Anhui University of Finance and Economics was founded in Hefei in 1959, and was named Anhui Finance and Trade College at that time. In 1961, the school moved to Bengbu, the central city of the Huaihe River Basin, which is known as the "Pearl City". The school was successively affiliated to the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Domestic Trade. In February 2000, the State Council decided that Anhui Finance and Trade College would be jointly built by the central and local governments, with the Anhui Provincial People's Government as the main management. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was renamed Anhui University of Finance and Economics in May 2004. At present, the school is a university jointly built by the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives and the Anhui Provincial People's Government, a characteristic high-level university that Anhui Province focuses on building, and a university with peak disciplines in Anhui Province. The school now has two campuses, Bengbu Longhu East and West, and the Hefei Institute of Advanced Studies, covering an area of more than 1,450 acres and a building area of about 750,000 square meters. The school has complete facilities and a beautiful environment. It has won the titles of "National Model Unit for Greening", "National Top 100 Canteens", the first "Anhui Civilized Campus", and the national "Model Unit for Energy-Saving Public Institutions". The school insists on discipline leadership. The disciplines cover seven categories, including economics, management, law, literature, science, engineering, and art. It is a multidisciplinary financial university and one of the first batch of universities in my country with the right to confer bachelor's degrees and the third batch with the right to confer master's degrees. There are 13 colleges (departments) including the School of Economics, School of Finance, School of International Economics and Trade, School of Business Administration, School of Management Science and Engineering, School of Accounting, School of Finance and Public Administration, School of Law, School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, School of Art, School of Literature, School of Marxism, and Department of Physical Education. It has 3 provincial peak disciplines, 3 provincial peak cultivation disciplines, and 8 provincial key disciplines. In the "China's Best Discipline Ranking" list released by Soft Science in 2023, the school's applied economics and statistics entered the top 20%, and business administration entered the top 30%. According to the ESI (Essential Science Indicators Database) data from Clarivate Analytics in November 2023, the school's engineering (Engineering) and social sciences (Social Sciences, General) disciplines entered the top 1% of the global ESI ranking. The school has 9 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 36 master's degree authorization points, and 16 master's professional degree authorization categories. The school insists on strengthening the school with talents. There are 1,286 full-time teachers and 589 teachers with senior professional titles. There are 4 talents of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan", 8 vice chairmen, members and secretaries-general of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 4 members of the Higher Education Employment and Entrepreneurship Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 2 national teaching masters, 40 provincial teaching masters, 12 provincial academic and technical leaders, 9 reserve candidates for provincial academic and technical leaders, 6 people enjoying special allowances from the State Council, and 4 people enjoying special allowances from the Anhui Provincial Government. The school insists on educating people first. Since its establishment, it has cultivated more than 200,000 talents of various types for the country and society. The school currently enrolls students in the first batch in 31 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) across the country. There are currently 19,922 full-time undergraduates and graduate students, and more than 10,000 continuing education students. There are currently 50 undergraduate majors in enrollment, including 24 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites and 18 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. The proportion of first-class majors ranks second among universities in Anhui Province. There are currently 13 courses selected as the first batch of national first-class courses and 1 course selected as the first batch of national ideological and political demonstration courses. The school's students' performance in subject competitions ranked third in the humanities and social sciences universities in the national general college student competition list from 2018 to 2022. The school continues to promote the construction of a "four-in-one" talent training system of knowledge exploration, ability improvement, quality training, and personality development, and continues to deepen the reform of talent training in "new liberal arts" and "new engineering", explore and practice the "new economics and management" talent training model, and is committed to cultivating high-quality innovative talents with ideals, beliefs, patriotism, cross-border thinking, innovative spirit and practical ability. Graduates are widely recognized by the society. The school insists on developing the school through scientific research. It now has 12 provincial and ministerial scientific research and innovation platforms, including the China National Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Key Think Tank, Anhui Provincial Key Think Tank, Anhui Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center, and Anhui Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as 42 school-level characteristic scientific research and innovation platforms. In the past five years, the school has been approved for a total of 112 national scientific research projects, and the number of annual projects approved by the National Social Science Fund ranks among the top three universities in Anhui Province and the top universities in finance and economics in China. It has been approved for five consecutive years for major (key) projects of the National Social Science or Natural Science Fund; many scientific research results have won scientific research awards such as the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences) and the Anhui Provincial Social Science Award; many think tank results have been affirmed by central and provincial and ministerial leaders. Based on its own characteristics and adapting to the needs of national and regional economic and social development, the school strives to build a high-end financial think tank, publishes and releases a series of research reports such as the "Anhui County Economic Competitiveness Report" and the "China Cooperative Economic Development Report" to serve Anhui's economic and social development and industry development, and its social influence continues to expand, and its scientific research characteristics and brands are increasingly prominent. The school adheres to open education. By building an international academic exchange and cooperation platform, organizing Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, carrying out education for international students in China, strengthening Sino-foreign cultural experience and exchanges, introducing high-quality foreign educational resources, implementing international talent training, consolidating the foundation of Sino-foreign cultural exchanges, and focusing on serving the new pattern of education opening up in the new era. It has signed cooperation agreements with 42 high-level universities in 19 countries and regions, recruited international students from 10 countries, and held Sino-foreign cooperative education projects with the Sejong Campus of Korea University in South Korea. The school actively integrates into the integrated development of the "Yangtze River Delta", the construction of "three places and one district" in Anhui Province, the revitalization of northern Anhui, and the construction of the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center. It has signed 572 social cooperation agreements with government agencies, industry enterprises and academic institutions, including the integration of science, education, industry, and education, government, industry, academia, research, and finance. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the school will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the Party’s education policy, implement the spirit of the National and Provincial Education Conference, the National and Provincial College Ideological and Political Work Conference, and the National Undergraduate Education Work Conference in the New Era, adhere to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and implement the two major development strategies of "Ancai New Economics and Management" and "Going Global, Building Platforms, and Improving Standards", build a new development pattern, promote high-quality development, and strive to create a new situation in the construction of a multidisciplinary, high-level university with distinctive financial and economic characteristics.
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