State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan Arslan Koichiev met with Gao Xiang, President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), who heads one of China’s leading think tanks. According to the press service of the Presidential Administration, the parties discussed prospects for cooperation between think tanks and the academic community of Kyrgyzstan and China, as well as interaction between historians of the two countries. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is China’s leading national research and analysis center in the social sciences and humanities. The Academy comprises dozens of research institutes and think tanks, focusing on history, economics, international relations, politics, and law. Gao Xiang is the President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a renowned Chinese historian.