Chen Guoping, Ph.D. in Law, a native of Hanchuan City, Hubei Province; Secretary of Joint Party Committee of CASS Law Institute and CASS Institute of International Law, currently presiding over the work of CASS Institute of International Law; and deputy director of and an associate research fellow at CASS Law Institute.
I. Education
· 1984: Bachelor of law, Law Faculty of Hubei Institute of Finance and Economics (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law);
· 1987: Master of Law, Graduate School of Zhongnan Institute of Political Science and Law (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law);
· 1991: Ph.D. in Law, China University of Political Science and Law.
II. Work Experience
· Jul. 1987 - Sept. 1988: Teaching Assistant, Law School, Zhongnan College of Political Science and Law;
· Aug. 1991 - Dec. 2001: Assistant Investigator, Investigator, Deputy Division Chief, and Associate Inspector, the Secretariat of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee;
· Jul. 1998 - Aug. 2001: Deputy General Secretary, Party Committee of Tibetan Autonomous Region;
· Dec. 2001 – Sept. 2003: Deputy Director, Research Office, General Office of the CPC Central Committee;
· Sept. 2003 – Jul. 2006: Deputy Director and Party Secretary, Research Office of the Party Committee of Chongqing Municipality;
· Jul. 2006 – Dec. 2009: Executive Deputy Director and Party Secretary, Party History Research Office, the Party Committee of Chongqing Municipality and Editor-in-Chief of the Magazine Hongyan Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn at the Red Rock);
· Dec. 2009 – Aug. 2010: Curator and Party Secretary of the Archives of Chongqing Municipality;
· Sept. 2010 – Nov. 2018: Party Secretary and Deputy Director, CASS Institute of World Economics and Politics;
· Oct. 2013 – Oct. 2014: Deputy Head of the Research Office of the Party Committee of Beijing Municipality;
· Nov. 2018 – Now: Secretary of Joint Party Committee of CASS Law Institute and CASS Institute of International Law and Deputy Director of CASS Law Institute; he has been presiding over the work of CASS Institute of International Law since July 2021.
Ⅲ. Main Part-time Positions
· Guest Professor, School of Administrative Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law;
· Specially Invited Research Fellow, China Institute for Healthy Cities;
· Specially Invited Research Fellow, China Institute for Leadership Science;
· One of the first batch of specially invited research fellows, CASS Research Center for Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in a New Era.
Ⅳ. Main Research Fields
Chinese legal history; history of Communist Party of China; Party building; and world economics and politics.
Ⅴ. Main Academic Works
1. Books
· Global Governance and China’s Strategy, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, August 2018 (first editor-in-chief) (this book is published as a part of the book series Think Tank Forum of World Economics and Politics);
· Transition of the International System and China’s Strategic Choice, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, September 2017 (first editor-in-chief);
· Reform of State-owned Enterprises in Russia, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, March 2013 (first author);
· Human Casualties and Property Losses Suffered by Chongqing During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Beijing: History of Communist Party of China Press, February 2011 (deputy editor-in-chief);
· Giving Peace to the World: Collected Papers from the International Conference on the Bombing of Chongqing and Other Atrocities Committed by the Japanese Armies in China During World War II, Chongqing: Chongqing Publishing House, October 2008 (co-editor-in-chief) (This book is published as a part of the book series Investigation Results of the Research Project on the Losses Suffered by China During the War of Resistance Against the Japanese Invasion, a project specially commissioned by the National Social Science Fund of China);
· Selected Papers from the Academic Seminar on “Correctly Handling Contradictions Among the People and Building a Harmonious Socialist Society”, Beijing: History of Communist Party of China Press, November 2007 (co-editor-in-chief);
· History of Communist Party of China in Chongqing, vol.1, Chongqing: Chongqing Publishing House, July 2011 (responsible for organizing the writing, reviewing and proofreading and the final compilation and editing of manuscripts);
· Zhang Jinfan (ed.), A Review of Studies in Chinese Legal History, Beijing: Publishing House of Chinese People’s Public Security University, June 1990 (participated in the writing of some chapters);
· Zhang Jinfan (ed.), General History of the Chinese Legal System, Beijing: Law Press China, January 1999 (participated in the writing of Volume Seven of the book);
· Studies on the Administrative Law in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing: Law Press China, June 1998.
2. Translated Works
· Hyung I. Kim, Fundamental Legal Concepts of China and the West: A Comparative Study, Chinese Edition, Shenyang: Liaoning People’s Publishing House, April 1989 (first translator);
· The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Science, Chinese Edition, Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, June 1992 (an executive member of the Editorial Committee and a co-translator of the book).
3. Papers and Articles
· “A Preliminary Exploration in the System of ‘Single Tax in Silver’ in the Ming Dynasty: The Effect of Law on Economic Reform”, 2 (1986) Journal of South Central Institute of Political Science and Law;
· “A Preliminary Discussion of the System of Management of Government Officials by Severe Law in the Ming Dynasty”, 4 (1987) Journal of South Central Institute of Political Science and Law;
· “A Brief Discussion of the Legal Thought of Zhang Juzheng”, 2 (1989) Journal of South Central Institute of Political Science and Law;
· “A Brief Discussion of the Power and Law in Zhang Juzheng’s Reform”, in Legal and Political Forum, Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, June 1991;
· “On the Government Officials Assessment System in the Ming Dynasty”, 1 (1993) Journal of South Central Institute of Political Science and Law;
· “On the Relationship Between the Central and Local Governments in the Ming Dynasty”, Guangming Daily, April 12, 1993, p.2.
· “A Preliminary Exploration in the Inspection System in Ancient China”, 4 (1993) Office Administration (collaborator and writer of the article);
· “The Way of Realizing Long-term Prosperity in Macao”, 6 (2012) International Economic Review (the first author);
· “Being ‘Adventurous’ and Abiding by the State Law”, Legal Daily, August 18, 1992, p.1.
· “Openness: An Effective Medicine for Treating Corruption”, Legal Daily, July 31, 1995, p.1;
· “On Ways of Improving the Quality of Document Proofreading”, 10 (1995) Office Administration (collaborator and writer of the article);
· “Lessons to Be Learnt from Disaster Reliefs in the History of Chongqing”, 10 (2006) Hongyan Chunqiu; (the main author);
· “Scholars Should More Conscientiously Take Marxism as Their Guidance in the Research on World Economics and Politics”, in Speeding up the Construction of Philosophy and Social Sciences with Chinese Characteristics, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, May 2017;
· “Learning from Anti-Secession Practices of Western Countries and Resolutely Upholding the Unification of the Motherland”, in Promoting the Prosperity and Development of Social Sciences with Chinese Characteristics in a New Era, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, October 2018;
· “How to Promote Big Development through Big Openness in Extremely Remote Inland Regions”, in Reform, Opening-up and Development of Counties in China, vol.2, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, November 2018 (the main author).
4. Research Projects
· Project leader and author of the project report, “Countermeasure Studies on Strengthening the Supervision over ‘the Number One Leaders’ of Local Party and Government Organs” (a report on the Research Project “Party-building and Historical Experience of the CPC”, carried out by Class A of Prefectural-Level Cadres, the 49th Advanced Training Course for Leading Cadres, the Party School of CPC Central Committee) ;
· Leader of the project team and main author of the project report, “Drought Reliefs in the History of Chongqing and Their Revelations”, the project report received positive comments by the main leaders of the municipal Party committee of Chongqing in a written instruction on the report;
· Project leader and author of the project report, “Investigation on the Reform of the Township-level Election System”, a Key CASS Project on the Investigation of National Conditions in 2011;
· Project leader and the main author of the project report, “History and Experience of Opening-up to the Outside World in Tengchong City, Yunnan Province”, one of the sub-projects of the project “Investigation of 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up in One Hundred Counties”, commissioned by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee.
5. Awards:
· His paper “A Preliminary Discussion of the System of Management of Government Officials by Severe Law in the Ming Dynasty” won the Award for Excellent Research Results of Zhongnan Institute of Political Science and Law (1984-1986);
· His paper “A Brief Discussion on the Legal Thought of Zhang Juzheng” won the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Achievements of College Students in the Capital City and the Encouragement Award in the Second “Challenge Cup” National Competition of Extracurricular Academic, Scientific and Technological Works of College Students, jointly sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, Beijing Association for Science and Technology and Beijing Student Federation;
His paper “On Ways of Improving the Quality of Document Proofreading” won the Third Prize awarded by the Evaluation Committee on Academic Achievements of Secretarial Journals in China.
