Xinjiang University Of Finance and Economics

Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics is a key university founded by the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Its predecessor was the cadre training class of the Xinjiang Provincial People's Government established in 1950; it was upgraded to Xinjiang Institute of Finance and Economics in 1959; it was transformed into Xinjiang Finance and Trade School in 1962; and it was restored to Xinjiang Institute of Finance and Economics in 1980 with the approval of the State Council. In 2000, Xinjiang Institute of Finance and Economics merged with Xinjiang Economic Management Cadre College and Xinjiang Finance and Taxation School to form the new Xinjiang Institute of Finance and Economics; in 2007, it was renamed Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

The school campus covers a total area of ​​630,502 square meters, with a building area of ​​565,143 square meters, including 147,886 square meters of teaching and administrative rooms, 116,659 square meters of student dormitories, and a total of 2.7054 million books in the library, including 1.2854 million paper books, 1.42 million electronic books, and 47 databases.

The school currently has six major disciplines: economics, management, law, engineering, science, and literature. At present, a multi-disciplinary and multi-level school-running pattern and system has been formed with undergraduate education, graduate education, and continuing education as the main forms of education. As of October 2021, the school has 21,165 students of all kinds, including 15,081 ordinary undergraduates, 2,447 master's students, 76 doctoral students, 9 international students, and 3,552 adult undergraduate and junior college students. The school currently has 915 full-time teachers, 311 full-time teachers with senior professional titles, and 261 full-time teachers with doctoral degrees.

The school was approved to confer master's degrees in 1998, and was the first to obtain the right to run an MBA in Xinjiang in 2001. In 2012, it was approved to be the "China (Xinjiang)-Central Asia Economic and Trade Cooperation Service National Special Needs Doctoral Talent Training Project", and in 2018, it was approved to be a doctoral degree-granting institution. The school has a first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point in applied economics, 8 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 13 professional degree master's degree authorization points. It has 1 autonomous region advantage discipline, 2 autonomous region characteristic disciplines, and was approved as an applied economics postdoctoral research mobile station in 2014. There are 42 undergraduate majors, 4 national characteristic majors, 1 comprehensive reform pilot major of the Ministry of Education, 12 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, 7 autonomous region first-class undergraduate major construction points, 4 autonomous region key majors, 4 autonomous region experimental teaching demonstration centers, 16 national first-class undergraduate courses, and more than 22 autonomous region first-class undergraduate courses. It has a national mass innovation space and was rated as one of the first national demonstration schools for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform.

The school insists on being based in Xinjiang, focusing on the construction of the "Silk Road Economic Belt Core Area", and continuously improving its scientific research level. In 2021, a total of 154 scientific research projects of various types were approved, with a total funding of 13.2071 million yuan. Among them, 14 National Social Science Fund projects were approved, with a total funding of 2.8 million yuan; 5 National Natural Science Foundation projects were approved, with a total funding of 1.45 million yuan; 50 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects were approved, with a total funding of 2.38 million yuan; 32 department-level scientific research projects were approved, with a total funding of 1.02 million yuan; the school continues to improve its scientific research service for regional economic and social development. In 2021, 53 horizontal projects were signed and won, with a total contract amount of 5.5571 million yuan. Published 136 high-level journal papers with Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics as the first signing unit. Submitted 10 advisory reports, of which 6 advisory reports were approved or adopted by provincial and ministerial leaders.

The university currently has 17 departments, including the Silk Road Economic and Management Research Institute, the Horgos Research Institute, and the Kashgar Regional Economic Development Research Institute. It has two country-specific research centers of the Ministry of Education, the Kazakhstan Research Center and the Central Asia Research Center, and four key research bases for humanities and social sciences in ordinary colleges and universities in the autonomous region, including the China (Xinjiang) and Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Research Center, the Xinjiang Enterprise Development Research Center, the Xinjiang Social and Economic Statistics Research Center, and the Xinjiang Finance and Financial Collaborative Innovation Research Center. There are Xinjiang test sites for the National Chinese Proficiency Test (MHK) and the British International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

The university has established counterpart support relationships with the Central University of Finance and Economics, Renmin University of China, and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and has established cooperative relationships with universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Northeast Forestry University; it has established cooperative relationships with more than 40 foreign universities, including the Wisconsin Union University, the University of Korea, and the Novosibirsk University of Economics and Management, Russia, and has established a Confucius Institute in cooperation with Zhubanov University in Aktobe, Kazakhstan.

Entering a new stage of development and standing at a new historical starting point, the school adheres to the school motto of "serving the world and benefiting the public, being kind and sincere", carries forward the university spirit of "constantly striving for self-improvement, being rigorous and realistic, being open and inclusive, and keeping pace with the times", and is steadily moving towards the goal of building a high-level university with Xinjiang characteristics that is "famous in Xinjiang, first-class in the Northwest, well-known nationwide, and radiating to Central Asia".