Li Tie

Research Fellow, Doctoral Advisor
Director General, the China Center for Urban Development

Mr. Li is an expert on urbanization issues and receiver of the State Council Special Expert Allowance. Previously Mr. Li worked for the Rural Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, the Rural Development Research Centre of the State Council, the Development Research Center of the State Council, the State Commission for Economic Restructuring and the State Commission for Structural Reform.

Mr. Li has been engaged in drafting the Central Government’s rural and urbanization policy documents. 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.

Under his leadership, CCUD keeps a cooperation relationship with international organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Ford Foundation, the World Economic Forum and the European Union. Mr. Li chaired and led dozens of international cooperation projects.

He authored Urbanization: A Comprehensive and Profound Social Transformation, and Urbanization: My Personal Perspective. He is also the chief editor of Urbanization and Social Transformation Series.