A high point of the 24 th International Workshop featured presentations by institute scholars in China. In this session, foreign participants learned of the vast network of policy scholarship underway, largely in Beijing and Shanghai. What follows is a brief description of the represented organizations. Each institute of the CASS is affiliated with a graduate school department, has its own Ph.D. and masters students, as well as its own library.
Financing comes from the central government and is allocated among the research institutes.
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences , as described by vice president Xuejin Zuo, is the second largest research institute in China. It represents over 900 employees, including 600 researchers, and 15 research institutes. Beyond the economic institutes, the academy also sponsors institutes of philosophy, literature, law, religion, information science, and juvenile development. Part of its funding, particularly for its population and development studies, comes from the Rockefeller Foundation. Peng Xizhe described several institutes affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, including the Institute of Population Research , Economic Research Center , and Center for European Community Studies .