As China has paid high attention to the construction of new-type think tanks in recent years, the construction and research of think tanks develops fast in a national scale. Considering the urgent demands emerging from think tank practice and theories, the authors, based on journal articles, dissertations and theses, newspapers papers, conference papers and monographs, systematically analyze the latest developments and trends of the think tank research and put forward countermeasures and advices to further promote the sustainable and healthy development of think tank research in China.