An Introduction to School of Finance and Taxation
The predecessor of finance discipline was the department of Finance and Credits of Zhongyuan University founded in 1948, which was one of the earliest established disciplines of finance among the universities of the country. The disciplinary program was authorized to enroll postgraduates in 1979 and to confer doctor’s degree in 1993. In 1995, postdoctoral program was approved. The disciplinary of finance was accredited as one of the first key programs of the universities under Ministry of Finance in 1997, and was accredited as the key program on the state level. In September, 2004, the program was accredited as The Accomplished and Innovative Discipline of Hubei Province.
With Yang Canming, Li Daming, Pang fengxi and the others as the disciplinary forerunners, the discipline of finance is striving forward and has formed its own features: serving the development of local economy with local finance as the focus of scientific research; taking the leading position among the universities of China with the sole research institute of financial history and its research; combining the research of taxation policy with market economy and development of enterprises with a breakthrough in the field of research of enterprises taxation planning.
Major Orientations of Scientific Research
Basic theories of Chinese finance and macro financial policy, Taxation Policy and Legal System of Taxation, China’s Financial Ideology and Changes of System, Management of State-owned Property, Agricultural Economy and Taxation Policy, Comparison between East and West Finance
Academic Team
The School now boasts of an academic team with high educational backgrounds, high academic titles, well-balanced age structure, and innovative spirit. There are 32 full-time teachers, including 12 professors, 10 associate professors, 9 lecturers, 16 doctors, 2 post doctors, 11 postgraduates.
Major Achievements in Scientific Research
In the recent 5 years, nearly 40 scientific research projects sponsored at the ministerial and provincial level have been undertaken and accomplished. More than 40 monographs and textbooks have been published. Over 80 theses have been published in the authoritative journals such as Economic Research, Finance and Trade Economy, Finance Research, Taxation Research.
Academic Objective
To cultivate highly internationalized and localized administrators of finance with high quality, take the construction of first-rate teaching staff as the basis, strengthen the fruits of disciplinary construction with high-quality scientific research and teaching as support, build the discipline of finance into state-level key discipline that takes the leading place and approaches the international advanced level.