[2]: 87 In 1979, CASS Vice President Huan Xiang led the first Chinese delegation of social scientists to travel to the United States.

[3] In 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported that a deputy director of CASS' Institute of Economics, Hengpeng Zhu, was detained and removed from his position after criticizing Xi Jinping's management of the national economy in a private WeChat group.

[13][non-primary source needed] The Institute of Taiwan Studies at CASS is under the control of the Fifteenth Bureau of the Ministry of State Security.

[17][18] The China Social Sciences Press was established in June 1978 under the auspices of the CASS,[19] and has published over 8,000 books since its inception.

[21] According to Chen Daoyin, a former professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, CASS "is not so much an academic institution but a body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership.