Boyuan Foundation, officially approved by the Hong Kong government, is a non-profit public welfare organization with independent legal personality.

Boyuan Foundation aims at promoting academic and policy research, focusing on the medium and long-term issues in the economic, social and international relations of China. Boyuan Foundation advocates multi-disciplinary communication, and promotes the dialogue among scholars, government departments and business people with lofty ideals at home and abroad by sorting out problems, establishing a framework and seeking knowledge. Boyuan Foundation advocates innovative research mode, and is willing to build a platform for people of insight in various fields at home and abroad to explore and study major topics, and provide financial support and related services.

The activities of the Foundation include: organizing and supporting research topics, convening annual forums, organizing annual lectures and publishing monographs and essays. The foundation mainly organizes its own participation in research projects, and also provides funds to external research institutions and individuals to support projects that meet the research direction of the foundation.

The Board of Directors of Boyuan Foundation is composed of international celebrities, including Qin Xiao, Chairman of China China Merchants Group, He Di, Vice Chairman of UBS Investment Bank, Wu Xiaoling, Vice Chairman of NPC Financial and Economic Committee, Gao Xiqing, General Manager of China Investment Co., Ltd., Wang Jianxi, Deputy General Manager of China Investment Co., Ltd., and Li Jiange, Chairman of China International Capital Corporation. Scowcroft, Chairman of scowcroft Group and former US National Security Assistant; Leon Brittan, Vice Chairman of UBS and former EU Vice Chairman; Rory Tapner, former Asia-Pacific Chairman of UBS; member of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; and? Laura Cha, non-executive chairman of Feng Investment Asia Holdings Limited.

members of the advisory Committee include Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China and director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Chen Xiaolu, chairman of Standard International Investment Management Company, Yi Xiqun, chairman of Beijing Holding Group Co., Ltd., Wang Boming, director-general of China Securities Market Research and Design Center, Rodney Ward, former chairman of UBS Investment Bank in Asia, Shen Liantao, chief adviser of China Banking Regulatory Commission and former chairman of Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission, and Jin Yaoji, former president of Chinese University of Hong Kong. Liang Aishi, deputy director of the Basic Law Committee of the the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Special Administrative Region and former Secretary of Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Xu Shanda, former deputy director of State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China; Yuan Ming, vice president of Peking University Institute of International Relations; Ji Wenfeng, managing director of New World China Industrial Project Co., Ltd.

members of the academic Committee include Zhou Qiren, director of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, Wang Jisi, dean of the Peking University Institute of International Relations, Jin Guantao, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shi Zhengfu, director of the Research Center for New Economic Politics of Fudan University, Xu Xiaonian, a professor at China Europe Business School, Jonathan Anderson, head of global emerging market research at UBS, and Cao Yuanzheng, chief economist of BOC International.