{{Short description|Chinese economist (1929–2021)}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Gao Shangquan|date=June 2021}} [[File:27. Internationales Management Symposium 1997-Shongquorn Gao-HSGH 022-000754-02.jpg|thumb|Image of Gao]] '''Gao Shangquan''' (September 10, 1929 – June 27, 2021<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chinanews.com/gn/2021/06-27/9508407.shtml|title=高尚全逝世，享年92岁，一生追求改革|author=Li Jinlei|date=June 27, 2021|website=[[China News Service]]|language=zh}}</ref>) was a Chinese economist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3139198/chinese-economist-gao-shangquans-death-blow-pro-market-voice|title=Chinese economist Gao Shangquan's death a blow to pro-market camp within Communist Party|last=Zhou|first=Cissy|work=[[South China Morning Post]]|date=29 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/briefing/2008/12/11/the-second-long-march|title=The second Long March|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=11 December 2008}}</ref>
== Life == {{Contemporary Chinese political thought|liberalism}} The 1984 ''Decision on Economic System Reform'' followed intense debates. Gao Shangquan frequently clashed with Party theoretician [[Wang Renzhi]], later a key figure in the 1989–1992 conservative backlash. Backed by [[Hu Yaobang]] and [[Zhao Ziyang]], the Third Plenum of the 12th Central Committee ultimately endorsed the concept of a "planned commodity economy" (有计划的商品经济), marking a milestone in China's reform era.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Lei |first=Letian |date=2025-11-03 |title=Identifying China’s Long 1980s |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/identifying-chinas-long-1980s/0446BB58DB1093C34A3AA44773CA82BC#article |journal=The China Quarterly |language=en |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1017/S0305741025101471 |issn=0305-7410|doi-access=free }}</ref>
From 1985 to 1993, Gao was vice chairman of the National Economic System Reform Committee. From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the 9th National Committee and director of the Chinese Society for Economic System Reform.<ref>[http://www.chinareform.org/newsevents/news/201208/t20120803_148136.htm/ ''Chinareform.org – Gao Shangquan'']{{dead link|date=April 2018|archivebot=2018-04-11 13:45:45 InternetArchiveBot |url=http://www.chinareform.org/newsevents/news/201208/t20120803_148136.htm/ }}</ref>
Until 2010, Gao was also chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Research into Chinese Economic Reforms and Professor of Peking University and Dean of the Faculty of Management at Zhejiang University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography of Gao Shangquan |url=https://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Gao_Shangquan%7C1506/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=China Vitae}}</ref>
His funeral in 2021 was attended by former Premier [[Wen Jiabao]].<ref name=":0" />
== Works == His publications, "The Reform of China's Industrial System" (1987) and "Two Decades of Reform in China" (中国改革二十年) (1999), exerted a decisive influence on the development of Chinese reform and opening-up policy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfeps.org/people/gaos/|title=Gao Shangquan|website=CFEPS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221161613/http://www.cfeps.org/people/gaos/|archive-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref>
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