Anhui University of Finance and Economics

Anhui University of Finance and Economics is referred to as "Ancai University". The school was founded in Hefei, Anhui in May 1959, and was then named Anhui Finance and Trade College. In 1961, it moved to Bengbu, the central city of the Huaihe River Basin known as the "Pearl City". The school was successively affiliated to the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Domestic Trade. In February 2000, the State Council decided that Anhui Finance and Trade College would be jointly built by the central and local governments, with the Anhui Provincial Government as the main management. In May 2004, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was renamed Anhui University of Finance and Economics.

Anhui University of Finance and Economics was founded in Hefei in May 1959, and was then named Anhui Finance and Trade College. In 1961, the school was relocated to Bengbu, the central city of the Huaihe River Basin known as the "Pearl City", and the school was located on Jiaotong Road. In 1983, the school headquarters moved to Longhu West Campus. The school was successively affiliated to the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Domestic Trade. In February 2000, the State Council decided that Anhui Finance and Trade College would be jointly built by the central and local governments, with the Anhui Provincial Government as the main management. In May 2004, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was renamed Anhui University of Finance and Economics; in September of the same year, the school moved to Longhu East Campus.

The school is a multidisciplinary financial university with economics, management, and law as the main subjects, and seven major disciplines including literature, science, engineering, and art. It is one of the first batch of universities in my country with the right to confer bachelor's degrees and the third batch with the right to confer master's degrees. It is a key university in Anhui Province and a university jointly built by the Anhui Provincial People's Government and the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives. In 2012, it was approved for the National Central and Western College Basic Capacity Construction Project, and in 2014 it was selected for the Anhui Province Local Characteristic High-level University Construction Project.

The school currently has 19,977 undergraduate students, 3,285 master's students, and 8,869 students of various higher education continuing education. The school firmly establishes the status of a talent training center, conscientiously implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, promotes the construction of a "four-in-one" education system of knowledge exploration, ability improvement, quality training, and personality development, and is committed to cultivating high-level applied talents, providing talent support and intellectual support for local and industry economic and social development. The school's "Exploration and Practice of the "Four-in-One" High-level Applied Talent Training System" won the second prize of national teaching achievements. In the 2021 "Soft Science China University Major Ranking", the school ranked 10th among national financial and economic universities and 1st among Anhui provincial universities with 2 A+ majors, 10 A majors, 17 B+ majors, and 23 B majors.

The school currently has 1,558 faculty members, 606 teachers with senior professional titles, 28 doctoral supervisors, and a master's and doctoral rate of nearly 91%. There are 3 people in the national "Ten Thousand People Plan", 8 vice chairmen, members, and secretaries-general of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 4 members of the Higher Education Employment and Entrepreneurship Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 2 national teaching masters, 34 provincial teaching masters, 8 provincial master studios, 15 provincial academic and technical leaders, 12 provincial academic and technical leaders reserve candidates, 7 people enjoying special allowances from the State Council, and 4 people enjoying special allowances from the Anhui Provincial Government.

The school currently has the School of Economics, School of Finance, School of International Economics and Trade, School of Business Administration, School of Management Science and Engineering, School of Accounting, School of Finance and Public Administration, School of Law, School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, School of Art, School of Literature, School of Marxism, and Department of Physical Education. It has 57 undergraduate majors, 2 second bachelor's degree majors, 9 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 36 second-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 14 professional master's degree authorization points, 20 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, 11 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points, 1 national curriculum ideological and political demonstration course, 5 national first-class undergraduate courses, 5 national characteristic majors, 14 provincial characteristic majors, 1 national comprehensive professional reform pilot, 20 provincial comprehensive professional reform pilots, 1 national school-enterprise cooperation practice education base, 1 national curriculum ideological and political teaching team, 33 provincial teaching teams, 51 provincial excellent talent training plan projects, 2 provincial talent training model innovation experimental areas, 2 provincial key laboratories, 51 curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, 68 provincial quality courses, 57 provincial offline, online, online and offline hybrid, virtual simulation and social practice courses.

The school gives full play to its educational heritage and advantages, condenses the characteristics and directions of disciplines, establishes discipline special zones, innovates discipline construction platforms, and forms a multi-category, reasonable structure, mutual support, and obvious advantages and characteristics of economics and management disciplines. There are 8 provincial key disciplines, 1 provincial first-class discipline, and 3 provincial peak disciplines. Applied economics has been selected as a provincial key discipline, a domestic first-class discipline approved by Anhui Province, and a Class II peak discipline. Business administration and statistics were selected as Class III peak construction disciplines in Anhui Province. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, the three disciplines of applied economics, business administration, and statistics were awarded B-grade.

The school adheres to the concept of developing the school through scientific research and continuously improves the level of scientific research and social service capabilities. It currently has 5 provincial and ministerial key research bases such as the "Cooperative Economic Research Center", "Economic Development Research Center", and "Cotton Engineering Research Institute", 1 provincial collaborative innovation center of the "Anhui Economic Early Warning, Operation and Strategic Collaborative Innovation Center", 4 provincial and ministerial key think tanks such as the "China Cooperative Research Institute" and the "Anhui Economic Development Research Institute", and 42 school-level characteristic scientific research and innovation platforms such as the "China Xiaogang Research Institute". In recent years, the school has made new breakthroughs in the number and level of national projects such as the National Social Science Fund and the National Natural Science Foundation. The number of national social science fund projects has remained at the forefront of national financial and economic universities and provincial universities; published many papers in authoritative academic journals at home and abroad such as "Chinese Social Sciences", "Economic Research", and "Management World"; the results have won the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), Anhui Provincial Social Science Award and other awards; many research results have been approved by central and provincial leaders. Based on local economic and social development and industry needs, the school strives to create a new high-end think tank in the field of finance and economics. In particular, the research results represented by the series of research reports on Anhui's economic and social development have increasingly expanded their policy influence and media influence, and their distinctive brands have become increasingly prominent. The "Financial and Trade Research" sponsored by the school was selected as the "Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) Source Journal", "National Chinese Core Journal", "Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences A Journal Core Journal", "RCCSE Chinese Core Academic Journal", and was rated as "FMS Management Science High-quality Journal", "Important Reprint Source Journal of Photocopied Newspapers and Periodicals", and "National University Social Science Famous Journal".

The school actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation, focusing on promoting cooperation with high-level foreign universities, and focusing on educational cooperation and exchanges with countries along the "Belt and Road", member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and Central and Eastern European countries. By building an international academic exchange and cooperation platform, holding Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, carrying out education for international students in China, and strengthening Sino-foreign cultural experience and exchanges, the school introduces high-quality foreign educational resources to improve the level of discipline and professional construction, implement international talent training, consolidate the foundation of Sino-foreign cultural exchanges, and strive to serve the new pattern of education opening up in the new era.

The school covers a total area of ​​891,329.56 square meters, of which Longhu East Campus is 661,005.79 square meters and Longhu West Campus is 230,323.77 square meters. The school has a building area of ​​744,864.92 square meters, and the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 241.3 million yuan. The paper collection of books is 2.2317 million volumes, and the electronic collection is 120TB.

The school has complete teaching and sports facilities and student apartments with apartment management. It has good learning conditions and an elegant living environment. It has won the titles of "National Model Greening Unit", "National Top 100 Canteens", "Advanced Collective of Student Apartment Work in Anhui Province", the first "Anhui Civilized Campus", and the national "Model Unit of Energy-Saving Public Institutions".

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the school fully implements the spirit of the National and Provincial Conference on Ideological and Political Work in Colleges and Universities, the National Education Conference, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Colleges and Universities in the New Era, comprehensively deepens the school's comprehensive reform, innovates the talent training model, adheres to the school motto of "Integrity, Erudition, Unity of Knowledge and Action", conforms to the laws of higher education development, and solidly promotes the development strategy of "Ancai New Economics and Management" and the strategic path of "Going Out, Building Platforms, and Leveling Up", and builds Anhui University of Finance and Economics into a high-level teaching and research university with outstanding advantages in economics and management disciplines, distinctive characteristics among similar colleges and universities, first-class in the province, and a certain influence at home and abroad.