Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics is a national key university under the Ministry of Education for the construction of the national "211 Project" and "985 Project" advantage discipline innovation platform, and is also one of the first batch of "double first-class" construction universities in the country. The school is located in Chengdu, a famous historical and cultural city in China, the "Land of Abundance". It has two campuses, Guanghua and Liulin, covering more than 2,300 acres. The campus is full of lakes and willows, green grass and trees, and scholars. It is a famous "garden-style college" and an ideal place for studying and studying.

The school began with Guanghua University, which was founded in Shanghai in 1925. In 1938, Guanghua University Chengdu Branch was established due to the relocation during the Anti-Japanese War. From 1952 to 1953, the finance and economics departments of 17 colleges and universities in the southwest were successively gathered to form Sichuan University of Finance and Economics. It was one of the four financial and economic colleges and universities in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After 1960, it was divided, merged, renamed, and restored to Sichuan University of Finance and Economics in 1978. In 1979, it was transferred to the People's Bank of China by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government, and gradually formed a unique financial industry background and outstanding financial discipline advantages. In 1985, it was renamed Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. In 1997, it became a key construction university of the national "211 Project". In 2000, it was transferred to the management of the Ministry of Education as an independent system. In 2010, it became a pilot university for national education system reform. In 2011, it became a university for the construction of the national "985 Project" advantage discipline innovation platform. In 2017, it became one of the first batch of national "double first-class" construction universities.

Huangpu Huanhua is in the wind and rain, and Guanghua Liulin composes a brilliant chapter. After experiencing the changes of the times, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics has always shared the fate of the country and the nation, and has always progressed with the development of the times. It has cultivated the university spirit of "serving the world and the people, and striving for excellence", laid the academic foundation of "openness, tolerance, truth-seeking and innovation", cultivated the pillars of "governing the country and contributing to society", and created a historical monument of "promoting education and serving the country, and taking responsibility for the nation".

The school is committed to cultivating outstanding talents in the field of finance and economics who are well-rounded in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor development, and have a sense of social responsibility, innovative spirit and international vision. There are 28 colleges (centers) and other teaching units, 41 undergraduate majors; there are more than 24,600 full-time students, including more than 15,800 ordinary full-time undergraduates, more than 7,900 master's students, and more than 820 doctoral students. Since its establishment, the school has provided a large number of outstanding talents for the country's economic construction and social development, and has become an important base for the cultivation of high-level talents in the country's financial, economic, and management departments. The undergraduate employment rate is 95.92%, and the rate of further study at home and abroad is 40%. A large number of leaders in the financial industry have emerged among the more than 180,000 alumni, and it is known as the "China Financial Talent Pool".

The school has a number of teaching and research institutions with strong faculty, including the National Economic Basic Talent Training Base, the National College Student Cultural Quality Education Base, the Basic Discipline Outstanding Student Training Program 2.0 Base, the National Law Education Practice Base, and the "International Organization Talent Training Innovation Practice Project" Base; it has 1 national teacher teaching development demonstration center, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 1 national professional comprehensive reform pilot project. The Economist and Finance Science sponsored by the school have been rated as national college social science journals and boutique journals respectively; the English academic journal Financial Innovation has become the first domestic academic journal in the financial field to be included in SSCI in the past decade; it has a modern digital library with rich collections, and is currently the largest financial document center in the southwest region; it has the only currency museum in the southwest region: the Currency and Finance Museum.

The school continues to strengthen the strategic leadership of discipline development, and strives to build a discipline ecological system with distinctive characteristics, outstanding advantages, reasonable structure, and vitality. There are 7 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees in theoretical economics, applied economics, business administration, management science and engineering, statistics, sociology, and law, 6 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 19 professional degree authorization points; there are 4 national key disciplines in finance, political economy, accounting, and statistics, and 5 provincial key first-level disciplines; there are 5 postdoctoral mobile stations in theoretical economics, applied economics, business administration, management science and engineering, and statistics. Applied economics has entered the ranks of world-class discipline construction, and 3 disciplines, "Economics and Business", "General Social Sciences", and "Engineering", have entered the top 1% of ESI disciplines in the world; Business administration has passed the dual certification of EQUIS and China's high-quality MBA; it is the first in mainland China to pass the dual certification of AACSB business and accounting. The 2021 Times World University Rankings ranks 501-600, ranking first among similar domestic institutions.

The school has implemented the innovation-driven strategy in depth, insisted on combining serving the country's major needs with the frontiers of disciplines, focusing on major practical problems, strengthening applied research, and producing a large number of high-level research results. Approved as the first batch of "National Research Center for Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics" by the Central Propaganda Department, it has a number of new high-end think tanks such as the "China Financial Research Center", "Financial Security and Development Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Base", "Financial Security Collaborative Innovation Center", "China Family Finance Survey and Research Center", and "Western Finance Think Tank" which are key research bases of the Ministry of Education in humanities and social sciences. Strengthen research on major theoretical and practical issues of national, industrial and regional economic and social development, and strive to build a national "Financial Think Tank" and "Western Finance Think Tank". Give full play to the advantages of disciplines and talents, actively respond to the national precise poverty alleviation strategy, actively carry out counterpart assistance work, and bravely shoulder the social responsibility of the university.

The school vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents. In the magnificent history of running schools, it has a gathering of humanities and famous teachers. Masters such as Hu Shi, Qian Zhongshu, Xu Zhimo, and Ye Shengtao preached and taught here; famous economists such as Xie Lin, Chen Baoyin, Tang Xianglong, Xu Tingxing, and Liu Shibai taught and answered questions here. There are more than 2,000 faculty members and more than 1,300 full-time teachers, including more than 336 professors, more than 567 associate professors, more than 320 doctoral supervisors, more than 300 full-time returnees, and 113 national talents, forming a "clustering effect" of talents at home and abroad.

The school has implemented the deep opening strategy in depth, and strengthened international exchanges and cooperation at a high level, in a wide range of fields and through multiple channels. It has established extensive cooperative relations with more than 200 well-known universities, research institutions and well-known companies in more than 40 countries and regions in the world. It has been approved for 3 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects and 1 Sino-foreign cooperative education institution, opened all-English majors, and cultivated and established student scholarships for studying abroad and "Belt and Road" international student scholarships. It has co-created and co-built the International Risk Data Analysis Alliance, the Financial Risk Research Center, and the International Joint Laboratory of Fintech with the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and State Street Bank. It has established the Confucius Institute at the University of North Macedonia and the first "Chengdu Base for the International Promotion of Chinese" in Sichuan. The influence of the brand project Global Academy Summer International Academic Camp continues to grow. Many Nobel Prize winners and other well-known scholars have visited our school to engage in high-level, cutting-edge dialogues and discussions with teachers and students.

Be honest and upright, and benefit the people. All people in Xifu University are more closely united around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, 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 and Fifth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee, the decisions and arrangements made by the 13th and the Second and Third Party Congresses of the University, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, take root in China to run a socialist university, unite and strive, forge ahead, innovate, and work hard to accelerate the construction of a world-class university with distinctive financial characteristics, and make new and greater contributions to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!