Abstract: Professional Think Tank Research, written by Wang Shiwei, reveals the innovative development path of professional think tanks from the endogenous motivation and exogenous environment, and provides guidance for social science research and its researchers to raise their voice in scientific decision-making. It summarizes six major features of think tanks, including smart strategies and planning, profound academic skills, intelligence analysis capabilities and practices, frontier technology applications, publicity and policy education, prospective and predictive research. These criteria can also be used to evaluate social science researchers, and promote the healthy development of the professional teams.