The Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences is the highest academic institution and a comprehensive
research center for the social sciences in China. The Academy has
more than 30 research institutes and some research centers. It has
a galaxy of experts and scholars specializing in various fields,
and some 4,000 research, editing and translation personnel, of whom
nearly 200 are tutors of doctoral candidates.
In recent years, local research
institutions in the social sciences have expanded their activities
considerably. Research institutions in the social sciences of different
sizes have been established in various provinces, autonomous regions
and municipalities.
The various departments of the
social sciences and the humanities in the institutions of higher
learning are important research bases for the social sciences in
China. They employ more than 60,000 teachers, of whom many do research
work in addition to teaching. Besides, there are many special research
institutes attached to the institutions of higher learning. There
are about 130 institutes concerned with the social sciences in China,
employing more than 4,000 professional researchers.
Furthermore, the governmental
departments at various levels, Party schools, military colleges
and universities, cadre schools, enterprises and institutions also
have some smaller-scale social science research organizations and
personnel, a by no means negligible research force.
Centering on the establishment
of socialist theory and a socialist market economy with Chinese
characteristics, Chinese social science workers have conducted research
in depth, proceeding from combining theory with practice, and attained
many useful achievements. Breakthroughs have been made in forecasts
of the national economy and social development, and suggestions
have been put forward for solving the theoretical and practical
problems in the building of democracy and the legal system. Prominent
achievements have been made in basic research, and a batch of treatises
of a high academic level have been published.
