ABSTRACT
On February 14, 1989, the China Development Institute (CDI) was established in Shenzhen Science Museum. The year 1989 was the critical period in China’s reform and opening up process. The CDI emerged as a pilot of reform and became “the ‘pioneer’ among China’s research and consulting institutions to first attempt the market-oriented operation.”1 It set the international model of a single government-sponsored background, nongovernmental posture, showing a unique style of think tanks in China.
