国际发展研究中心旨在运用中国视角探讨国际发展问题；为广大学者、决策层、实践工作者提供一个分享国际发展领域相关理论与实践知识以及最新的国际发展动态的开放的平台。其主要任务侧重于：

       --在全球发展背景下，运用比较分析的方法深入探讨中国的发展转型问题；

       --将其他发展工作者在国际发展领域中获得的经验和教训介绍给中国的学界和政策界，达成共识，并共同致力于减少全球贫困，实现可持续发展；

       --研究中国对外援助政策与实践，并将成果传达给国际发展社会，提出有关中国国际发展的政策建议；

       --参加中国在其它发展国家的国际发展项目，为进一步的研究积累实践经验；  

Mission 

The RCID’s mission is to generate and disseminate knowledge, as well as to inspire and inform policy makers of practices in international development from a Chinese perspective. The research center will be an open platform for scholars, policy makers and practitioners to share knowledge and information, and engage in au courant debates on international development. 

In particular, the RCID focuses on: 

• Understanding China’s developmental transformation within the context of global development, gleaned through comprehensive comparative analyses;  

• Compiling the experience and lessons acquired from other key players in international development, and introducing relevant information to China’s academic and administrative communities with the goal of fostering common understanding and making a joint effort to reduce global poverty and attain sustainable development;  

• Studying China’s foreign aid policy and practices to foster a more informed understanding among members of the international development community, and helping the Chinese government to improve its international developmental policy;  

• Taking part in China’s international development program in other developing countries to gain practical experience for research.