Dear Visitors:

First of all, a warm welcome to your visit to the website of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). In the era of transcending the constraints of both times and spaces, a mere touch on the keyboard would realize our ancestors' dream of “Scholars know the world's developments without leaving their houses”. With the ever deepening of the on-going globalization, the whole international society is striving to build up a better world and pooling all the wisdom of mankind to meet the transnational challenges. The SIIS, one of the three major think tanks of the Chinese diplomacy and security community, is also going all out to shoulder this historical task.

This website is an important window through which the SIIS shows its public goods to the world in the fields of thoughts and academia. This website also provides timely academic exchanges, research findings by the SIIS colleagues, simultaneous interpretation of major strategies and policies both at home and abroad, and the recent progresses of our think tank works in a comprehensive way.

This website is an important platform by which the SIIS researchers discuss and complement each other the subjects of common interests. The world is a congregate entity, therefore, our study needs to delve into every country and domain as well as analyzing all dimensions in an integrated way. Internet turns this aspiration into a reality by offering an important means to promote international studies in an in-depth and all-round way throughout the world.

This website is an important linkage between numerous people concerning about global affairs and us. All embracing and extremely complicated are our concerns: from national security to social issues, from economic interdependence to civilization dialogue, from climate change to counter-terrorism, and the rise and fall of great powers as well as international systems. However, our target is simple and consistent, i.e., to pursue for peace, development, cooperation and harmony in a world full of turbulences and challenges.

Helps have been pouring from all parts of the world ever since the setting up of this website. While efforts are being made for continuous improvement, we are expecting more of your supports. But in the final analysis, websites are not ends but means. Our world is not only virtual but also real. Observing international relations requires us to move out of the study rooms and go into the reality. Analyzing states' diplomacy asks us both summarizing the past and looking forward to the future. Researching on international studies rejects bias and requires multi-dimensional synthesis. We are expecting more personal exchanges, international communication and global interaction.

Having encountered on internet, we are looking forward to meeting you in person. You are welcome to witness with your eyes the historical leaps and bounds in Shanghai , to listen by your ears to the symphonic sounds of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, to share on the spots the benefits and happiness resulting from the interaction between China and the world.