The mission of the Research Institute of Social Sciences is to train promising world-class scholars who are boundlessly loyal to the Party and the leader and able to play a leading and central role in conducting interdisciplinary research and creating new fields of study of world class as well as in carrying out a state-assigned research.
The institute is a research center and a training center for talented scientists who are capable of creating and developing cutting-edge and interdisciplinary areas of study in the fields of social science.
It admits promising scholars under 45 who hold a Ph. D. degree or finished their doctoral thesis and those who are engaged in cutting-edge research and creating new fields of science as well as those engaged in research of national and international significance.
It trains scholars for 3-5 years.
The mode of training involves providing academic guidance by scholars from
So far, it has trained some 60 world-known scholars since March 2001.
It also has correspondence course for overseas compatriots and foreigners.