Research Administration Bureau

Deputy Director:  DIAO Pengfei

Member: Fu Xuejun，Li Le, HUANG Lina (female) , YANG Jingjing(Female) , SONG Yu 

The main responsibilities of this office are to help the director work on research plans, supervise the implementation thereof, organize national and international academic exchanges, manage post-PhDs and overseas students, and take charge of the daily work of the Secretariat of the Chinese Sociological Association. Other duties are to collect, compile and make available the sociological literature, and to build and maintain the internet for the Institute.

The management of scientific research programs includes: application, mid-term review, collection and assessment of statistics of various programs, i.e. the Chinese Social Science Foundation programs, key CASS programs and Institute programs, commissioned programs and international co-op programs.
Foreign Academic Exchange include: examination and approval of the out-bound staff members on visiting programs; reception of overseas scholars and personnel of foreign institutions in China; application and approval of international co-op programs; and organization of international academic conferences.

Graduate training includes: admission, course scheduling, training and organization of thesis of masters, PhDs, overseas students and master degree applicants jointly trained with Shue Yan College; accepting of vocational master or PhD degree applicants; and organization and management of all training classes.

Chinese Sociological Association: daily management of the Chinese Sociological Association, Chinese Association of Social Psychology, compilation of the association newsletters, and organization of association annuals.

Information Network Center
The Information Network Center is responsible for collecting, compiling and making available the literature of and information on sociology, as well as maintaining the internet for the Institute.

The Institute of Sociology has placed the great emphasis on the work of compiling research materials since its establishment. Fei Shiao-t’ung, the first appointed director of the Institute, once put forward that “it is imperative for us to build an overall center of sociological references.” For this reason, the staff of the Center make great efforts to duplicate sociological monographs and documents published in Chinese Mainland prior to 1957.
For many years, the Center have collected and compiled many sociological papers and survey reports, all of which have been filed by categories on “the categorization table of sociological materials” and put on bookshelves of the Reading Room within the Institute. In 1989 and 1992, we established the special shelves of “‘Fukutake Tadashi’s Stack” and “‘Totoki Toshichika’s Stack”, sociological books donated by these two Japanese sociologists who had kept them cherishingly for several decade years. Furthermore, the Center has digitized the main sociological works into the “database of sociological literature”.

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Personnel Management Office

Director: LV Hongxin(female)

Members: LV Zhimin(Female), Yin Wei, Wei Xiaolei, ZHOU Qian

The main duty of this Office is to help the director with the management related to administration, finance, logistics, personnel, graduates and administrative archives, including:
Administrative Management: financial and material management in line with the state, CASS and institute-specific rules and regulations. Financial management includes: budget drafting at the beginning of a year, budget operation, settlement at the end of a year, examination and approval of daily expenses, as well as management of off-budget revenue & expenditure and project fund. Material management includes: management and maintenance of purchased fixed assets, purchase of new equipment, rejection of useless equipment, and purchase and provision of daily office supplies. It is also in charge of the fireproofing, theft proofing and traffic safety of the institute, as well as house distribution and corresponding management in cooperation with CASS Real Estate Administration.

Logistic Management: management of cars and such services as copying, typing, as well as acquiring and allocating office furniture and facilities.
Personnel Management: daily management of the employees’ salaries, personnel transfer, personal archives, as well as the collection and arrangement work, such as the set-up and profiling of administrative archives.