Yuan Yue summed up the gap between China think tanks and international think tanks from a practical point of view: 1. Individualization. Second, the source of funds is single. Third, there is a serious shortage of human resources.
Anbang Consulting Group, established at the same time as Zero Survey Group, is also a private information consulting company, which also plays the role of a think tank to some extent. Among the 30 information products it has launched for a long time, its customers include CSRC, CBRC, CIRC and more than 4,000 enterprises, including 1/3 Fortune 500 enterprises.
He Jun, a researcher and current chief analyst from the Ministry of Science and Technology 1998 to Anbang, said: "I watched the rise and fall of information consulting companies in five or six years." He used a metaphor to describe the status quo of China think tanks-"a sack of potatoes", "much smaller, little bigger, and lacking professionalism".
At present, Anbang Group has become the "pricing benchmark" of the whole industry, and when he went to this company, he worked in the old building of a motorcade in Cheng Nan. The development from a small company to a "strategic information integrated service provider" can be described as a microcosm of the development of the think tank industry, with seven branches distributed throughout the country.
In the book Policy Thinking written by He Jun, a large number of cases are disclosed. He is characterized by rapid early warning, professional analysis and strategic response to changes in the current situation. In May 2007, he gave an early warning to customers in the briefing; An article entitled "The Timing and Process of RMB Free Exchange" was placed on the desks of the Central Bank and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange as early as 2002. When Sino-American relations were close to freezing point, he accurately made the judgment of "separation of politics and economy".
China government has many information transmission channels, so why do we need an outside company like Anbang? "We are opinion leaders in the industry." He Jun said this. Like Beijing municipal government, it has been their 10 partner for many years.
The IQ of a country is not determined by the sum of human brains. On the contrary, the intelligence level, talent advantage and development scale of think tanks determine a country's IQ. If the government is the brain of the country, the think tank is the cerebellum to maintain the balance of the pattern. The government is the left brain of the country and is in charge of rational construction; Think tanks are right-brained, focusing on thinking in images and providing prediction and imagination.
Unfortunately, as China people, we still dare not evaluate our think tanks.