The media and think tanks in China: The construction and propagation of a think tank

With China's rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received increasing attention from politicians academics, mostly due to the achievements of academic processing policies. Recently, collaborations between media become increasingly tight. This article aims explore tank industry their relationship with by interviewing two members staff one China’s most prominent observing Institute for six months. study has found that close government media. The traditional Chinese Confucian culture "bureaucracy-oriented tradition" significant role tanks' political behavior. leads play being an advocate government. Although social media, some extent, liberalizes work style tanks, use still follows logic facilitate government's interests. Overall, argues show features “Government-lead non-governmental organization" semi-official identity complement official authorities.