China News Service, Beijing, November 9 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Seventh International Symposium on Think Tank Science and Engineering was held in Beijing from November 8 to 10. The reporter learned from the meeting that the "From Evidence to Solutions: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Policy Simulation and Scenario Analysis" research plan led by researcher Pan Jiaofeng, director of the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was successfully selected for the United Nations' "International Decade of Science for Sustainable Development 2024-2033" in 2026.
This is the first artificial intelligence empowerment policy research plan initiated by Chinese scholars to enter the global scientific cooperation agenda under the framework of the United Nations, marking that China’s policy wisdom serves and contributes to global science plans.
This seminar, with the theme of "Artificial Intelligence-Driven Policy Research", was jointly sponsored by the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Strategic Consulting Center of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Pan Jiaofeng gave a keynote report titled "Artificial Intelligence-driven Public Policy Research: Paradigm Change, Theoretical Support and International Research Plans" and said that the "From Evidence to Solutions: Artificial Intelligence-driven Policy Simulation and Scenario Analysis" research plan will transform theoretical innovation and policy exploration rooted in Chinese practice and with global reference significance into verifiable, exchangeable and shareable policy knowledge, analytical tools and governance solutions, providing Chinese experience and contributing Chinese wisdom to global sustainable development and scientific public policy.
Pan Jiaofeng said that in the ten years since its establishment in 2016, the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has gone from exploration and practice to demonstration and leadership, insisting on supporting high-quality decision-making consultation with high-level academic research, and playing an important role in national macro-decision-making; it has continued to deepen the theoretical methods of think tanks, promoted theoretical and method innovation of think tanks with Chinese characteristics, and formed a trilogy of source innovation of "methods-methodology-disciplines" in practice, basically built an independent knowledge system of new think tanks with Chinese characteristics, and forged a high-quality professional think tank team.
Li Qingshan, director of the Strategic Consulting Center of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that in terms of building a national high-end think tank, in recent years, the Chinese Academy of Engineering has carried out forward-looking, targeted, and reserve research on major tasks such as building a scientific and technological power, a manufacturing power, and a smart society. It has formed a number of representative results and accumulated some experience. Among them, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the National Natural Science Foundation of China conducted strategic research on "China's Engineering Science and Technology in the Next Twenty Years", forming three rounds of progressive research results for 2030, 2035, and 2040.
Li Qingshan believes that facing the future and promoting artificial intelligence-driven policy research, it is necessary to expand the space for knowledge co-creation in international cooperation, so that the experience of think tanks in different institutional backgrounds can communicate, learn from, and cooperate in a common academic language.
