Yu Guangyuan (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Yu Guangyuan; 5 July 1915 – 23 September 2013) was a prominent Chinese economist, philosopher and government official.
Yu is recognized as one of the first scholars to put forward the socialist market-oriented economic system in China and to propose the theory of "the Primary Stage of Socialism" and served as a close adviser and speech-writer to the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
Yu was a senior member of the Political Research Office of the State Council, a deputy president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a deputy director of the Science and Technology Commission of the State Council.