On June 25, 2016, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Wang Weiguang signed Memorandum on Cooperation between the two institutions in the presence of leaders of Russia and China.
On June 25, 2016, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Wang Weiguang signed Memorandum on Cooperation between the two institutions in the presence of leaders of Russia and China.
The Memorandum is intended to establish and advance sustainable academic cooperation and regular working contacts between Russian and Chinese experts engaged in preparation of practical recommendations for building efficient and mutually beneficial bilateral relations. To this end, RIAC and CASS are going to hold joint conferences, seminars and roundtables on important issues of the relationship, as well as regional and global problems.
The sides will focus on “strengthening cooperation between Russia and China as a basis of the world order and formation of a positive image of the Russian-Chinese interaction as a prerequisite for maintaining regional and international stability.”
Founded in 1977, CASS is a major Chinese think tank on political and social sciences, which works closely with the State Council of China and has as many as 90 departments and 3,000 researchers.
RIAC is a think tank for development of practical advice for Russian foreign policy agencies, which employs top Russian diplomats, academics, journalists, businesspersons and public figures. RIAC holds annual high-level conferences on Russian-Chinese relations and publishes a report monitoring the status of strategic partnership between Moscow and Beijing. RIAC is led by its President Igor Ivanov was Russian Foreign Minister in 1998-2004 and Director General Andrey Kortunov.
