China Institute for Reform and Development

China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD), established on November 1,1991, is a research institution focusing on reform and development policy research.

Reform Research

Taking “recommending on China reform” as its bounden duty, CIRD has dedicated itself to independent, objective and forward-looking research around important, difficult and hot reform topics, and has made great efforts to facilitate reform policy decision-making by submitting research and policy recommendation reports to relevant policy-making bodies. It has also organized various academic activities including International Forum on China Reform and regular workshops on special topics of China’s reforms.

Policy Consulting

Equally dedicated to reform consulting services for the central and provincial governments, CIRD has been commissioned with various reform consulting projects commissioned by a number of ministries and provincial-level governments.

International Cooperation

With the support of the government, CIRD has played a marked role in promoting academic exchanges on reform between China and other countries/ regions’ think tanks by implementing a large number of multilateral and bilateral international cooperation projects, and has established academic exchange relations with research institutions of more than 30 countries/regions’ think tanks.

Education & Training

As one of the first national training bases for China’s economic system reform, CIRD has devoted itself to training reform specialists with an international outlook. It has offered many training and education programs such as tailor-made reform training programs for government officials, executive programs for senior business managers, Ph. D program in reform research, MBA and MPA programs.

Publication & Dissemination

Besides publishing annual reports on China’s reforms every year, CIRD has published more than 410 volumes of reform research publications. It has also been running a specialized website “chinareform.org.cn”, which has become an important platform offering reform updates and promoting online discussions of reforms.