Contemporary International Relations was founded in 1981 and is a journal supervised and sponsored by the China Institute of Modern International Relations. The main columns include international comprehensive, international relations, celebrity reviews, construction references, current affairs tracking, theoretical discussions, etc.
Contemporary International Relations is a source journal for the CSSCI Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (2019-2020) and Peking University's "Overview of Chinese Core Journals". It is also included in the China Knowledge Resource Database (CNKI) and Wanfang Database.