National Policy Foundation

What National Policy Foundation does

National Policy Foundation (國家政策研究基金會, NPF) is a Taiwan-based private policy research foundation established in 2000 and widely recognized as the official think tank (智庫) of the Kuomintang (KMT) political party. NPF operates as a content publishing and convening platform: it disseminates policy commentary (國政評論), policy analysis (國政分析), policy research (國政研究), and news (最新消息) through its website npf.org.tw, which hosts more than 26,108 articles across topics including cross-strait relations, US-Taiwan-China dynamics, energy policy, ESG, housing, aging society, education, and national defense. The foundation maintains a leadership team of approximately 11 staff, including Executive Director Chang Hsien-yao (張顯耀), Vice Chairman Li Hung-yuan (李鴻源, also a National Taiwan University professor), and Convener Lin Chia-chia (林祖嘉), with additional conveners covering social welfare, environmental health, and economic policy verticals.

NPF's principal activities extend beyond publishing to convening high-level forums. It is a co-organizer of the recurring Cross-Strait Carbon Neutrality Conference (兩岸碳中和大會, now in its 4th edition) and the KMT-CPC Think Tank Forum (國共兩黨智庫論壇 / 國共論壇), the latter functioning as the NPF counterpart dialogue with the CPC Central Taiwan Work Department's Haikan Research Center (海研中心). Through these channels, NPF brokers exchanges on carbon neutrality, energy transition, AI, healthcare, tourism, and disaster prevention between Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese stakeholders, including academics, legislators, and industry participants from firms such as Delta Electronics, Winbond, and 21st Century Foundation partners.

NPF does not sell commercial products or services. Its content is distributed at no charge through its website, author syndication in major Taiwanese outlets (China Times/中時, United Daily News/聯合報, Economic Daily/經濟日報, Civil Daily/中華日報), and event-based publicity. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; as a 財團法人 (private foundation), NPF is sustained by donations, grants, party-affiliated support, and event co-sponsorship. The foundation's effectiveness is structurally tied to KMT's political positioning and to the willingness of mainland Chinese counterparts to sustain the 國共 forum track.

Name

National Policy Foundation

Legal name

國家政策研究基金會

Website

https://npf.org.tw

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Short description

National Policy Foundation (國家政策研究基金會) is a Taiwan-based private policy think tank serving as the official research arm of the Kuomintang (KMT). It publishes policy commentary and analysis across cross-strait relations, economy, energy, and social welfare, and hosts cross-strait dialogue forums.

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Product category

Policy Research Think Tank

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), International Affairs (92812)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Think Tanks, Policy Research & Public Policy Institutes (BPAGAFAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA), Public Sector & Policy Consulting (BPAHACAN)

Keywords

• Policy research think tank
• Cross-strait relations analysis
• Taiwan policy commentary
• Carbon neutrality research
• National security research

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

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Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

National Policy Foundation is a Taiwan-based private policy research think tank that publishes policy commentary, analysis, and research on domestic governance, cross-strait relations, economy, energy, social welfare, education, and environmental policy. It operates a website hosting over 26,000 articles and organizes cross-strait dialogue forums and conferences between Taiwanese and mainland Chinese stakeholders.

Product overview

National Policy Foundation (國家政策研究基金會) is a Taiwanese policy research think tank and non-profit organization associated with the Kuomintang (KMT) political party. The organization operates as a content publishing platform that disseminates policy research and commentary through article categories including 國政評論 (Policy Commentary), 國政分析 (Policy Analysis), 國政研究 (Policy Research), and 最新消息 (Latest News). It does not offer commercial technology products or services, but rather serves as a public policy research platform that publishes expert analysis on topics such as cross-strait relations, economic policy, trade negotiations, energy policy, AI development, housing policy, education, healthcare, and national defense.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• National Policy Commentary (國政評論)
• National Policy Analysis (國政分析)
• National Policy Research (國政研究)
• Latest News (最新消息)
• Cross-Strait Carbon Neutrality Conference (兩岸碳中和大會)
• Cross-Strait Exchange Cooperation Forward-looking Forum (兩岸交流合作前瞻論壇)
• Policy Symposiums and Press Conferences

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• 21st Century Foundation (財團法人二十一世紀基金會)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2026The 21st Century Foundation and National Policy Foundation co-host the 兩岸碳中和大會 (Cross-Strait Carbon Neutrality Conference), now in its 4th edition. The 2026 conference was held in Fuzhou with ~300 participants from both sides of the Strait, focusing on low-carbon green energy transition and industrial cooperation.
• Tsinghua University Cross-Strait Development Research Institute (北京清華大學兩岸發展研究院)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2026Co-organizer of the 兩岸碳中和大會 alongside the 21st Century Foundation, NPF, and other institutions. Tsinghua's institute contributes academic rigor and mainland Chinese perspective to the cross-strait dialogue on carbon neutrality and green industry cooperation.
• Tsinghua University Carbon Neutrality Research Institute (清華大學碳中和研究院)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2026Joint organizer of the 兩岸碳中和大會. The institute contributes expertise on carbon neutrality technology, carbon trading markets, and sustainable development policy, facilitating academic and technical exchange between Taiwan and Mainland Chinese researchers.
• Cross-Strait Economic and Technology Cooperation Center (海峽經濟科技合作中心)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2026Co-organizer of the 兩岸碳中和大會, providing institutional support for cross-strait economic and technology cooperation dialogue. The center facilitates industry matchmaking and policy alignment between Taiwan and Mainland Chinese enterprises.
• Taiwan Tourism Innovation Association (台灣觀光創新協會)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2026協會理事长李奇嶽博士在第四屆兩岸碳中和大會發表「低碳旅行」實務經驗，分享巴黎奧運ARO模式的低碳旅遊認證模式，並積極與大陸景區進行示範試點對接，共同推動綠色文旅商機。
• Delta Electronics (台達電子)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2026Delta Electronics Vice President 周志宏 showcased the '源網荷儲一體化能碳管理平台' at the 兩岸碳中和大會. The foundation facilitated business matchmaking between Delta and mainland industrial park developers, supporting Delta's expansion of smart energy management solutions into the mainland Chinese market.
• Zhongke Biopharmaceutical Technology (循環力量生技股份有限公司)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2026循環力量生技 presenting its 黑水虻生物分解技術 (Black Soldier Fly biological processing technology) at the conference, which converts organic waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The foundation facilitated connections with mainland environmental and renewable energy investors.
• Kuomintang (中國國民黨)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 February 2026The foundation serves as the official think tank (智庫) of the KMT. KMT Vice Chairman 蕭旭岑 (Xiao Xucen) and NPF Vice Chairman 李鴻源 co-hosted the '兩岸交流合作前瞻論壇' outcomes press conference, demonstrating the institutional link between the party and the foundation's cross-strait policy research agenda.
• Haikan Research Center (海研中心) — CPC Central Taiwan Work DepartmentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 February 2026The KMT's counterpart to NPF, representing the Chinese Communist Party in the '國共兩黨智庫論壇' (KMT-CPC Think Tank Forum). The 海研中心 is the research arm of the CPC Central Taiwan Affairs Office. The NPF-海研中心 dialogue platform is the core institutional mechanism for KMT-CPC cross-strait exchanges.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• 21st Century Foundation: Taiwan-based KMT-aligned think tank and core co-host of the Cross-Strait Carbon Neutrality Conference. Operates a structurally similar policy research and cross-strait dialogue model under the same party umbrella, with overlapping leadership and event portfolios.
• New Frontier Foundation: DPP-affiliated think tank in Taiwan producing policy commentary and analysis. Functions as the mirror-image counterpart to NPF on the political spectrum, serving similar policymaker and media audiences from an opposing ideological stance.

Broad incumbents

• Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER): One of Taiwan's largest and most established policy research institutions, covering economic, trade, and industrial policy. Although non-partisan and broader in scope, it competes with NPF for policymaker attention on economic policy research.
• Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER): Major Taiwanese economic policy think tank producing industry analysis, macro forecasts, and policy recommendations. Comparable to NPF in serving government and business audiences with applied policy research, though with greater commercial and industry focus.
• Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR): Taiwan government-affiliated defense and security policy think tank. Overlaps with NPF on national defense, cross-strait security, and US-Taiwan-China policy analysis, but operates from a government-aligned rather than opposition-aligned perspective.
• Mainland Affairs Council: Taiwan's official government body for cross-strait policy. While a regulator rather than a think tank, it commissions and consumes research on the same cross-strait relations topics that NPF publishes on, and its policy positions shape NPF's analytical agenda.
• Brookings Institution: Premier US-based policy research institution. While far larger and more international in scope, Brookings represents the global benchmark for think tank operating model — content publishing, forums, convening power — that NPF aspires to at a smaller, Taiwan-focused scale.
• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Major US bipartisan policy research organization with deep Taiwan Strait and East Asia coverage. Overlaps with NPF on US-Taiwan-China policy analysis and convenes high-level dialogues on the same geopolitical themes NPF addresses.

Emerging players

• Shanghai Institute of International Studies: Mainland Chinese think tank focused on international relations and cross-strait affairs. Participates in the Track-2 dialogue ecosystem that NPF engages in through the KMT-CPC forum, making it a counterpart institution in the same cross-strait policy research domain.

Regional players

• Taiwan Think Tank: Taiwanese policy research organization that publishes commentary on Taiwan's domestic and cross-strait policy. Operates as a smaller independent alternative in the same domestic policy commentary market, with a less partisan positioning than NPF.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

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Profiles5 records

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