HOW THE CEE CITIZENS VIEW CHINA’S DEVELOPMENT IN 2018

Preface

The China-CEE Institute launched its first polling project in the fall of 2017, which conducted an extensive survey on how the citizens of 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe viewed China’s development. The survey was conducted in cooperation with professional polling agencies through tendering, with 1000 questionnaires per country and a total of 16,000 questionnaires. The relevant result as a book, entitled How the CEE Citizens View China’s Development (2017), was published in English by the China-Central and Eastern European (China-CEE) Institute. The Chinese version was published in China by the Chinese Social Science Press in 2018.

In the fall of 2018, the China-CEE Institute launched a second polling project, expanding the coverage of the survey from 16 countries to 18 countries, not only in the 16 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Greece and Belarus. Similarly, through the bidding method, in cooperation with professional polling agencies, the same sampling method is used, with 1000 questionnaires in each country, and a total of 18,000 questionnaires. This report is the result of the 2018 poll. In addition to analyzing the views of the public in 2018, it also has a comparison with the results of the 2017 poll. The China-CEE Institute plans to gradually accumulate a database through the annual polling project and observe changes in the perceptions on China’s development in Central and Eastern European countries.

The China-CEE Institute, registered as a non-profit limited company in Budapest, Hungary, was established by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in April 2017. The China-CEE Institute builds ties and strengthens partnerships with academic institutions and think tanks in Hungary, Central and Eastern European countries, as well as other parts of Europe. The China-CEE Institute aims to encourage scholars and researchers to carry out joint researches, field studies, to organize seminars and lecture series, to hold some training programs for younger students, and make publications, etc.