ABSTRACT
Reform and opening up have brought about not only high economic growth and tremendous social changes, but also significant changes in the policy decisionmaking mechanism. This indicates a shift from personal policy decision-making to collective policy decision-making and a policy decision-making process with extensive democratic participation, that is, a transition from non-transparent to transparent policy decision-making or from autarkic to open policy decision-making. Such changes reflect a good development trend, with society becoming more and more progressive, politics becoming more democratic and the public becoming more and more open. Thanks to major changes in economic development, social progress and policy decision-making processes, all kinds of think tanks have emerged. Scholars in all disciplines have actively offered their advice. So have I over the past dozens of years.
