The New Great Leap Forward

After the establishment of the People’s Republic, China adopted the Soviet model: the CPC and various In the last few years, China has experienced a government agencies created research academies think-tank boom in response to the government’s and institutes. [...] On balance, With the onset of economic reform in the late the Chinese characteristics of these think tanks 1970s and early 1980s, many old research institutes — their relationship with the government and the were revived. [...] On one side of the subtle debate are familiar Western models on two issues — the those who stress that think tanks must operate relationship of think tanks with the government under the leadership of the Communist Party (for and the functions of think tanks. [...] The first Later the same year, the CPC Central Committee American think tanks were created in the early held a working conference on think tanks and 1900s, including the Russell Sage Foundation, the announced the first group of 25 high-end think Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the tanks as experiment sites. [...] Unlike the first from inside the government.” Many prominent generation of think tanks, which strived to provide think tanks, such as the Institute for Research broad and non-partisan studies of important on Public Policy, the C. D. Howe Institute, the issues, they used their research to promote their North-South Institute and the Conference Board of own ideological and policy positions.