On June 17, 2018, the "2018 Annual China Global Think Tank Innovation Forum" was held in Beijing. This year's forum was co-hosted by Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tank and Civil Society Program (TTCSP), in partnership with Shanghai Social Sciences Academy's Center for Think Tank Studies and Nanjing University's Center for Chinese Think Tank Research and Assessment. It is the 3rd Global Think Tank Innovation Forum organized by CCG. This year's annual conference took the theme of "think tank innovation in a globalized era of acceleration and differentiation", with nearly 50 seminar speakers including the heads of national ministries and commissions, directors of the top international think tanks, foreign ambassadors to China, and more than 200 representatives from more than 10 countries and international organizations and more than 100 think tanks attended the event, exchanging ideas around the most pressing issues facing today's think tanks, and actively exploring forward-looking and innovative solutions. Professor Tu Xinquan was invited to attend the conference and expressed his views on issues related to the construction of university think tanks.