Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China announced the list of 444 experts who were approved to get the 2016 Special Government Allowances of the State Council. CHEN Guoquan, Cheung Kong Scholar Professor at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM), and other 18 scholars from Tsinghua University are on the list.

Professor CHEN Guoquan

Professor CHEN Guoquan has studied and did research in several leading business schools in the world such as Judge Institute of Management Studies in Cambridge University, MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar in MIT Sloan School of Management.

The main research areas of Professor CHEN Guoquan include organizational learning, learning organization, team learning, learning team, individual learning, learning leader, leadership, team management and so on. He has developed related concepts, models, methods, assessment tools and implementation systems for the above areas. He has published over 80 papers and several books at home and abroad. He teaches organizational behavior, leadership development, leadership and team management for graduate, EMBA, MBA, and Executive Education students.

In 2001, he was elected to the “Top 100 in Beijing Social Sciences in New Century”. In 2003, he was awarded the “Outstanding Young Professor Academic Award of Tsinghua University”. In 2004, he was elected to the “New Century Outstanding Scholar Support Plan” by Chinese Ministry of Education. In 2006, he achieved “National Distinguished Youth Science Foundation Project” sponsored by Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2011, he was awarded “Cheung Kong Scholar Professorship”. In 2013, he was named “Fudan Management Excellence Award”. In 2014, he was awarded the title of “National Expert with Remarkable Contributions”. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, he entered the list of “Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researchers” continuously.

Special Government Allowances of the State Council has been implemented since 1990, which shows the concern and care of Chinese government for professional and technical personnel. It is a significant strategy for talent development in China. All finalists have made significant contributions and outstanding performance in their own areas.