The Center for China and Globalization (CCG) is a Chinese
think tank based in
Beijing. It was founded in 2008 by a committee of the Western Returned Scholars Association, an organization under the
United Front Work Department.
CCG is a member of an alliance of think tanks, coordinated by the
, that support the
Belt and Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), formerly known as One Belt One Road ( zh, link=no, 一带一路) or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 150 ...
.
Leadership
CCG was founded by
Wang Huiyao and Mable Miao Lu, scholars who are reported to have ties to the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Wang is a central committee member of the
Jiusan Society
The Jiusan Society () is one of the eight legally recognised minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.
The party's original name was "Democracy and Science Forum" on its in ...
, one of the country's
eight legally-permitted minor political parties under the direction of the CCP. Wang has also served as a
State Counselor. According to ''
The Economist'', Wang is a "something of a go-between for technocratic government ministries, Chinese entrepreneurs and foreign embassies in Beijing."
Victor Gao
Gao Zhikai (; born 1962) is a Chinese lawyer, academic and media spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is the Vice President of the Beijing based Center for China and Globalization (CCG), and Chair Professor of Soochow University. ...
is the vice president of the CCG.
Activities
CCG has participated in forums with groups such as the
Hudson Institute
The Hudson Institute is a conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporat ...
,
Paris Peace Forum, and the
China International Fair for Investment and Trade.
In July 2018, CCG was granted consultative status with the
United Nations Economic and Social Council. According to the 2020
Global Go To Think Tank Index
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) was a non-profit program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1989 to 2021. TTCSP was originally established at the Foreign Policy Research Institu ...
by the
University of Pennsylvania Think Tank and Civil Society Program (TTCSP), CCG ranked 64th of the top think tanks worldwide.
See also
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Government-organized non-governmental organization
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China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
The 11th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security, outwardly known as the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR; ; ) under an arrangement called "one institution with two names", is a set of research institutes operated ...
References
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Political and economic think tanks based in China
Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in China
Global economic research
Think tanks established in 2008
United front (China)