Seasons Greetings from CCG

 
Dear Friends,

At this special moment, we would like  to express our deep and sincere appreciation for your important contribution to CCG all through 2014 and wish you a happy new year and the best for 2015.

This past year has been a highly successful one for CCG. Thanks to your great participation and support, CCG has made significant progress over the past 12 months. We remain dedicated to the goal of establishing CCG as a leading independent think tank in China with a strong global presence and influence that strives to promote the globalization of Chinese talent and enterprises. Our overriding objective is to offer high quality research and strategic advice in order to help Chinese policymakers enact better policies domestically and globally. We are quite honored to have you as our partners in fulfilling this vision.

In 2014, CCG experienced substantial growth, bringing it much closer to its goals of becoming a leading independent and international think tank in China. This year, we inaugurated the North China Global Talent and Dongguan Talent Institutes, which will both play a key role in analyzing and providing policy advice on how China can attract the highest quality talent in the request to remake its economy. CCG now also has branches in nine cities-Beijing, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Dongguan, Hong Kong, New York, Washington, Frankfurt and Paris. We have built up an extensive international institutional network, boasting an extended but streamlined organizational structure and highly efficient team with over more 60 full-time researchers and staff.

In 2014, CCG provided more than 40 Policy Recommendations and Memos for the Chinese Central Government, 10 of which were adopted by the Ministries concerned, with three providing guidance for top-level leaders on specific key issues. This success underscores CCG’s increasingly deep and visible footprint in influencing and shaping policy-making in China.

In 2014, CCG released four Blue Books, while undertaking six important research projects for the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, and National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science. CCG also put out two new Blue Books, Report on Globalization of Chinese Enterprises 2014 and Report on Overseas Chinese Professionals 2014, which are the first in-depth studies of these two important issues undertaken by a China-based think-tank.

In late May of 2014, the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC recognized CCG as a "Base of Global Talent Research." In so doing, it acknowledged both CCG’s expertise in this issue and the valuable advice it has given to the Chinese Central Government in helping to shape human resource and talent development policies.

In 2014, CCG put on more than 20 activities, organizing "The 9th Forum on Chinese Overseas Returnees Innovation and Entrepreneurship" and "Inaugural Meeting of China Outbound Forum." CCG cooperated with a number of highly regarded international think tanks to hold international seminars. These included the International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Metropolis, Asia Society, U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, American Enterprise Institute, Rand Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Think Tank Research Center, and Hong Kong Fung Global Institute. CCG wrote and its leaders gave keynote speeches at the International Migration Conference and World Education Summit. CCG also delivered an address entitled "The Coming Spring of Chinese Think Tanks" at a conference held at Harvard University. Moreover, CCG produced and presented, in cooperation with Shanghai-based Dragon TV, the first large-scale documentary on overseas Chinese coming back to their mother country, Chinese Returnees in Contemporary China(15 episodes). All of these activities clearly show that CCG is creating a high profile for itself both in and outside of China, strengthening its status as the most prestigious and leading think tank in the Chinese talent and enterprise globalization.

In 2014, CCG successfully held its annual top executive working conference. This year’s gathering involved the Chairman of the Consultative Committee, Long Yongtu, Co-Chairman Ronnie Chan, and vice-chairmen and standing directors, who offered constructive suggestions to CCG.

In 2014, CCG published ten treatises, twelve monthly journals and the book entitled Global Think Tanks. The latter is the first book in China providing comparative research and study on Chinese and well-known foreign think tanks. The volume has been published by the People’s Publishing House.

In 2014, CCG received more than seven million search results on China’s leading internet search engine, Baidu. Our research achievements have been covered by more than 100 mainstream media outlets both in China and abroad, with the latter including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, and The South China Morning Post. Hundreds of individual stories were written about the organization over the past year. CCG transmits its influence to high-end audiences through a very informative website which is in both Chinese and English and seven WeChat platforms.

In 2014, CCG gained an increasing national influence and international prestige. We would like to express our sincere appreciation for your support, which has helped make all of that possible. We hope that by continuing to work hard together, we can keep CCG on the fast track to becoming a first-class global think-tank. Thank you!

Best Regards,
Sincerely,