燕山大学于2019年，建设国内外首家东北亚古丝路文明研究中心。研究中心侧重开展东北亚古丝路文明学术研究，产出重大学术成果和智库成果；依托对校内资源的整合，以及与沿线部分省区科研机构联办研究所，开展“东北亚古丝路城站驿路、海疆与海权、地缘政治和国际关系、东北亚民族民俗、东北亚丝路文化与艺术、文献编译”等领域的研究。博物馆瞄准国内外行业前沿，发挥展陈、收藏、交流、宣传、教育作用，专题陈列东北亚古丝路沿线诸民族文物，开展田野考古调查与研究。研究中心和博物馆相辅相成，共同服务国家“一带一路”倡议，维护边海疆及领土安全，促进中华优秀文化的传承与发展，发挥文化育人功能。

同时，研究中心通过编印连续性内部资料《燕山大学东北亚古丝路文明》、举办“东北亚古丝路文明论坛”等形式，搭建学术交流和资源共享平台，不断推进各项科研成果培育与产出，着力打造独具地域文化特色、国内外具有一定影响力的新型智库和人文社会科学研究平台。

2019年以来，先后承担和参与国家社科基金重大项目5项、省部级科研项目3项；发表高水平学术论文9篇；8项智库成果获省部级以上领导批示采纳；出版学术著作2部、编著1部，编印连续性内部资料10期；获得省部级社会科学优秀成果奖2项；成功入选2022年度CTTI来源智库，并荣获CTTI智库优秀案例1项、优秀成果一等奖1项；获批“河北省哲学社会科学研究基地”。

In 2019, the world's first Northeast Asia Silk Road Civilization Research Center was established at Yanshan University. The research center is mainly committed to carrying out academic researches on the Ancient Silk Road Civilization in Northeast Asia, thus producing major academic achievements and think-tank achievements, and also carrying out researches in the fields of "Post Road of and Trading Posts & Cities along the Ancient Silk Road in Northeast Asia, Sea Frontier and Sea Power, Geopolitics and International Relations, Ethnic and Folk Customs in Northeast Asia, Culture and Art along the Silk Road in Northeast Asia, Documents Trans-editing" and other fields based upon the scientific research resources of Yanshan University and jointly established research institutes with scientific research institutions in some provinces and regions along the Ancient Silk Road. The Northeast Asia Silk Road Civilization Museum pays close attention to the leading-edge achievements of archaeological research on the Ancient Silk Road in Northeast Asia at home and abroad, plays the key role of display, collection, exchange, publicity, and education, especially displaying cultural relics of various ethnic groups along the Ancient Silk Road in Northeast Asia, and organizes researchers to carry out field archaeological investigation and research work. The research center and the museum support each other to make contributions in the fields such as joint service for the Belt and Road Initiative, safeguarding border, sea frontier, and territorial security, promoting the inheritance and development of excellent Chinese culture, and giving full play to the function of cultural education.

At the same time, the research center has established a platform for academic exchange and resource sharing, continuously forged and produced various scientific research achievements, and made efforts to build a new type of think tank and research platform for humanities and social sciences with unique regional cultural characteristics and certain global influence by regularly compiling and printing the internal materials "Research on the Ancient Silk Road Civilization in Northeast Asia by Yanshan University", holding the "Forum for Ancient Silk Road Civilization in Northeast Asia" and other activities.

Since 2019, the research center has successively hosted and participated in 5 major projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation and 3 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial level, and has published 9 high-level academic papers; 8 think-tank achievements have been approved and adopted by leaders at and above the provincial and ministerial level; it has also published 2 academic works, 1 compilation, and 10 issues of regularly published internal materials, and has won 2 awards for excellent achievements in social sciences at the provincial and ministerial level. In 2022, it was successfully listed in the CTTI source think tanks, and awarded 1 excellent case and 1 outstanding achievement award of CTTI. Moreover, it was titled as "Philosophy and Social Science Research Base in Hebei Province".