Xinhua Institute, the think tank of Xinhua News Agency released a series of research reports to global audience in 2025. We have compiled them here for reference by all sectors.
1. Promoting the Development and Progress of Human Civilization through Exchange and Mutual Learning
The report emphasizes the importance of fostering coexistence and promoting the shared prosperity of global civilizations. China has been stepping up efforts to promote the inheritance and innovation of world civilization, sharing its experience in the protection, inheritance and utilization of cultural heritage with the world.
2. RCEP and the Vision of the Maritime Silk Road: New Frontiers for China-ASEAN Cooperation
The report was released in the Malaysian capital by Xinhua Institute.The report analyzing the opportunities for cooperation between China and ASEAN under the two frameworks of RCEP and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and putting forward the vision of working toward a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future.
3. Making the South China Sea a Sea of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation: China's Actions
The report highlights four core principles underlying China's vision for transforming the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship, and cooperation: equal-footed consultation, rule-based co-management, mutually-beneficial cooperation, and fulfillment of a constructive role. The collaborative achievements between China and ASEAN countries clearly show that dialogue can overcome any obstacle, and cooperation can fulfill any aspiration.
4. Exploring Financial Development with Chinese Characteristics: Xi Jinping's Practices in Fujian
The report traces Xi Jinping's exploration of the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics when working in east China's Fujian Province, and also reveals how the Chinese practices can contribute to the world by inspiring other countries in terms of financial governance.
5. Championing the China-Central Asia Spirit: Achievements, Opportunities and Prospects for Regional Cooperation
The report said China and Central Asian countries have deepened their comprehensive cooperation, yielding successful outcomes across a broad spectrum, Seven key areas have witnessed tremendous results in ties: economic and trade exchanges, infrastructure connectivity, energy collaboration, emerging sectors, development capacity building, mutual learning among civilizations, and peace and security.
6. Striving for a Better Life for the People: China's Practical and Theoretical Innovations in Consolidating and Expanding Poverty Alleviation Achievement
The report was officially launched in Chinese and English versions concurrently during the Global Civilizations Dialogue Ministerial Meeting. Consisting of five chapters, the research report introduces China's new missions after its eradication of absolute poverty, as well as its theoretical and practical innovations in poverty reduction and international cooperation in this field.
7. BRICS Cooperation: Advancing the Collective Progress of the Global South
The report offers a thorough overview of the evolution of BRICS cooperation, systematically highlighting its major accomplishments and contemporary significance.It presents a meaningful path for countries of the Global South to pursue shared prosperity in an increasingly complex international environment, and underscores the strong sense of responsibility and leadership shown by BRICS nations as frontrunners of the Global South.
8. Upholding Cultural Subjectivity Amid the Dynamic Interplay of World Cultures: The Spiritual Cornerstone of China's Path to Modernization
The report emphasizes the importance of upholding cultural subjectivity. Moving from a world where "each appreciates its own beauty" to one where "all share in the beauty of others," cultural subjectivity strengthens the spiritual cornerstone for engagement, exchange and integration among diverse cultures, collectively creating a bright future of peaceful development for human civilization, according to the report.
9. In Joint Stewardship of the Treasures of Human Civilization: China's Philosophy and Practice of Cultural Heritage Protection in the New Era
The report noted that Chinese civilization always enshrines appreciation of mutual understanding and respect among different cultures.The think tank also called for implementing the Global Civilization Initiative that China has put forward -- urging joint efforts from different countries to safeguard the shared cultural heritage of humankind and uphold the diversity of world civilizations, with an inclusive and broad mind.
10. Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains for Beautiful China and World—China's Ecological Civilization Concept and Practice, and How They Inspire the World
The report provides a detailed introduction of the historical background, core views, and great significance of the Chinese concept "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," and expounds on the concept's theoretical innovation, its practices in China, and its global value.
11. Making the South China Sea a Sea of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation: China's Actions
The report stated that China has always adhered to the principles of building the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship, and cooperation: equal-footed consultation, rule-based co-management, mutually beneficial cooperation, and a constructive role. The report called on China and ASEAN countries to ensure that the solutions of the South China Sea issues remain in their own hands, to adhere to sound principles and direction in addressing the issues, and to continue upholding the notion of a maritime community with a shared future.
12. Incitement, Threats, and Lies -- The Truth about External Forces Interfering in the South China Sea Issue
The report emphasizes that the United States and its allies have provided strategic counsel and support to claimant states such as the Philippines and Vietnam, in their provocations and confrontations against China. The report also emphasizes the attempts of the United States and its Western allies to reshape China's regional security environment by frequently meddling in the South China Sea issue, effectively turning it into a strategic chessboard for their "great power rivalry" against China.
13. Remembering History and Defending Justice -- Great Contributions of the Main Battlefield in the East of the World Anti-Fascist War
The report underlines the great significance and contributions of the Chinese people's resistance against Japanese aggression to the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, urges all peace-loving and justice-upholding people worldwide to stand united, stay vigilant against any resurgence of fascism and militarism, and resolutely oppose dragging humanity into the tragedy of war once again.
14. Answering the Questions of Our Time: The Global Significance and Practical Value of China's Public Intellectual Goods
The report said China has steadily increased the supply of global public intellectual goods, gradually building a system that encompasses dimensions such as international order, national development, and shared human values.It noted that defined by three key theoretical attributes -- scientific, open, and progressive -- China's global public intellectual goods are destined to usher in a broader and more magnificent future for human development.
15. Colonization of the Mind—The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of U.S. Cognitive Warfare
The report, released during the Global South Media and Think Tank Forum 2025, called on all countries, especially those in the Global South, to break off the shackles of mind, regain cultural confidence, and draw a diverse map of civilizations. The colonization of the mind, it said, constitutes mental domination predicated on inequality and aimed at perpetuating inequality, mainly manifested in the forms of compulsory transformation, malicious manipulation, covert infiltration and long-term erosion.
16. A Mighty River That Nourishes a Great Nation -- Achievements, Insights, and Global Significance of Yangtze River Governance in the New Era
The report indicates that the practical action China has taken in the governance of the Yangtze River dismantles the discourse of "ecological fundamentalism" constructed by Western countries, offering developing nations an alternative to the old paths of polluting first and cleaning up later, or of prioritizing growth over ecology.
17. Theory on the Development of Civilizations -- Building a New Vision of Civilizations with Development at the Core
The report describes the theory as a new civilizational perspective centered on the right to development, noting that it is rooted in the genetic foundation of Chinese civilization and draws on the practices of the Chinese path to modernization. The theory's core breakthrough, according to the report, lies in viewing modernization as a historical process of civilizational self-renewal rather than a simple replication of a specific civilizational paradigm.
18. Harmony Between Tradition and Modernity: Rural Development and Cultural Inheritance in China's Xizang
The three-chapter report provides a comprehensive introduction to the significant achievements of integrated pathways, along with experiences and insights from rural development and cultural inheritance in Xizang. The report highlighted that value orientation rooted in respect for tradition, a development philosophy centered on human rights protection, and a goal orientation toward comprehensive and coordinated development are the three most important experiences and insights drawn from successful practice in Xizang.
19. The Critical Stage toward Basically Realizing Chinese Modernization -- Strategic Blueprint for China's Economic and Social Development in the 15th Five-Year Plan Period
The report summarizes the major achievements in economic and social development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) and outlines the strategic plans for economic and social development for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. According to the report, China's development trajectory during the 14th Five-Year Plan period has been truly momentous and extraordinary. This marks a solid and powerful stride forward on the great journey toward building a modern socialist country in all respects.
20. Jointly Building a New Model of Global Leadership -- Work Together in Pursuit of a More Just and Rational Global Governance System
The report hightlights that the international community urgently needs a "new model of global leadership," one that does not emanate from any single country, bloc or international organization, but rather represents a multilateral form of leadership -- a synergy forged by the international community in active response to global challenges.
21. Harnessing Rivers for National Prosperity, Public Wellbeing -- A Study on the New Era River Strategy
According to the report, China has carried out extensive cooperation with United Nations agencies in water resources, shared advances in global water-science research, and joined hands with countries and regions worldwide to address growing water challenges, adding that the country will continue to take concrete steps to advance water-related goals under the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
22. Joining Hands to Advance Toward an Eco-Friendly Modernization -- The Theoretical Contributions and Practical Leadership of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization To Global Sustainable Development
According to the report,the formation and development of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization have contributed Chinese wisdom and solutions to the global sustainable development predicament. The thought offers a brand-new vision about making strides toward an eco-friendly modernization, and will surely guide human society in striding confidently toward a clean, beautiful, and prosperous future.
23. New Era County Economics
The report noted that in the current era, when economic globalization and regional economic integration are increasingly intertwined, county economies and open economies are no longer distant parallel tracks but are interwoven, collectively painting a dynamic picture of socioeconomic development.
