Jilin University of Finance and Economics，established in September 1948, has a history of fifty-eight years. Diachronically it has the following predecessors: Northeast General Headquarter Banking Training Class, Northeast Banking Leader School, Northeast Banking Special School, Changchun Banking School, Jilin Finance and Trade College and Finance and Economics School of Jilin Province. It was renamed as Jilin Financial and Trade College in 1978, and in 1992 it was put under the administration of State Bureau of taxation and changed the name to Changchun Taxation College. Until 2000, it was under the direct jurisdiction of Jilin province, and now it has become a leading provincial college. In March 2010, with the approval of the Ministry of Education of China and Jilin Provincial Government, the college has officially changed its name to Jilin University of Finance and Economics.
Jilin University of Finance and Economics is a comprehensive financial university, which welcomes to the students all over the country. Besides the undergraduate education, it offers a variety of programs. It now has graduate program,adult higher, training program for the professionals and collaboration programs with foreign colleges. The university boasts six disciplinary areas covering thirty-two academic disciplines for undergraduates, including economics, management, law, science, engineering and arts. Among which it has six provincial key disciplines, and twenty for the postgraduate.
There is strong academic atmosphere in the university: Recently the university has assumed 167 national, ministerial or provincial scientific research projects, published 156 books, edited or co-edited 30 published textbooks directed by Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, and state Bureau of Taxation, and 1,800 academic papers in core magazines. 296 achievements in scientific research won provincial (ministerial) level and above awards. “Modern Economics Research”, co-edited with China research association of “Capital”, and journal “Taxation and Economics” have become core periodicals in economics in China.
Jilin University of Finance and Economics has established worldwide exchange and intercollegiate collaboration relationship with many universities, where are Atlantic University of U.S.A., Youngstown State University of U.S.A., the university of Regina in Canada, the University of New South Walse and Charles Sturt University in Australia, Far-east Commercial University of Russia, Waseda University, Teikyo University, Tokyo Management College, Tokyo Taxation College, Korean National Taxation College, Kangnam University, Cheongju University, and Seoul National University. And the collaboration with Charles Sturt University has been ratified as the first batch of the international cooperation program by the State Council, which owns over 2,000 students.
As a basement of training taxation leaders, Jilin University of Finance and Economics has educated almost 3000 of them recently. Even nearly 100 high ranking leaders in the present taxation department have had classes here.
Our goal in the nearby future is to build a university which is getting established in proper scale, reasonable structure with high-quality education, to develop the university by distinguishable features, to show national influence in China, and to be the top class multi-disciplinary finance and economics university.