China Institute for Reform and Development （CIRD）， established
on November 1， 1991， is research institution mainly specializing in
reform and development policy research. CIRD， with the mission of
facilitating China's economic reform and development policy
decision-making， follows the guideline of "basing itself in Hainan，
facing the whole country and marching towards the world." ClRD
practices a system of vesting the full responsibility with the
president under the leadership of the board of directors and
adheres to the operating mechanism characterized with small
organization with a large network. Its organizational features of
being network-based， international operations and independent
research have attracted wide attention. With taking facilitation of
reform policy decision-making its bounden duty， ClRD has been
conducting forward-looking and independent research in important
theoretical and practical issues in economic transition. In the
past 20 years， it has submitted more than 140 sets of reform
policy/legislation recommendation reports to relevant departments
of the central government. It is the first research institution to
have submitted reform policy recommendations on "granting long-
term and guaranteed land use rights for farmers，" "equalizing
access to basic public services，" "construction of public service
-oriented government" and "speeding up the establishment of a
socialist public service system，" of which some have been directly
adopted into policy documents while many others have been used as
references for drafting policy documents， laws and regulations. For
these research results， CIRD has won many national academic awards
including "Five One Project Award，" "Economics Research Award by
Sun Yefang Economics Foundation，" and "China Development Research
Award."
