Founded in 1960, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) is a government-affiliated high-caliber think tank dedicated to counseling  government decision-making by conducting policy-relevant studies in international relations and China’s diplomacy. SIIS also aims to help bolster mutual understanding between China and international community by maintaining intensive and extensive exchanges and cooperation with think tanks, research organizations and institutions of higher education in China and around the world. For years, SIIS has been ranked as one of the most influential think tanks in international studies and foreign policy in China.

　　SIIS comprises six institutes and six research centers, namely, the institute for international strategic studies, institute for global governance studies, institute for foreign policy studies, institute for world economic studies, institute for comparative politics and public policy, institute for Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macao Studies, center for American studies, center for Asia-Pacific Studies, center for Russian and Central Asian Studies, center for West Asian and African studies, center for European studies, and center for maritime and polar studies. SIIS has also set up eight in-house research platforms: the center for the study of Chinese diplomatic theory and practice, center for world politics and political parties, center for China-South Asia cooperation, center for BRI and Shanghai studies, center for China-Japan relations studies, center for international cyber governance (in partnership with the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission), research base on people’s diplomacy of Shanghai (in partnership with the Shanghai People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries). SIIS has also launched a center for international communications to help strengthen Chinese think tanks’ international standing.

　　The two flagship publications of SIIS, Global Review (bimonthly and in Chinese) and China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies have become prominent scholarly journals at home and abroad.

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