Chinese social studies seek greater involvement in global network

New plan to fund publication of key texts, academic communication

BEIJING - China is taking measures to increase its influence in global social sciences, a senior Party publicity official said at a news conference on Thursday.

Wang Xiaohui, deputy director and spokesman for the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the country has little global influence at present, but it has started to fund translations of outstanding works on social sciences into foreign languages and publish them overseas.