TAN Xuewen holds a PhD degree in Economics and is now a senior research fellow with the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Before that he worked in Beijing Research Center for Rural Economy for 5 years. His major academic interest includes migration and urbanization, rural economic polocy analisls and sustainable development. He is going to implment one research project of the safety issue of GM FOOD in 2007 and another project on rural governance in ethnic regions in China during 2007-2008.