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New Policy Stresses: Think Tanks Must Serve Party

In recent years, the Xi administration has repeatedly announced its intention to “strengthen the construction of new types of think tanks with Chinese characteristics and establish and complete a policymaking consultancy system” as “an important support for scientific, democratic and lawful policymaking by the Party and the government.” In an overview of the existing landscape in 2014, The Economist commented that “the Western notion of think-tanks as a government�