Congress Standing Committee,CASS member

Translated by Chen Mirong

Revised by Tom Fearon