The 2022 New Think Tank Governance Forum was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on 17 December 2022. The forum was co-hosted by Nanjing University and Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences, focusing on the theme of "Learning and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th Party Congress and Enhancing the Capacity of New Think Tanks to Advise and Serve". More than 700 participants were invited to attend the offline and online meetings, including experts from the national think tank community, ideological and theoretical communities, think tank leaders and media reporters. Through comprehensive selection, IIDPF was selected as one of the "China Think Tank Index (CTTI) 2022 Top 100 University Think Tanks" and awarded the CTTI2022 Top 100 Universities Grade A. Professor Sun Qunli, Deputy Director of IIDPF, Dr Liu Erpeng, Researcher, and Sun Chen, Administrative Secretary, were invited to attend the conference.
Based on CTTI's database, the China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Center of Nanjing University scores think tanks quantitatively in three aspects: Product, Activity and Impact, and also combines the subjective evaluation of think tank experts to make a comprehensive evaluation, and selects 100 outstanding university think tanks scientifically and reasonably through four dimensions. CTTI is the most authoritative think tank evaluation in China.
IIDPF is an important academic research highland and advisory and decision-making think tank of ZUEL. We build and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, propagate and implement the Party's lines, guidelines, policies and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and implement relevant resolutions and decisions as well as work deployments of the university, etc. In recent years, in order to adapt to rapid economic and social changes, changes in the main social contradictions and profound adjustments in the external environment, we have focused on the local theoretical system of income distribution and public finance, and broadened our research horizon to the global level to consider how China can adapt, lead and even reshape major realities such as income distribution and global financial rules.
CTTI's 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award for Think Tanks and the results of the Top 100 Think Tanks in Universities were announced on the same day. Think Tank Capacity Building Revenue Distribution and Public Financesubmitted by IIDPF was successfully selected for CTTI's 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award for Think Tanks.
Think Tank Capacity Building Revenue Distribution and Public Finance is a case study of think tank construction submitted by IIDPF. This case is based on the achievements of our construction over the years. It is guided by the spirit of the 20th Party Congress and reported in terms of system construction, institutional innovation and operation and management, fully reflecting Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style. A new type of think tank with Chinese characteristics is an important support for the Party and the government to make scientific, democratic and legal decisions. In the future, IIDPF will not forget ouroriginal intention and strive to highlight the role of a new type of think tank in the new journey of striving for progress.
As a co-construction and sharing unit of the CTTI, together with other think tanks of ZUEL, IIDPF won the first place in the MRPA ranking of "211" university think tanks released by the China Think Tank Index in 2016 with a score of 100. The China Resident Income and Wealth Dynamics Monitoring Database was selected as a reference case for Chinese think tanks in 2021.
This year, IIDPF was selected as one of the top 100 university think tanks in CTTI's 2022 list and was awarded the A grade and the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award for Think Tanks, indicating that IIDPF has achieved rapid development in recent years and further gained recognition and acknowledgement from the domestic community. We will not forget our original intention, and we will endeavour to accelerate the establishment of an academic highland with international influence and a high-end think tank with the ability to advocate major policies.
Introduction to IIDPF
IIDPF is a research-based institution established in November 2010 by the Institute of Social Sciences and the School of Public Finance and Taxation of ZUEL. Professor Yang Canming, President of ZUEL and one of China's leading financiers, is the Director of the Institute, with Professor Zhang Kezhong and Professor Sun Qunli as Deputy Directors and Professor Lu Yuanping as Executive Deputy Director. In December 2019, the IIDPF-based Innovation and Intelligence Base was approved by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology as a national research platform in the field of applied economics for ZUEL.
We have an interdisciplinary and international research team with excellent quality, broad vision and active thinking, and are actively involved in and expanding a number of international scientific collaborations. Renowned scholars from internationally renowned universities such as Oxford University, Cornell University and the University of Nottingham have been attracted to participate.
Since its establishment, IIDPF has published many high-quality research results in leading journals such as Social Sciences in China, Journal of Economic Researchand Management World. We have published more than 50 papers in international journals such as Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, China Economic Review, Journal of Happiness Studies, etc. A number of research results have been approved and funded at national and provincial levels. We have undertaken and completed a number of major projects commissioned by the General Office of the Central Government, the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, the Hubei Provincial Party and Government, the Hubei Provincial Political Consultative Conference, the Wuhan Municipal Party and Government, and the Hubei Provincial Department of Finance. The "Four Batches" of talents project of our Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, Research on Narrowing the Income and Wealth Distribution Gap in China, was awarded as an excellent achievement. A number of research reports authored by us have received important instructions from leaders at the provincial and ministerial levels and have been adopted in practice, creating a good social impact.
We have long delved into the following five areas: national governance and public finance systems; fiscal policy and income distribution; field experiments and fiscal policy evaluation; income and wealth inequality; and poverty.