Guangdong University of Finance

Guangdong University of Finance is a provincial public undergraduate college and the only financial college in South China. The school was founded by the People's Bank of China in 1950 and is a college with "central bank genes".

The school's educational level has been continuously improved and the scale of education has been continuously expanded. In 2004, it was upgraded from "junior college" to "undergraduate". Since 2012, it has been the only pilot unit for professional master training in Guangdong for special needs projects to recruit master's students in finance. Since 2014, it has recruited foreign students. In 2016, it jointly recruited doctoral students with the University of Nottingham in the UK and the University of Nottingham Ningbo. In 2021, the school was successfully approved as a master's degree authorization unit, and three new professional master's authorization points in finance, insurance and accounting were added.

The school currently has the Guangzhou campus, Zhaoqing campus and Qingyuan campus, with a total area of ​​nearly 2,300 acres. There are 24,000 full-time undergraduate students, 293 full-time professional master's students, 162 foreign students, and more than 30,000 undergraduate and junior college students in academic continuing education. There are more than 2,000 faculty and staff (A, B, and C categories), including more than 1,300 full-time teachers.

The school has always put political construction first, guided by Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthened the "four consciousnesses", strengthened the "four self-confidences", firmly supported the "two establishments", and resolutely achieved the "two maintenances", comprehensively strengthened the party's leadership, implemented the key tasks of party building in the new era, and unswervingly promoted comprehensive and strict party governance.

The school was born out of finance, runs for finance, walks with finance, and prospers with finance. It holds high the great banner of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, never forgets its original mission of educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, takes application-oriented, high-end, distinctive, international and technological as its direction, adheres to the school motto of "Mingde, Minxue, Duxing, Zhiyuan", promotes the spirit of "encouraging learning and teaching, seeking truth and innovation", adheres to the school-running philosophy of "finance as the root, educating people, application first, innovation as the model", and embarks on a school-running path that relies on financial development, takes root in finance, and serves financial needs. It has gradually forged a distinctive financial education culture, financial innovation culture, financial service culture, and financial system culture, and has become an important base for financial discipline construction, financial talent training, and financial application research in South China and even the whole country.

The school has outstanding disciplines, distinctive characteristics, and coordinated development. The school takes economics, management, and law as the main body and finance as the core, and adheres to the coordinated and integrated development of multiple disciplines such as economics, management, law, literature, science, engineering, and art. There are 51 undergraduate majors, covering 7 disciplines: economics, management, law, literature, science, engineering, and art. The school offers all undergraduate majors under finance, and is the only university in the country with all ten undergraduate majors in finance. Finance is a national first-class undergraduate major construction point, and 9 majors such as credit management are provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points. Finance, applied economics, business administration, and economic law are key disciplines in Guangdong Province. Applied economics, business administration, and law were selected as key disciplines in the Guangdong Province Higher Education "Strive for the First-Class, Make Up for Shortcomings, and Strengthen Characteristics" Improvement Plan. As the only applied undergraduate college, the school participated in the formulation of the national standard for the teaching quality of undergraduate finance majors.

The school recruits students from 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

The quality of talent training in the school has been highly recognized and widely recognized by the society, and it is known as the "Cradle of Financial Talents in South China" and the "Whampoa Military Academy of Finance in South Guangdong". It has formed a series of educational and teaching achievements, including the national experimental teaching demonstration center, the national virtual simulation experimental center, the national first-class undergraduate courses, the national off-campus practical teaching base for college students, the national textbooks, the first prize of the Guangdong Provincial Education and Teaching Achievement Award, the provincial talent training model innovation experimental zone, the provincial teaching team, the provincial industrial college, the provincial first-class undergraduate and boutique courses, etc. The collaborative education model has been promoted twice by the Ministry of Education. The school has built the Guangzhou Currency and Finance Museum, which is a national museum and a national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students.

The school's scientific research and innovation capabilities continue to improve, and a large number of high-level applied scientific research results have been produced. 13 provincial research platforms have been built, including the Guangdong Provincial Key Think Tank, the Guangdong Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, the Guangdong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center, the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory, the Guangdong Provincial Key Base for Policy Decision-making Consulting, and the Guangzhou Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences. The scientific research results have been published or published in authoritative journals such as "Management World" and authoritative publishing institutions such as Routledge, and have won a number of scientific research awards such as the Guangdong Provincial Government Financial Innovation Award, the An Zijie International Trade Research Award, and the Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award. The journal "Financial Economics" is one of the three authoritative index journals of CSSCI, Peking University Chinese Core, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Humanities Core, and ranks third in the national financial journals. The school founded the first financial technology laboratory in the province, built the first financial risk monitoring research system in the province, and built a leading financial technology application development research platform for domestic universities, making a "Guangjin voice" in the field of financial technology innovation.

In 2016, the school was selected as the first pilot university for ordinary undergraduate transformation in Guangdong Province. It has successively carried out strategic cooperation with the Financial Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, the Guangdong Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, the Provincial Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau, 13 municipal governments in our province, the Agricultural Bank of China, Ping An Bank, Guangsheng Group, Guangdong Finance Holdings and other government and enterprises. Through the construction of a financial industry-education-research integration innovation platform, the holding of high-end financial summits, the release of regional financial operation indexes and regional financial operation development reports, etc., it strives to play the "application card" of social services and provide intellectual support for the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone. The China Financial Forum-Guangjin Qiandeng Lake Financial Summit, authorized by the People's Bank of China, has been held for six sessions so far and has become a well-known domestic high-end financial forum with thousands of people.

As one of the few universities in China that has carried out comprehensive strategic cooperation with the China Education Service Center, the school is building a financial higher education cooperation pattern of "combining the East and the West to gather Guangdong and finance", undertaking the cooperation project between the Chinese and British governments to jointly build the Guangdong-Nottingham Advanced Finance Institute with the University of Nottingham in the UK, and establishing cooperative relations with well-known domestic and foreign universities such as Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Monash University in Australia, University of Western Australia in Australia, University of Belfast in the UK, Loughborough University in the UK, and University of Zurich in Switzerland, and carrying out extensive cooperation in the construction of high-level financial talent training platforms, high-end financial training bases and new international think tanks.

The school will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee, fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches, important instructions and instructions on Guangdong and important expositions on education, implement the provincial party committee's "1+1+9" work deployment, further strengthen the school's party building, and take high-quality development as the orientation, accelerate the modernization of school management, promote the provincial and ministerial co-construction strategy, strengthen the financial brand characteristics, and cultivate a new style of financial culture. The school will be built into a first-class domestic applied financial brand university, a supporter of Guangdong's financial power construction, a leader in the development of regional financial undertakings, and a demonstrator of national high-end financial education.

(Updated: March 2022)