Fu Ying, director of Foreign Affairs Committee of National People's Congress, gave a speech on the opening ceremony on the topic of “Responsibility of Chinese Think Tanks in the Era”. She pointed out three main duties of the think tanks when serving for the foreign affairs: first, think tank should build positive relations with policy-making institutes with practical and realistic international programs; second, think tank should focus on the major issues that China faces on the international stage; third, think tank should stick to the public property and social responsibility and enhance the ability and consciousness to provide public products to China and even the international community. She suggested Chinese think tank introduce China’s code of conduct and principles to the world, which is good for China to carry out international responsibilities and good for the think tank to build its unique international status and image. It needs patience and endurance to develop science of international relations with Chinese characteristics and build great-power diplomacy theory of China on the basis of Chinese culture, history and politics. Her speech provided guidance to the work of GRIIS.
