Liu Hongru
Liu Hongru | |
|---|---|
刘鸿儒 | |
| Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission | |
| In office October 1992 – March 1995 | |
| Premier | Li Peng |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Zhou Daojing |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1930 |
| Died | 14 March 2025 (aged 94–95) Beijing, China |
| Party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University Moscow Finance College |
Liu Hongru (Chinese: 刘鸿儒; 1930 – 14 March 2025) was a Chinese government official who played a key role in financial reform in the 1980s and 1990s. From 1979 to 1995, he was successively Vice President of the Agricultural Bank of China, Vice President of the People's Bank of China, Vice Director of the State Commission for Economic Restructuring, and Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. He has been referred to as "one of the architects of the early financial sector" of China, namely the financial system that was shaped by the early phase of the reform and opening up from the late 1970s to the 1990s. He was also instrumental in establishing the PBC School of Finance, the graduate school of the People's Bank of China at Tsinghua University.