Central University of Finance and Economics

Central University of Finance and Economics is a university directly under the Ministry of Education, jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. It is a national "Double First-Class" construction, "211 Project" construction and the first batch of "Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" project construction universities. The school was founded on November 6, 1949. At the beginning, it was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. It has gone through the development stages of Central Taxation School, Central Finance College, Central University of Finance and Economics, and Central Finance and Banking College. In 1996, it was renamed Central University of Finance and Economics. In 2000, it was transferred from the Ministry of Finance to the direct management of the Ministry of Education. In 2005, it became a key university in the national "211 Project". In 2006, it became one of the first batch of universities in the national "Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" project construction. In 2012, it became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. In 2017, it became a national "Double First-Class" construction university.

For a long time, the school has adhered to the school motto of "loyalty, unity, truth-seeking and innovation", inherited the school-running philosophy of "seeking truth and pursuing excellence", adhered to the mission of "establishing morality and cultivating people, serving the country through finance and economics", and established a discipline system with economics, management and law as the main disciplines, literature, science, engineering, education, art and other disciplines coordinated development, forming a distinctive school-running feature, and cultivating more than 150,000 high-quality talents of all levels and types for the country's economic construction and social development. It is known as the "cradle of Chinese financial management experts". As of the end of December 2021, the school has 1,815 faculty and staff, including 1,125 full-time teachers, 359 professors, 474 associate professors, and 965 people with doctoral degrees. The school currently has 10,114 undergraduates, 5,593 master's students, 829 doctoral students, 392 foreign students, and 3,461 adult education students. The school has 53 undergraduate majors, and has the right to independently set up undergraduate majors in economics and management. It has 31 national and Beijing first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 3 first-class majors in Beijing; 15 courses were selected as the first batch of national first-class undergraduate courses, 8 courses were approved as Beijing colleges and universities' high-quality undergraduate courses, and 6 courses were selected as national high-quality online open courses; 2 courses won the first national excellent textbooks and 8 high-quality undergraduate textbooks of Beijing colleges and universities. It was selected as the first batch of national basic disciplines top students training plan 2.0 bases; approved the "high-level international talent training innovation practice project", and became the first batch of high-level international talent innovation training base units of the Ministry of Education; co-established the "Xu Guozhi Big Data Talent Class" with the Chinese Academy of Sciences system institutes; implemented the "Statistics-Finance Double Bachelor's Degree Compound Talent Training Project" to cultivate interdisciplinary compound talents from a high starting point. The school has a national "double first-class" construction discipline of applied economics, and applied economics was rated A+ in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation; it has a first-level discipline of applied economics and a second-level discipline of accounting, which are national key disciplines; it has first-level disciplines of business administration and statistics, second-level disciplines of political economy, research on the sinicization of Marxism, world economy, and cross-disciplinary disciplines of economic information management and multinational company management, and other key disciplines in Beijing; it has "high-tech" disciplines of Beijing universities such as financial security engineering, strategic economy and military-civilian integration; it has 5 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 16 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, and 20 categories authorized for master's professional degrees; the secretariat of the National Insurance and Asset Appraisal Professional Degree Graduate Education Steering Committee is located in our school; it has 5 postdoctoral research mobile stations.

For a long time, the school has attached great importance to the construction of the faculty. Among the older generation of teachers, famous economists and scholars such as Chen Daisun, Cui Jingbo, Cui Shuxiang, Li Baoguang, Liu Guangdi, Hu Zhongliu, Li Tianmin, Zhang Yuwen, Wen Qian, Jiang Weizhuang, Wei Zhenxiong, Wang Peizhen, Hou Ronghua, and Li Jixiong have taught at the school. As of the end of 2021, the school has 22 people selected for major national talent projects. In addition, there are 5 "National Candidates for the New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 1 National Outstanding Youth Science Fund winner, 1 National Excellent Youth Science Fund winner, 2 National Teaching Masters, 33 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 2 Teaching Masters of the Ministry of Education's Course Ideological and Political Demonstration Project, 1 Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist, 2 "Beijing Teacher Ethics Pioneers", 19 Beijing "Higher Education Teaching Master" Award winners, members of the Ministry of Education's Social Science Committee, and the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talents" and other outstanding talents. The school has 5 national teaching teams and 7 Beijing Excellent Teaching Teams, of which 2 teams were selected in the first and second batches of "National Huang Danian-style Teacher Teams in Colleges and Universities" respectively.

In recent years, the school has also focused on introducing a large number of outstanding overseas talents on a global platform basis, and has hired a number of well-known scholars at home and abroad as college leaders and academic leaders. For example, Nobel Prize winners in economics Lawrence Klein, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Engel, Eric Maskin, Roger Myerson, etc. serve as academic committee members, honorary professors, visiting professors and part-time professors of the school. The school gives full play to the role of "think tank" and "brain trust" in the decision-making of national ministries and local governments, and provides a strong theoretical guarantee and strong intellectual support for national economic construction and social development. It has the National Financial Security Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, the China Actuarial Research Institute, the Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Base, the Beijing Finance Research Base and the Capital Internet Economic Development Research Base, the Beijing University Socialism Theory Research Collaborative Innovation Center and the China Financial Development Collaborative Innovation Center and other think tanks. Since 2016, the school has undertaken 11 major projects of the National Social Science Fund, 1 national key research and development plan project, 125 national social science fund projects, 187 national natural science fund projects, and 85 humanities and social science research projects of the Ministry of Education.

The various forums and high-level international seminars held by the school have had a huge impact at home and abroad. The school has continuously improved its internationalization level and established cooperative relations with more than 180 units including world-renowned universities, international organizations and multinational companies. Actively promote the internationalization of talent training, and 10 degree programs have been certified by well-known international organizations such as AMBA and the Institute of Actuaries. Sino-foreign cooperative education projects have achieved full coverage of undergraduate, master and doctoral levels. The school was approved by the Ministry of Education's Sino-Foreign Humanities Exchange Center for the "High-level International Talent Training Innovation and Practice Project".

Since undertaking national foreign aid projects, it has trained more than 1,800 senior government officials from nearly 100 developing countries. Standing at the historical intersection of the "two centenary" goals, the school has determined the school's development strategic goals based on the needs of national economic and social development and the development trends of higher education at home and abroad, combined with its own development advantages, and after scientific demonstration: to build Central University of Finance and Economics into a world-class university with distinctive characteristics.