FANG Shou'en was born in December 1961 in Cixi, Zhejiang Province, China. He obtained his BSc in road engineering in 1984, MSc in road and airport engineering in 1994 and PhD in road and railway engineering in 2000 from Tongji University respectively. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in December1983 and began his teaching career at Tongji University uponcompletion of his first degree at Tongji in 1984. FANG worked as head the teaching group of Road and Traffic engineering from 1997 to 2000, and became the vice head of the Department of Road and Transportation Engineering, Tongji University in 2000. He served as CPC Party Secretary of College of Traffic and Transportation Engineering from 2002 to 2010, and as a Vice Party Secretary of the CPC Committee of Tongji University from 2010 to 2016. He assumed the role of Executive Vice Secretary of the CPC Committee of Tongji University in September 2016 and became the Secretary of the CPC Committee of Tongji University in July 2017.