Major: Philosophy 

　　Research Interests: Human Resources and Social Security  

　　Born in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, Rao graduated from Beijing Normal University with a Bachelor degree in Philosophy in July 1989. From July 1989 to March 2008, he worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Personal of China, and was successively served as inter researcher, assistant researcher, deputy section chief and section chief. From October 1995 to February 1996, he attended a public management course at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom; from October 2003 to September 2004, he worked in Tianzhen County, Datong City, Shanxi Province, as a deputy secretary of the county party committee to assist the poverty relief task of local government; from July to October, 2007, he went to Stanford University in the United States to attend a project of training for young and middle-aged cadres from the central state government and localities. From November 2013 to August 2014, he served as a deputy director of the Personnel Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 

　　Main achievements :  

　　1.Project leader of “The October Revolution Database”. This database is a major informatization project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, completed and concluded in 2020. 

　　2.Project leader of the investigation of national affairs of “Stay Ture to the Mission, Taking the Lead in Poverty Alleviation”. The report was included in the research series Hundred Cities, Hundred Counties, and Hundred Enterprises, Vol. 2, Reform and Opening Up and China’s County Development as a celebration of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, published by Social Science Academic Press in 2018. 

　　3.Project leader of “Comparative Study of Chinese and Foreign Parliamentary Systems”. A latitudinal project which was completed and concluded in 2017. 

　　4. “Review and Prospect of World History Research and Overview of the Symposium on 50 Years celebration of the Establishment of the Institute of World History”, World History, No. 6, 2014. 

　　5.Participants of the project of “Analysis of the Expansion and Sustainability of China’s Pension Insurance Coverage”. The project won the Third Prize of the Fifth National Bureau of Statistics for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research, and was included in the Collection of Outstanding Achievements, published by China Statistics Press in 2008. 

　　6.“Characteristics of Human Resources Development in Belgium and the Netherlands”, in International Personnel Research, edited by the Department of International and Cooperation of the Beau of Human Resource of China in 2004. 

　　7.Main member of the research team for the compilation of “The National Personnel Cadre Professional Training Syllabus”, Versions A, B and C. The collection was issued in September 2003, and was served as an manual for the professional training of personnel cadres in government personnel administration departments and personnel agencies at department (bureau) level, divisional level, and section level. 

　　8.Paticipant of the project of “Research on the Training Strategies of Senior Managers in Chinese and Foreign Enterprises”. The project won the third prize for excellent scientific research achievements in the personnel system of 1997. 

　　9.“Characteristics and Implications of Administrative Reform in Western Countries”. The paper was admitted in the “Proceedings of the 1997 Sino-British Seminar on Management Development”. 

　　10.“Feeling the Service in Britain”, Chinese Civil Servant, No. 10, 1996. 

　　11.“Meeting New Challenges - Exploring Enterprise Reform in China and Foreign Countries” (co-author), edited by Wu Tonghui, China Reform Press, 1995. 

　　12.“Foreign Enterprise Personnel Management Series”, co-author, edited by Wu Tonghui, Personnel Press, 1994. 

　　13.“Training Institutions for Civil Servants in the United States”, China Talent, No. 12, 1994. 

　　14.“Talent Recruitment - an Important Aspect of Human Resource Management at IBM”, China Business News, 4th edition, 15 February 1994. 

　　15.“The ‘Moment of Truth’ at SAS in Northern Europe”, China Business News, 4 January 1994. 

　　16.“Chapter 4: A Comparative Study of Examination and Recruitment Systems”, in Comparative Personnel Administration, edited by Liu Shouheng, Wu Tonghui and Peng Faxiang, Hunan Science and Technology Press, 1992.