智库报告作为智库产出的重要成果，是解决国际战略问题、提供决策咨询的关键参考。文章通过对美国智库报告的分析，结合经验观察，从报告类型、内容、研究方法与效果方面总结出多维特征，归纳出美国的智库报告具有情报价值、证据价值、知识价值、预测价值，提出了美国智库报告利用的合理方式。研究发现：对美国智库报告的利用中，明确报告的政治倾向、公开目的与意义，掌握报告的真实内容与原始数据，有效评估报告的价值与影响，能充分发挥智库报告的功能。

As the important outcomes of think tank outputs, think tank reports are key references to solve international strategic problems and to provide decision-making advisory service. Through analysis of the reports and combined with empirical observation, the author concludes that American think tank reports bear multidimensional characteristics from types, content, research methods and research effects, and finds that the reports have intelligence value, evidence value, knowledge value and predictive value, and puts forward the reasonable way of using American think tank reports. Research findings: In the utilization of American think tank reports, their political tendency, purpose and significance of reports should be clarified, the real content and original data of reports should be mastered, and the value and influence of reports should be effectively evaluated, so as to give full play to the function of think tank reports.