| Office1: | Chairman of Heilongjiang People's Congress |
| Term Start1: | January 2003 |
| Term End1: | April 2003 |
| Successor1: | Song Fatang |
| Office2: | Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang |
| Term Start2: | July 1997 |
| Term End2: | April 2003 |
| Predecessor2: | Yue Qifeng |
| Successor2: | Song Fatang |
| Office3: | Minister of Forestry |
| Term Start3: | March 1993 |
| Term End3: | July 1997 |
| Predecessor3: | Gao Dezhan |
| Successor3: | Chen Yaobang |
| Xu Youfang | |
| Native Name: | 徐有芳 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Place: | Guangde County, Anhui, China |
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma Mater: | Anhui Agricultural University |
Xu Youfang (; born December 1939) is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the 15th and 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] He was a delegate to the 9th National People's Congress.
Xu was born in Guangde County (now Guangde), Anhui, in December 1939. In 1959, he entered Anhui Agricultural University, majoring in the Department of Forestry.
After graduating in 1963, he was assigned as an official to Bajiazi Forestry Bureau in northeast China's Jilin province, and worked there for ten years totally. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1973. In October 1973, he was despatched to Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, where he eventually became its deputy head in April 1983.
In January 1985, he was transferred to Beijing and appointed director of Forestry Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Forestry. He moved up the ranks to become vice minister in March 1986 and minister in March 1993.
He was appointed party secretary of Heilongjiang in July 1997, concurrently serving as chairman of Heilongjiang People's Congress since January 2003.[2] [3]
He was chosen as deputy head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group in April 2003, and served until July 2007.