On this day, 37 years ago, on February 8, 1988 (December 21, 1987 in the lunar calendar), my country's famous economist Xu Dixin passed away. Xu Dixin is like Xu Dixin, born in 1906 in Jiexi, Guangdong. He once used his name to be famous and Fang Zhiping. Joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1925. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1933. He has served as deputy director of the research department, director of the propaganda department, and secretary of the Party and Youth League of China Union of Social Scientists, director of the Organization Department of the General League of Left-wing Cultural Circles of China, editor-in-chief of Hankou Mass Weekly, and editorial board member of Chongqing Xinhua Daily. In the 1940s, he was responsible for the establishment of China Economic Undertakings Association and China Democratic National Construction Association. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served successively as deputy director of the East China Financial and Economic Commission, secretary-general of the Shanghai City People's Government, director of the Central Administration for Industry and Commerce, deputy director of the Eighth Office of the State Council, member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director and vice president of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, consultant, and vice chairman of the Third and Fourth Central Committees of the Democratic National Construction Association. He is the author of "Political Economy in the Broad Sense","On Socialist Production, Circulation and Distribution","Transformation of China's National Economy", and is the editor of "Dictionary of Political Economy","Encyclopedia of China¡¤Economic Volume", etc. He died on February 8, 1988.