Dr. Chen Deming was born in Shanghai in March 1949. He graduated from the Department of Management of the International Business School of Nanjing University. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and a Doctor’s Degree in Management.

In April 2013, Dr. Chen was elected President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits. He has also been a Standing Committee Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference since March 2013.

Prior to his current position, he served as Minister of Commerce between 2007 and 2013. He worked as the Minister-level Vice Chairman and Deputy CPC Party Secretary of the National Development and Reform Committee after 4 years of working in Shaanxi Province as Vice Governor and Governor successively. Prior to that, he had taken on various leadership positions in Jiangsu province including Member of the provincial CPC Standing Committee, CPC Party Secretary and Mayor of Suzhou City. He was also the Chairman of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Company Ltd. while working in Suzhou.