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CIDEG will conduct policy research, academic exchanges, graduate education, and practitioner research in the areas of system transition and cooperative development, policies on resources and the environment and for sustainable development, and industrial organization/regulation policy in an attempt to further increase the level of research and education in Chinese public policy and governance. Furthermore, it plans to promote exchanges between academia, industry, the public sector and NGOs in China, Japan and other countries to foster understanding and cooperation, in addition to holding a variety of academic seminars and international symposia. Some of the CIDEG board members include Mr. Chen Qing Tai, Dean of the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management, Mr. Wu Jinglian, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council of the P.R.C., Mr. Masahiko Aoki, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, Mr. Yingyi Qian, professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Economics, and Mr. Takahiro Fujimoto, professor at Tokyo University. TMC has pledged to contribute an annual amount of six million yuan RMB (approx. 80 million yen), for a total of 30 million yuan RMB (approx. 400 million yen) over a period of five years. Meanwhile, TMC will respect the independence of the education and research to be carried out at CIDEG and will not interfere in academic activities. *Tsinghua University is one of China’s principal general universities. Its School of Public Policy and Management was established in 2000 as an academic institution that carries out education and research in public administration. With over 30 professors and approximately 600 M.A. and PhD. candidates, it holds the role of educating a large pool of human resources needed by China to work in public administration. The school has also published numerous academic papers and theses, and has provided consultation regarding major public policy.  | ||||||
