Obituary: Professor Wang Jiafu

  2020

Professor Wang Jiafu, a former director of CASS Law Institute, died in Beijing on July 13, 2019 at the age of 89.

Professor Wang Jiafu was a member of the Academic Committee of CASS, a research fellow and former director of CASS Law Institute, a doctoral supervisor at CASS Graduate School, a member of the Law Committee of the Eighth National People’s Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress, Vice Chairman of the Third and Fourth China Law Society, Chairman of the Academic Committee of China Law Society, Chairman of China Civil and Economic Law Society, Honorary President of the Civil Law Research Committee of China Law Society, and a winner of the honorary title of an “Outstanding Senior Jurist in China”, and the honorary title of “Pioneer of Reform” awarded by CPC Central Committee and the State Council.