Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

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Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL) is an institute of higher education directly administrated by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China with economics, law, and management as its core disciplines and coordinated with other six disciplines including philosophy, literature, history, science, engineering, and art. ZUEL is also one of the universities sponsored by “211 projects” and “985 Project Innovation Platform”, which are the Chinese government’s endeavor to strengthen institutions of higher education and key disciplinary areas as a national priority. ZUEL is composed of two campuses; one (the Nanhu campus) is located on the bank of picturesque Nanhu lake, another lies at the foot of the historic site－ Yellow Crane Tower.
ZUEL has abundantly qualified teachers and has achieved striking science and research results. At present, the University has 20 schools, including the School of Marxism, School of Philosophy, School of Economics, School of Public Finance and Taxation, School of Finance, Law School, Criminal Justice School, School of Foreign Languages, School of Journalism and Culture Communication, School of Business Administration, School of Accounting (Center of MPAcc), School of Public Administration (MPA Center), School of Statistics and Mathematics, School of Information Security Engineering, Wenlan School, School of Intellectual Property Rights, MBA School, School of Continuing Education (School of Online Education), International Education School and China and South Korea Institute of New Media (DSU).
Up to now, our faculty has reached over 2400 members, among which there are about 1500 full-time teachers. There are over 270 professors, more than 580 associate professors, and over 200 doctoral supervisors in our teachers’ team. There are now three Chang Jiang Scholars, two Young Yangtze Scholars, 22 “Chutian Scholars,” and 69 Wenlan Scholars from domestic and abroad. Besides, two peoples have been listed in the Ten Thousand Talent Program as the leading talents in the area of philosophy and social science, two selected as the celebrity of culture and in the talent program of Excellent Person in Four Fields supported by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, eight listed in the New Century Talents Project, eleven elected as the member of the Teaching Advisory Board under the Ministry of Education, over twenty persons listed in the New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan of the Education Ministry and the Fok Ying Tung young teacher fund. Our school has one famous nationwide teacher in higher education, 77 experts enjoy the special allowances of the State Council, 30 local New Century High-level Talents of Hubei province, 48 awarded as Young Experts Who Make an Outstanding Contribution to Hubei Province and by Special Government Allowance of Hubei Province.
In recent years, the number of programs funded by the National Social Science Fund in our University ranks the top among the institutes of higher education in our country, No.1 among the institutes of economics or law. Among which 500 items were the key projects funded by the State Social Science Fund, the State Natural Science Fund, the Educational Department respectively, 400 of these being the science and research projects were sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Science and Technology. Over 13,000 in total research contributions have been made, including more than 800 monographs, more than 800 complied works and textbooks, and more than 11,000 papers.
As time goes by, the outstanding academic achievements of ZUEL remain shining through the ages. At present, the blueprint of the University promises a bright future. Under the circumstances of popularization, information station, and globalization of education of higher learning in China, the University, sticking to the guiding principle of achieving the first-rate rank and highlighting special features, has clarified the development orientation of the University focusing on research and teaching, put forward the objective of building the University into the comprehensive and first-class University of humanities and social sciences with economics, law, and management as the backbone, set up the cultivation pattern for talents with the feature of applicability and developing a strategy of scientific research, established the developing policy of disciplines by way of disciplinary integration and intersection to promote disciplinary development. The University has started a Rejuvenation Project, namely, the establishment, rejuvenation, reinforcement, and beautification of the University with disciplines, talents, and scientific research. The University has also promoted and executed internal administrative system reform with the reform of the personnel allocation system and logistic services socialization as the core.

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