On the morning of January 10, 2024, Stephen S. Roach, a Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center of Yale Law School, visited the China Institute of Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS). He delivered a speech titled "False Narratives in a World Prone to Conflict" and engaged in dialogue with relevant researchers.

Today, confronted with a weak global recovery and escalating geopolitical conflicts, humanity has once again come to a crossroads in history. It is all the more important that countries work together to meet various global challenges, promote common development, and improve the well-being of humanity, Xi said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on December 2 sent a congratulatory letter to the 2023 Understanding China Conference (Guangzhou) held in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province.

The 2023 Understanding China Conference (Guangzhou) to be held, with the blessing of the central Party and State authorities.

To help the international community understand China in the new era, China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS), in collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery, has launched a documentary series titled “An Exchange on China”

On November 8, 2023, Chairperson Xu Weixin met with Mr. Laksana Tri Handoko, Chairman of Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening practical cooperation between the two institutions and reached many common understandings.

On the morning of November 7, 2023, the Inter-Civilizational Communication and Global Development Forum, held by the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance), opened in Beijing. Founding Chairman Zheng Bijian attended the forum upon invitation and delivered a keynote speech entitled “Achieving Through Inter-Civilization Exchanges A Modernization Befitting Our Own History and Culture”.

On July 24th, 2023, Vice Chairman and Secretary General Wang Boyong met with Mr. Mustafa Hyder Saye, Executive Director of Pakistan-China Institute（PCI）at CIIDS.

Zheng Bijian, the Founding Chairman of the CIIDS, met with Peter Tan, the new Singaporean ambassador to China in Beijing on July 12, 2023.

On the morning of July 5 (Beijing Time), a prominent delegation of seven parliamentarians led by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman of the Pakistan Senate Defence Committee and Founder Chairman of Pakistan-China Institute (PCI) arrived in Beijing