Recently, the China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Center has released the 2020 CTTI Think Tank Report and the newly selected source think tanks in 2020.The Center for African Union Studies stood out from many applicants and was successfully selected into the Chinese Think Tank Index (CTTI) Source Think Tanks List.

Chinese Think Tank Index (CTTI) is a think tank data management and evaluation system developed by the China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Center at Nanjing university (CTTREC) and the Think Tank Research and Release Center of Guangming Daily (TTRRC). CTTI aims at providing a think tank construction in China with a powerful data management platform, realizing online data acquisition, sorting, storage, analysis and use of various kinds of data of think tank as well as giving data support for Chinese think tank evaluation and assessment. In addition, CTTI also establishes an online communication platform for the selected source think tanks to communicate and exchange data and information.