“发现”指找出客观存在的但未被人们知道的事物和道理。有人说,发现问题,就等于问题解决了一半;还有人说得更干脆,发现就是解决问题。可见,发现对于解决问题是十分重要的。政策研究是通过调查,了解情况,发现问题,再认真研究,提出解决办法,为政策的制定和执行提供科学可靠依据的务虚性工作。发现和研究问题是其主要的职责和任务。因而,发现尤其是掌握、运用、提高发现技巧,对其尤为重要。笔者认为,政策研究的发现技巧,主要应在综合运用辩证思维、统摄思维、逆向思维、扩散思维等创造性思维的基础上,不唯书、不唯上、不唯老、不唯外,只唯实,做到: “Discovery” refers to finding things and truth that are objective but not yet known by people. Some people say that finding a problem equates to half the problem being solved. Others say it more simply and find that it is to solve the problem. Visible, found to solve the problem is very important. Policy research is to investigate the situation, find out the problems, find out the problems, study hard and put forward the solutions to provide scientific and reliable evidence-based work for policy making and implementation. Identifying and researching issues is their primary responsibility and mission. Therefore, it is particularly important to find, especially to master, apply and improve the discovery skills. The author believes that the discovery of policy research skills, mainly in the integrated use of dialectical thinking, unified thinking, reverse thinking, thinking and other creative thinking on the basis of proliferation, not only books, not the only, not the only old, not only outside, only Real, do: