China Policy Journal Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2019 | Page 34

Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks’ Policy Influence
SIIS-sponsored meetings joined by business interests
(including industries, commerce, finance and banking) as
keynote speakers
SIIS-sponsored meetings joined by scholars from other
Chinese think tanks and universities as keynote speakers
SIIS-sponsored meetings joined by (Chinese or Foreign)
Media and Press Professionals as Discussants
Number 9 2 3 1
Participatory rate 75% 40% 10.3% 1.1%
Number 12 2 4 20 2 3
Participatory rate 100% 66.7% 80% 69% 18.2% 3.3%
Number 4 1
Participatory rate 2.7% 3.4%
SIIS-sponsored
meetings joined
by foreigners as
keynote speakers
Total
From foreign embassies and
consulates stationed in China
From foreign policymaking
institutions, who visited China
From foreign think tanks and
universities
Number 4 2 1 3 2 17
Participatory rate 33.3% 66.7% 20% 10.3% 18.2% 18.9%
Number 7 2 1 4 1 13
Participatory rate 58.3% 66.7% 20% 13.8% 9.1% 14.4%
Number 7 5 8 1 45
Participatory rate 58.3% 100% 27.6% 9.1% 50%
Total number of each type 12 3 5 29 11 90
% of this type to the total 144 SIIS meetings on BRI issues 8.3% 2% 3.47% 20.1% 7.6% 62.5%
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Every meeting may have many participants from each category of those social and political groups identified on the left column of this table. Besides,
some meetings may indicate features of both the type of regular dialogue and some other type outlined in Table 3, so it may be categorized
into two types concurrently. This means that it is inevitable to make overlapped calculation on the numbers of meetings along different lines of
this table. Therefore, it makes no sense to vertically or horizontally total the numbers in this table.
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