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环保企业海牛环境12月25日在新三板挂牌上市
2015年12月25日海牛环境835039.OC在新三板挂牌上市。浙江海牛环境科技股份有限公司上市主办券商为国金证券，会计师事务所为中汇会计师事务所，律师事务所为浙江天册律师事务所。 中商产业研究院资料显示，截至2015年6月30日浙江海牛环境科技股份有限公司营业收入达518.743412万元，净利润109.055243万元，公司总资产2859.232814万元，净资产1739.826941万元。 中商产业研究院资料显示：浙江海牛环境科技股份有限公司位于浙江省海外高层次人才创新园，座落在全国4个未来科技城之一的杭州未来科技城，毗邻杭州西溪国家湿地公园和浙江大学，区位优越、环境优美、资源丰富、空间广阔。公司在杭州金枫叶科技有限公司基础上发展壮大而来，一直致力于石油化工、环保和节能等领域的新技术开发、应用服务及相关专业设备的生产和销售。公司主要为全球的石油天然气等领域客户提供溶剂净化和工业污水处理整体解决方案，包括胺液整体解决方案HATS、石化行业污水整体解决方案HOWS、液体零排放、劣化环丁砜净化解决方案等。公司是一家集研发、设计、生产、销售、服务为一体的国家高新技术企业，通过了ISO9001质管理体系、ISO14001环境管理体系、OHSAS18001职业健康安全管理体系的认证，并严格贯彻执行。公司十分注重技术的研发和创新，与中国石油大学、浙江大学在污水处理、离子交换技术等多方面开展科研合作，并自主研发了多项世界先进技术，拥有多项发明专利，填补了国内空白。其中浅层床高效离子交换技术已在多个领域获得成功应用。 公司是国家人才战略支持单位、国家高新技术企业、中国膜工业协会理事单位、软件企业、海创园重点科技项目企业、杭州市“雏鹰计划”企业，在过去的几年中，公司完成了多项石化、炼钢环保工程项目、污水处理项目；与GE、陶氏化学、中石化、中石油等世界知名500强企业以及荷兰、德国、美国、法国等多家专注于分离技术、水处理技术领域的专业公司形成了良好的合作关系。文章选自中商情报网，2015年12月25日
2015年12月28日 -
王辉耀：海归创业最好的时代就是现在！
他是中国与全球化智库理事长兼主任，更是著名人才研究战略专家，他是欧美同学会副会长王辉耀。人才强国，创业创新，中国发展新常态之下，他说，挖掘留学红利，就需要发挥留交会平台优势。海归创业，就在今天。戳↓看人才研究战略专家王辉耀对海归们的建议“挖掘留学人才红利”面对人才强国的需求，面对创业创新的时代，王辉耀以国际化的视角，为我们解析挖掘留学人才红利的重要性。“海归为中国带来了新的技术、资本、人才，也成为联结东西方海内外最佳的桥梁，是创业的推动剂和催化剂，人才作为中国未来新型的软实力，在未来30年的发展会更加依靠国际化的人才。”而中国企业对外投资开启新纪元，更需要大批具备国际视野、通晓国际规则、能够参与国际事物与国际竞争的国际化人才。中国作为世界上最大的留学人员产出国，“高输出、低输入”的弊端正在不断凸显，因此，我们更需要一个平台，更好地为国家实现招才引智的目标。“海归的机会在今天，创业的机会也在今天”80年代出国深造，90年代回到内地，他正是受到了邓小平南巡讲话“海归要做贡献还是回来好”的感召，更是因为看到了国内万物生机勃勃，到处都是机遇的大好环境！然而万事开头难，王辉耀回忆起当年创业，并非易事。“我记得当时回国，买了一个传真机，为了办理一个传真入网的编号到处跑。当我还带回来了一台电脑，在北京海关跑了20多趟才拿到一台电脑。”相比于当年，今天的创业条件不一样了。现在海归创业，有国家提出“大众创业，万众创新”、“双向政策”等政策支持，有最好的创业导师，有更多的创业经验分享，更有留交会等创业平台。因此王辉耀也向广大海外学子发出号召，如果真想要做出一番事业，回到中国，回到留交会是最好的选择。留交会作为中国海外留学人员交流第一品牌，中国留学生创新创业的最佳平台，为吸引人才、人才的交往交流带来巨大的空间和机会。全中国全世界关注留交会，能提升留交会的品牌价值和影响力，而留交会也会促进更多留学生回到中国，吸引全球的人才来中国创业创新。在这个稳定发展的中国，在这个创业创新的时代，第17届留交会，纳天下英才，助创新驱动。12月21日-22日，广州白云国际会议中心，盛大开幕。第17届留交会宣传视频即将上线，更多留交会的人与故事，即将感动上演。
2015年12月18日 -
Bombardier to bridge cooperation in China
High-altitude train coaches developed by Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd are used on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.President of Chinese division said company will help develop Belt and Road through joint venturesIn 1998, Bombardier, the world's leading train manufacturer, became the last foreign company to tap into China's rail transportation market. Since then, however, the company has overwhelmed its foreign peers in market share and has become one of the nation's most successful companies within the sector.Despite the company's success, Zhang Jianwei, president of Bombardier China, said he can't afford to relax because of increasingly fierce competition in the Chinese market."China has the world's most competitive railway and urban mass transit market. It is unparalleled in terms of market share, potential, demand, product variety and the number of users. It has already established an integrated industrial manufacturing and service system, which has resulted in increasingly robust and complicated competition in the country," Zhang said."The Chinese market is large enough to accommodate a large number of international manufacturers, but this will not last very long. Some players will be forced out as the market and the competition develop."Zhang recently spoke to China Daily about Bombardier's business development in the nation, his philosophy of cooperation and competition, and how the company will seize on opportunities brought by China's Belt and Road Initiative. The following are edited excerpts of the interview:You have been working in Bombardier for 20 years. Did you expect to work in the company for such a long time when you first joined?Honestly, at first I planned to work at Bombardier in Canada for a few months or a year to gain some practical experience in a multinational corporation because I was about to obtain my doctorate at that time and having such experiences would help promote my future research and teaching.You were nominated as the president of Bombardier China in 2005 to develop businesses in the Chinese market. What was the most difficult time during the process?Actually, there is no easy time during the whole process. The most difficult thing is not about commerce. I am not saying expanding our Chinese business is easy, but we can always find ways to solve these problems. The biggest challenge is to find a proper way of communicating between foreign companies amid different or even conflicting cultures, values, corporate management models and business practices. It is hard to let a multinational company with facilities in China adapt to both markets, because they have different rules and operation models, and I need to find a balance.How do you think a company should react in times of crisis? Have you any edificatory ideas or experiences to share?To borrow a line from Shakespeare's The Tempest, "What's past is prologue." I think current success does not mean all decisions made before were totally correct. But a current failure or crisis does not mean all the decisions made before were totally wrong. To sum up, a hero cannot be judged by victory or defeat. I saw an advertisement at a European airport during a business trip that said "Life is a curve, the most important is at which point of the curve you are on now", and I think that applies to a company. I am fully confident about the company's future development. I think companies or individuals should always keep calm in success or failure.Bombardier China has witnessed rapid growth in recent years. How many employees does Bombardier China currently have? How do you manage the teams and how do you retain talent?Bombardier China now has seven joint ventures and eight wholly owned subsidiaries, with about 6,000 employees. We are still hiring new people. I think one of the most important things in managing people is to let them see the potential and hope of the company and make them have a sense of belonging. Employees are the most important asset of a company. Being transparent is also important: The staff should share and understand the company's successes, challenges, difficulties and prospects. I have very demanding business requirements, but I never criticize people when they do not achieve planned results - I let them summarize their reasons to learn a lesson.Bombardier China is considered one of the leading companies in rail transportation in the country. How did it get to this trusted position?We depend on three aspects: advanced technologies, proven products and respecting commitments. We always think about what customers need most and what we could do for them. Initially, Bombardier China was not the preferred choice because the company was the last foreign company to enter China and was not recognized by Chinese customers. We don't hire any intermediate, and we directly communicate with customers to better know their needs and then introduce proper products. Reliable products and leading-edge technologies are also important. For example, we introduced successfully Bombardier's PRIMOVE technology for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games. It is an advanced contactless and catenary-free power transfer technology enabling fast automatic wireless charging for electric trams.How will Bombardier get involved in China's Belt and Road Initiative? Along with the implementation of the initiative, Chinese high-speed railway companies have started to go global. Will it affect Bombardier's overseas marketing performance?Bombardier plans to join the development of China's Belt and Road Initiative through our Sino-foreign joint ventures. We are the only foreign company in China that has joint ventures to produce whole vehicles, including high-speed passenger trains, metro cars, monorail trains, and APMs - or automated people movers. In addition, Bombardier is a world leader in the rail transportation industry, and we are willing to share with China our international experience and networks as well as world-class technology and advanced management philosophy to help Chinese companies go global. The point is not how to compete with each other, but how to achieve a win-win result with the Chinese players in international markets.Could you talk about the joint innovation and development that Bombardier China always promotes? How the future development model of China's rail transportation looks to you as a top entrepreneur in the industry?What we do now is far beyond simple technology transfer. Cooperation between Bombardier and its Chinese partners focuses on the joint upgrade of existing technologies and the joint development of new technologies. For example, the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the world's highest railway, which is 5,000 meters above sea level, was developed by one of our joint ventures - Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd. Also, we have commercialized many of our world-leading technologies in our joint ventures and will continue to do that, so we can move forward together. I think China's rail transportation business will undergo three stages: build joint ventures with foreign companies to learn technologies and experiences; its companies will begin to grow and control the Chinese markets; and Chinese and foreign companies will compete and cooperate in fully open markets, both in China and outside China. China is now at that second stage.What is the current market situation of China's business jet industry? What are its prospects?China does not have the world's largest business aircraft market now, but it has the largest potential, with the fastest annual growth rate. As China's economic situation changes, the aims of Chinese billionaires buying business jets are now also different, changing from considering the aircrafts a symbol of wealth and social status to a tool for improving efficiency. As the world's largest manufacturer of business planes, Bombardier has the most complete product portfolio to meet the needs of different users. We have the largest market share in China. To date, the company has delivered over 120 planes to Chinese consumers.What are your plans and expectations for Bombardier China's future development?My goal is to make Bombardier sustainably successful in China, which requires maintaining our competitiveness in China. I am not too concerned about what our competitors do, but I am paying more attention to whether Bombardier China is conforming to market trends. Only by closely following the market can we be invincible.Zhang Jianwei, president of Bombardier China, says the company will continue to develop in China despite growing competition in the train manufacturing market. Photos provided to China DailyFrom China Daily, Dec. 5, 2015
2015年12月14日 -
【新华网】王仲伟主任会见美国伍德罗•威尔逊国际学者中心代表团
国务院参事室主任王仲伟与原美国驻华大使芮效俭合影 2015年12月2日，国务院参事室主任王仲伟会见了以原美国驻华大使芮效俭(J. Stapleton Roy)为团长的美国伍德罗.威尔逊国际学者中心代表团一行。 王仲伟主任欢迎芮效俭一行访问国务院参事室，并祝贺双方合作举办的“一带一路背景下的中美合作国际研讨会”取得成功。他对近年来国务院参事室与基辛格中美关系研究所开展的交流与合作给予了高度评价，表示双方应继续深化合作，更深入地开展交流，为中美构建新型大国关系做出积极贡献。芮效俭感谢国务院参事室的热情接待和为筹办研讨会所做的大量工作，表示愿意继续发展和深化同国务院参事室的友好合作关系。双方还就其它共同关心的问题交换了意见。与会人员合影 国务院参事刘燕华、王辉耀，国务院参事室交流合作司司长孙维佳，美国卡内基国际和平基金会亚洲项目非常驻高级研究员方艾文(Evan Feigenbaum)，布鲁金斯学会约翰.桑顿中国中心资深研究员杜大伟(David Dollar)，美国威尔逊中心基辛格中美关系研究所所长戴博（Robert Daly）、项目专员傅珊珊(Sandy Pho)等出席会见。文章选自国务院参事网站，2015年12月7日
2015年12月10日 -
CCG专家逯高清教授将就任英国萨里大学校长
2015年12月2日，英国萨里大学（University of Surrey）宣布，CCG学术专家委员会专家逯高清（Max Lu）教授将于2016年4月就任萨里大学校长。至此，逯高清成为改革开放后中国留学生中首位出任英国排名前十大学的校长的杰出人士。 逯高清教授是世界知名学者，国际著名的材料化学专家和纳米科技领军人物，在纳米材料制备及其在清洁能源应用方面造诣深厚。逯高清教授现为澳大利亚昆士兰大学常务副校长、澳大利亚两院院士，是澳洲大学历史上首位华裔副校长。逯高清是第五代留学生中首位出任英国排名前十大学的校长，是新时期留学生中最优秀的代表之一。 萨里大学理事会主席吉姆. 格洛弗博士对这一任命评价到：“逯教授具有良好的个人、学术和领导能力，能带领萨里大学作为世界领先的教学和研究机构前进。他具备强大的领导能力和带来收入增长的可靠记录，并且有在世界排名前50机构的出色学习经历。他在英国和亚太地区有广泛的合作网络，配合他强大的国际视野，无疑将帮助萨里大学在全球范围内建立更强的声誉。” 逯教授表示：“我很荣幸被任命为萨里大学第五任校长。有机会去领导这样一所在教学、学生成果和研究领域有出色的国内和国际名望的优秀机构，是极大的特权。当前虽然对高等教育部门充满了挑战，但是也是一个令人兴奋的时期，我们有机会去重塑政府政策，以确保英国在竞争日益激烈的市场中处于领先地位。我们高等教育的核心任务是培养和训练学生的技能与信心以成为未来的领导者，驱动世界范围的积极变化，尽管社会面临许多全球挑战。”作为国内领先的新型国际化智库，中国与全球化智库（CCG）吸引了国内外一流专家学者、企业家和知名人士参与建言献策，以各类形式展开相关智库工作，并在全球范围内汇聚和组建了一支60余位具有国际化视野、政策创新能力、拥有国际一流研究成果的学术专家组成的CCG学术专家委员会，逯高清校长便是CCG学术专家委员会专家。
2015年12月7日 -
Washington-based think tanks going Chinese
With China's fast rise, think tanks in nation's capital are expanding their related work on the country, Chen Weihua reports from Washington.On Sept. 22, the day Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Seattle for his first state visit to the United States, one event in the Emerald City didn't really make any headlines.The Brookings Institution, the top-ranked think tank in the US and worldwide, inaugurated its China Council in a ceremony held at the law offices of Dorsey and Whitney in the Columbia Center building, the tallest in Seattle.The ceremony was followed by a public event at Seattle University, where some of Brookings' top China scholars, such as Jeffrey Bader, David Dollar and Cheng Li, joined Washington State's Democratic Congressman Rick Larsen, co-chair of the House US-China Working Group, and several others to explore the challenges and prospects of US-China relations.Brookings setting up its China Council is an example of a new and expanded focus going on among the close to 400 think tanks in the nation's capital: China. Simply put, the world's second-largest economy is a hot topic among the think tanks, and on an average day they put on multiple events, ranging from discussions on China's economic slowdown and its actions on climate change to tensions in the South China Sea and the newly launched Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.Brookings' China Council is designed to provide financial and intellectual support for its John L. Thornton China Center in Washington and the Brookings-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, both set up in 2006. Its founding members include more than a dozen business and opinion leaders such as former US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. John Thornton, co-chair of the Brookings' board and Qiu Yong, president of Tsinghua University, serve as honorary co-chairs.Martin Indyk, Brookings' executive vice-president and a two-time US ambassador to Israel, described the centers in Washington and Beijing as "two parallel operations that enhance each other" and a vision by Thornton.Bench of scholarsWhile saying that the Thornton center has built a "deep bench of scholars" on China, Indyk acknowledged that resources at the Tsinghua center are limited.Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center and an expert on China's low carbon policies, is now the only resident scholar while other Chinese and American scholars associated are all non-resident."We felt we really needed to build up the Brookings-Tsinghua Center as well, so this would be more like in parallel in terms of the capabilities," said Indyk, citing the growing policy issues that need to be tackled with China's rise."To do that, we decided that it makes sense to have a group of individuals, corporations, both American and Chinese, who would support the work of both centers, and who would see the value of independent research by a think tank, both for China and for United States," he said.With the launch of the China Council, the Tsinghua center plans to add three more residential scholars over the next three years, recruit two post-doctoral fellows a year, establish a regular visiting scholar program, create a new academic advisory committee and expand office space. The Thornton center will expand by forging ties with Tsinghua, launch signature forums, recruit young rising stars, establish endowed chairs, name visiting scholarships and sponsor internships.Expanding researchBrookings is not alone in expanding research on China.The Carnegie Endowment for International (CEIP) Peace, set up in 1910 and housed in a building next to Brookings on Massachusetts Avenue, was once focused on transatlantic issues and the Soviet Union. But it started to hire scholars to work on the Chinese economy, politics and strategy starting in the 1990s with China's rise."If we are going to be taken seriously as a think tank and be competitive in Washington, we have to be in the game of analyzing China as well," said Douglas Paal, vice-president for studies and director of the Asia program at CEIP.CEIP is ranked second in the US by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania, which annually publishes The Global Go To Think Tank Index Report.Paal joined CEIP in 2008 after working on China at various US government departments, from the White House and the State Department to the Central Intelligence Agency. He was an unofficial US representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan from 2002 to 2006.In 2010, CEIP launched its Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, which focuses more on issues relating to China's foreign relations, energy and climate change.The center regularly brings together Chinese and US experts for conferences. The one on China-US security cooperation held in June this year amid the growing tension in the South China Sea drew a high-caliber panel that included CEIP President William Burns, who was US deputy secretary of state until a year ago; Stephen Hadley, US National Security Advisor under President George W. Bush; Gary Roughead, chief of US Naval Operations from 2007 to 2011 as well as He Yafei, China's former vice- foreign minister and Chen Xiaogong, former vice-commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.Paal has been kept busy too, travelling frequently to China.The same trend of having a greater focus on China and all of Asia is happening at the Atlantic Council think tank, which has long focused on trans-Atlantic issues. The council is said to be debating whether to change its name after expanding its research to include Asia, Africa and Latin America. The council has quadrupled in size since Fred Kempe, a former Wall Street Journal journalist, took office in 2007 as president and CEO.Robert Manning, a senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council, said unlike Brookings, its China research is still scattered at various centers. "But it's already amazing for one that traditionally focuses on trans-Atlantic studies," said Manning, who had worked in the State Department, the National Intelligence Council and as director of Asian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.The centers on Latin America, Africa and South Asia and the programs on energy and global business and economy all conduct research relating to China.Manning's words are reflected in Washington's think tanks today.Jon Huntsman, chairman of the Atlantic Council, has encouraged the council to do more on Asia and China, according to Manning."We are trying to institutionalize ongoing Asian programs, so far I have been doing more from project to project," Manning said, adding that funding is still an issue.Joint projectsIn September 2013, the Atlantic Council and the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) jointly turned out a report after a yearlong US-China joint assessment project. The report, China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future, concluded that any hopeful global scenario can only be realized if there is close cooperation between China and the US.In a report co-written with Olin Wethington, Manning argued that the US needs a strategy for constructive engagement that leads to an inclusive and rules-based order that fosters prosperity and cooperation in Asia. "Neither US withdrawal nor aggressive containment is desirable," they wrote in the report titled Shaping the Asia-Pacific Future.Manning said he might start another project on Northeast Asia, in cooperation with the China Institute for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR).Joint research is common between US and Chinese think tanks. Paal said CEIP and the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies (CFISS) have conducted joint projects on China-US crisis management for more than 10 years, each paying their own costs.Robert Daly, director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at Wilson Center, said his institute will join the CEIP and Luo Yuan of the PLA Academy of Military Science in a new US-China Security Perceptions Survey, a poll of elite and popular opinion in the two countries on comparative hard and soft power in 2016 and beyond.While Luo has been regarded by some in the West as nationalistic and anti-American, Daly described him as "professional, collegial and a good partner."CEIP and Luo's team did a survey on the subject in 2013, but Daly said that so much has changed under President Xi that "we have to do it again".The Kissinger Institute was founded in 2008 and directed by former US ambassador to China Stapleton Roy, a highly respected expert on China and the son of a US missionary in China. Daly, who headed the Maryland China Initiative at the University of Maryland, took over in August 2013.Daly acknowledged that his institute is small compared with Brookings and CEIP, so it has to focus on things that can distinguish it from others."There is a plan that requires funding. But I would say the trend lines are good because China is such an important topic Not everyone in the Wilson Center can say that," said Daly, who, like his predecessor Roy, speaks fluent Chinese.Unlike most think tanks in Washington, the Wilson Center, which is ranked fifth among US think tanks, is housed in a wing of the Ronald Reagan Building, a federal office building. It receives about $10 million, or about a third of its annual operating fund, from a US government appropriation. Other funding comes from foundations, grants, corporations and endowments.Asked if the government money has compromised the research, Daly acknowledged it's a reasonable suspicion. "But in fact, the answer is no," he said.Non-partisan wayWhile Daly is paid by the US government, he has to raise money for his staff. "We can and we do criticize the government all the time. We have to do it in a non-partisan way," he said.In an article entitled Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks published in September 2014, The New York Times reported that the Atlantic Council has received donations from more than 25 governments outside the US since 2008.But Manning, the senior fellow there, said there is a big emphasis on intellectual independence. "If there is funding from a particular government, we design the project and it doesn't influence our outcome or view in any way," he said.Paal of CEIP also disagreed with the Times article, saying countries like Norway have no interest in buying think tanks; they just think it's more efficient to use US think tanks than starting their own.The US leads the world with 1,830 think tanks, followed by China's 429, the UK's 287, Germany's 194 and India's 192. Of the US think tanks, about 400 are in Washington and another 150 in neighboring Maryland and Virginia, all in a bid to have the maximum impact on the government, lawmakers, the news media and the public.The CEIP has an endowment in excess of $200 million that covers 50 percent of the cost, with the rest from major corporations, foundations and individuals.The Carnegie-Tsinghua Cener is also funded by CEIP alone. Paal said the CEIP does not accept money from the Chinese government, but does accept donations from Chinese individuals not associated with the government.Operation costBrookings' Indyk said of the institution's annual operation cost of $100 million, only 15 percent comes from its endowment, while the remaining 85 percent has to be raised."We are involved in a big fund-raising operation. It never stops," he said. Like most think tanks, Brookings' fund-raising comes from four sources: individuals, corporations, foundations and governments.Indyk said Brookings does not take money from the US government for research, except for conferences. He emphasized that when Brookings takes money from governments, it makes very clear to them that Brookings decides what it will research, who will do the research and what the funding will be, adding that foreign governments are very respectful of Brookings' independence.While not ruling it out in the future, Indyk said Brookings has not taken money from the Chinese government. He speculated that it might be the Chinese government which does not want to be associated with independent research they might not agree with.Indyk said Brookings has many relationships with Chinese think tanks, mostly in holding conferences but not joint research.In April 2013, President Xi made the development of think tanks a national strategic priority and called for the building of "new think tanks with Chinese characteristics."That has prompted many Chinese think tanks to seek help and cooperation from overseas partners, especially in the US and Europe.In October, as many as 15 scholars from Brookings's foreign-policy program, including experts on the Middle East, were in China. "They think it's a result of China's great engagement with the world," Indyk said.Indyk, along with his China scholars Kenneth Lieberthal and Cheng Li, was in Beijing in April 2014 for a US-China think tank summit, offering their advice to Chinese counterparts.Paal of CEIP indicated that he has been approached by 44 new think tanks in China this year, looking for advice from how to run a think tank and raise money, to hiring people and publishing."I understand, but I cannot brief every think tank. That's too much time," he said.Paal's advice is that if you want credibility as a think tank, you have to attend to basic things such as independence.Daly of the Kissinger Institute said that the level of talent in Chinese think tanks is as high as anywhere in the world. But he frowned at the concept that these think tanks should be part of China's soft power strategy. "They will not have any credibility unless they are seen as critical thinking and truly independent analysts in international terms," he said.Cheng Li, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, noted that many of the Chinese visiting scholars Brookings hosted over the years are playing a big role back in China.He believes that independence would be too high a standard set for Chinese think tanks now. While Brookings is obsessed with independence, not every US think tank is independent and some actually serve one particular party or interest group.China and Asian scholars at the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, widely regarded on the far conservative side, did not respond to China Daily's request for interviews.In Li's view, diversity is what Chinese think tanks should pursue. "Only when there is diversity, will there be different voices. When government decision-makers hear these different voices, they can make choices," he said.But Li believes there could be higher standards when there is a more open environment in the future. He has spearheaded the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series, a set of publications that introduce Chinese thinkers to English language readers.Li, widely regarded as the most prominent Chinese-American in US think tanks, said China will become a think tank giant eventually. "Sooner or later China will have its own Brookings or CEIP, but it's going to take time and it won't happen immediately," he said, adding that the Brookings-Tsinghua Center has a special role to play there.The think-tank push in ChinaWhile China is a hot topic among US think tanks, think tanks are hot in China. And the force behind it is President Xi Jinping.China has more than 400 think tanks, but only seven ranked among the top 100 worldwide in the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report.In October 2014, Xi issued a call for building of 'new think tanks with Chinese characteristics' at a meeting of the Leading Group for Overall Reform.'It should be targeted on promoting scientific and democratic decision making, promoting modernization of the country's governing system and ability, as well as strengthening China's soft power,' he said.Although think tanks in China are developing rapidly and making important contributions to reform and modernization, they have a hard time changing alongside rapid development. Currently, China lacks think tanks with great influence and international reputation, Xi said.In responding to the government's call to build 50 to 100 high-end think tanks, existing think tanks have released reform and rebuilding plans, and new think tanks have mushroomed in China, writes Yanzhong Huang in China's Think-Tank Great Leap Forward, published on Sept 28 on the website of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.'As Professor Yan Xuetong of Tsinghua University observed, nowadays 'each unit is building a think tank, and all universities are building think tanks','wrote Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council and a professor and director of global health studies at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.From China Daily, Nov. 27, 2015
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