Hebei University of Economics and Business

Hebei University of Economics and Business is a key university in Hebei Province. It is a multidisciplinary financial university with economics, management, law as the main disciplines, as well as literature, science, engineering and art. The school was formed by the merger of Hebei University of Finance and Economics, Hebei University of Economics and Trade, Hebei Commercial College, etc., and has a history of 69 years. The school is divided into three campuses: North, South and West. The South and West campuses are independent colleges - School of Economics and Management, located in the Southwest Higher Education Zone of Shijiazhuang City, covering an area of ​​more than 200 acres. The North Campus is the main campus of the school, which mainly provides undergraduate, graduate and international student education. It is located in the waterfront landscape belt of the western ecological zone of Shijiazhuang City, covering an area of ​​more than 2,800 acres, with a green area of ​​more than 40%. The school was awarded the title of "National Model Greening Unit".

The school currently has 16 undergraduate colleges, 3 teaching departments (centers), as well as the Graduate School, the School of Marxism, the School of Continuing Education, and the School of Economics and Management (independent college). It also has nearly 70 physical and non-physical research institutions, including the Institute of Economics, the Institute of Social Governance, the Hebei Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Social Governance Morality and Rule of Law, the Hebei Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for the Coordinated Development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Regional Green and Low-Carbon Development Research Institute, the Xiong'an Development Research Institute, and the Central and Eastern European International Business Training Institute.

The school has always adhered to the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Focusing on the goal of building a modern economic power and beautiful Hebei proposed by the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the school leadership team led all teachers and students to work together and strive for progress, which effectively promoted the rapid and sound development of the school's various undertakings, and the school's school-running ability, school-running level, social visibility and reputation continued to improve. The school party committee was awarded the honorary titles of "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization", "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization for Pioneering and Striving for Excellence", "Provincial Party Building Demonstration University", and "Hebei Province Advanced Grassroots Party Organization". The school was rated "Excellent" in the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education, and was awarded the honorary titles of "National May 1st Labor Award", "National Advanced Unit for Open and Democratic Management of Factory Affairs", and "National 50 Typical Experience Universities for Graduate Employment".

The school currently has more than 1,800 faculty and staff, including more than 1,200 full-time teachers, more than 600 teachers with associate senior titles or above, and more than 600 doctors and doctoral students. The faculty includes more than 200 people, including national candidates of the New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project, experts with special government allowances from the State Council, candidates of the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, outstanding professional and technical talents in Hebei Province, outstanding provincial experts, first-level candidates of the Hebei Province "Three Three Three" Talent Project, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, and outstanding young experts in provincial social sciences.

The school has 10 provincial key disciplines and 1 provincial key development discipline, 10 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 18 master's professional degree authorization points, and 52 undergraduate enrollment majors. In the "Promotion Plan for the Construction of First-Class Universities and First-Class Disciplines in Hebei Province (2021-2025)", our school is included in the scope of first-class university construction with key support, and applied economics, Marxist theory, and law are included in the scope of first-class discipline construction, among which applied economics is identified as a key support discipline, and Marxist theory and law are identified as key cultivation disciplines. In the "Double 10,000 Plan" for the construction of first-class undergraduate majors of the Ministry of Education, 9 majors including finance, finance, trade economics, law, journalism, business administration, accounting, tourism management, and insurance were selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 24 majors were selected as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. It has 5 national first-class undergraduate courses and 38 provincial first-class courses. The school actively promotes the reform of new financial talent training, puts forward the five-dimensional talent training specifications of "family and country feelings + financial knowledge + information technology + professional quality + international vision", establishes a multi-dimensional linkage and collaborative education model, and opens 6 new financial talent training reform experimental classes such as "artificial intelligence law", "financial technology", "smart business administration", "digital accounting", "digital economy", and "smart logistics management". The school recruits students from 24 provinces (municipalities, autonomous regions), and currently has more than 18,800 full-time undergraduates and more than 2,600 master's students. There are more than 9,100 students in independent colleges and more than 1,800 students in continuing education colleges. The enrollment and employment work is in a good situation, and the enrollment and employment rates are among the best in the province.

The school resolutely implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, adheres to the path of connotation development, firmly establishes the central position of teaching, vigorously promotes education and teaching reform, strives to improve the quality of teaching, and has achieved fruitful education and teaching results. The school fully implements the credit system, the full-time ordinary undergraduate course is 4 years, the study period is 3-6 years, and it has the qualification to recommend outstanding undergraduate graduates to study for a master's degree without examination. The school has more than 40 national-level teaching reform and teaching quality engineering projects such as the national experimental teaching demonstration center, the national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, the national first-class professional construction point, the national teaching team, and the national new engineering practice project, and more than 130 provincial-level teaching reform and teaching quality engineering projects. In recent years, it has won 1 second prize for national teaching achievements and more than 30 provincial-level teaching achievement awards. The school integrates innovation and entrepreneurship education into the talent training system, implements discipline integration, industry-education integration, science-education integration, and general-specialty integration, and strives to cultivate high-quality application-oriented talents with social responsibility and innovative spirit. The "national-provincial-school-level" college student innovation and entrepreneurship training program and college student science and technology competition support system have been established. Students have achieved excellent results in national competitions such as the National "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the "Challenge Cup" Competition, and the number of awards ranks among the top in the province's universities. Graduate education implements the classification of professional and academic master training, gradually deepens the reform of graduate training mode under the background of new financial education reform, strengthens the construction of graduate education standardization system, and promotes the high-quality development of graduate education.

In the past five years, the school has undertaken more than 90 national social science fund projects, natural science fund projects and Ministry of Education projects, more than 1,500 other types of projects, and nearly 120 million yuan in scientific research funds. The number, quality and level of project results have been steadily improved year by year. The school actively promotes local economic development with scientific research innovation, and actively conducts investigations and research on major issues of national and Hebei economic and social development such as "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development" and "Xiong'an New Area construction", providing decision-making consultation and technical services for party and government agencies, enterprises and institutions, and promoting the transformation of scientific research results. Among them, nearly 70 achievements have been approved by national leaders such as Xi Jinping and Zhang Gaoli, and the main leaders of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, as well as other provincial and ministerial leaders.

The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation, and has long-term exchanges and cooperation with colleges and universities and other educational institutions in more than 50 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, and South Korea. The school is one of the units responsible for the training of Chinese government scholarships for international students and international Chinese teacher scholarships. There are more than 170 international students from 29 countries. The Central and Eastern European International Business Training Institute provides strong intellectual support for serving the country's "Belt and Road" initiative and promoting exchanges with Central and Eastern European countries. The school and Concordia University Chicago in the United States have carried out undergraduate Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and the joint training of DBA doctoral students by the two schools has been smoothly promoted. In 2021, the school successfully opened the undergraduate academic mutual recognition course (referred to as ISEC) project, and the level of international talent training has been continuously improved. The school has made remarkable achievements in spreading Chinese culture and promoting Chinese, and has co-founded two "Confucius Institutes" with Kathmandu University and the University of Zambia. The Confucius Institute at the University of Zambia and the Confucius Institute at the University of Kathmandu, Nepal were both awarded the title of "Advanced Confucius Institute", and the Confucius Institute at the University of Zambia was also awarded the title of "Global Demonstration Confucius Institute". At the 19th China International Education Annual Conference, the school won the "Belt and Road" International Education Exchange Award.

Looking to the future, the school party committee has put forward the goal of building a well-known high-level financial and economic university in China, and formulated the three major strategies of "talent-driven school, innovation-driven, and open schooling". Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, all teachers and students will fully implement the school's "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan, consolidate the foundation, strengthen the connotation, expand the pattern, and improve the level, comprehensively improve the quality of talent training and the comprehensive strength of the school, and strive to build a modern economic power and beautiful Hebei! (January 2022)