RAND Corporation’s Development Experiences And Its Revelations To The Construction Of Chinese Think Tank

Think-tank, is called the fourth power of the organization to western countries, it is independent of the government, interest groups and political parties, policy research as the core, for the purpose of directly or indirectly influence the government policy, independent public research institutions. America has the world’s largest think-tank, both from the level of research and organization form has been quite mature.The Rand Corporation is a famous think-tank and expert in comprehensive and predictive strategy research, is also the main consultancy toward China for America government. Rand Corporation assess the situation, pay attention to the international hot spots, stay closely with the government, and attaches great importance to the scientific methods, maintain independence thinking, etc. These characteristics make the Rand Corporation enjoys a high reputation. It is typical of the contract type think-tank, is largely constrained by the U.S. government, its research results mainly adopts research report can be submitted directly to the government agencies, rarely release to the general public, which is a little similar with the present domestic think-tank,especially official think-tank. We can absorb the rand corporation in this context of how to maintain independence, how to develop successful policy, how to improve the successful experience of influence, etc. At present the research to the rand corporation is still inadequate and the existing research results rarely involves the process of public policy of it in American.Under the current complicated situation at home and abroad, various problems and contradictions is emerging. To obtain further development in China, our government is need of building socialism with Chinese characteristics think-tank urgently. The new government generally pragmatic, pay attention to the decision-making behavior of science, encouraging civil organization construction, and this will be the best time to born the Chinese Rand Corporation. This paper briefly describes the rand corporation background, focus on analysis of the rand corporation participate in American public policy, We need to learn lessons of Rand successful experience, discusses the construction of Chinese characteristics think-tank, find a path which is suitable for China’s domestic system and national conditions.