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Guangdong University of Finance
China

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Official website: https://www.gduf.edu.cn/
Tel：020-37215393,020-37216086
Address：Headquarters: No. 527, Yingfu Road, Longdong, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province; Zhaoqing Campus: Xinghu Shipai, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province
Guangdong University of Finance is a provincial public undergraduate college and the only financial college in South China. The school was founded by the People's Bank of China in 1950 and is a college with "central bank genes". The school's educational level has been continuously improved and the scale of education has been continuously expanded. In 2004, it was upgraded from "junior college" to "undergraduate college". Since 2012, it has been recruiting master's students in finance as the only pilot unit for professional master training in Guangdong for special needs projects. Since 2014, it has recruited foreign students. In 2016, it jointly recruited doctoral students with the University of Nottingham in the UK and the University of Nottingham Ningbo. In 2021, the school was successfully approved as a master's degree authorization unit, and three new professional master authorization points were added: finance, insurance, and accounting. The school currently has the Guangzhou campus, Zhaoqing campus, and Qingyuan campus, with a total area of nearly 2,300 acres. There are 27,923 full-time undergraduates, 384 full-time professional master's students, 196 international students, and more than 25,000 undergraduate and junior college students in academic continuing education. There are 2,093 faculty members, including 1,340 full-time teachers. The school has always put political construction in the first place, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, firmly supported the "two establishments", strengthened the "four consciousnesses", strengthened the "four self-confidences", and achieved the "two safeguards", comprehensively strengthened the party's leadership, implemented the key tasks of party building in the new era, and unswervingly promoted comprehensive and strict party governance. The school was born out of finance, runs for finance, walks with finance, and prospers with finance. It holds high the great banner of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, never forgets its original mission of educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, takes application-oriented, high-end, distinctive, international and technological as its direction, adheres to the school motto of "Mingde, Minxue, Duxing, Zhiyuan", promotes the spirit of "encouraging learning and teaching, seeking truth and innovation", adheres to the school-running philosophy of "finance as the root, educating people, application first, innovation as the model", and embarks on a school-running path that relies on financial development, takes root in finance, and serves financial needs. It has gradually forged a distinctive financial education culture, financial innovation culture, financial service culture, and financial system culture, and has become an important base for financial discipline construction, financial talent training, and financial application research in South China and even the whole country. The school has outstanding disciplines, distinctive characteristics, and coordinated development. The school takes economics, management, and law as the main body and finance as the core, and adheres to the coordinated and integrated development of multiple disciplines such as economics, management, law, literature, science, engineering, and art. There are 53 undergraduate majors, covering 7 disciplines: economics, management, law, literature, science, engineering, and art. Finance, insurance, and accounting are national first-class undergraduate major construction points, and 14 majors such as credit management are provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points. Applied economics, business administration, finance, and economic law are key disciplines in Guangdong Province. Applied economics, business administration, and law were selected as key disciplines in the Guangdong Province Higher Education "Strive for the First-Class, Make Up for Shortcomings, and Strengthen Characteristics" Improvement Plan. As the only applied undergraduate institution, the school participated in the formulation of the national standard for the teaching quality of undergraduate finance majors. The school recruits students from 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. The quality of talent training in the school has been highly recognized and widely recognized by the society, and it is known as the "Cradle of Financial Talents in South China" and the "Whampoa Military Academy of Finance in South Guangdong". It has formed a series of educational and teaching achievements, including the national experimental teaching demonstration center, the national virtual simulation experimental center, the national first-class undergraduate courses, the national off-campus practical teaching base for college students, the national textbooks, the first prize of the Guangdong Provincial Education and Teaching Achievement Award, the provincial talent training model innovation experimental zone, the provincial teaching team, the provincial industrial college, the provincial first-class undergraduate courses and the boutique courses. The collaborative education model has been promoted twice by the Ministry of Education. The school has built the Guangzhou Currency and Finance Museum, which is a national museum and a national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students. The school's scientific research and innovation capabilities continue to improve, and a large number of high-level applied scientific research results have been produced. 17 provincial research platforms have been built, including the Guangdong Provincial Key Think Tank, the Guangdong Provincial General College Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base, the Guangdong Provincial General College Philosophy and Social Sciences Key Laboratory, the Guangdong Provincial General College Engineering Technology Research (Technology Development) Center, the Guangdong Provincial General College Characteristic New Think Tank and the Guangdong Provincial Social Science Research Base, and 13 provincial innovation teams have been approved. Scientific research results have been published or published in authoritative journals such as "Economic Research" and "Management World" and authoritative publishing institutions such as Routledge. The number of CSSCI source journals ranks second among applied undergraduate colleges in the country. Won a number of scientific research awards, including the Guangdong Provincial Government Financial Innovation Award, the An Zijie International Trade Research Award, and the Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. Many economic and management research papers were included in the national high PCSI and highly cited papers, among which the papers in the field of digital finance ranked among the top three and top five in the country. Many research and consulting reports received positive comments from central leaders. The journal "Financial Economics Research" is one of the three authoritative indexed journals of CSSCI, Peking University Chinese Core, and Academy of Social Sciences Humanities Core, and ranks second in the national financial journals. The school founded the first financial technology laboratory in the province and was approved as the first key financial technology research platform in the province (Financial Technology Engineering Technology Development Center). It has built the first financial risk monitoring research system in the province and serves 11 prefecture-level financial regulatory departments. It has built a leading financial technology application development research platform for domestic universities, and has formed a school-enterprise joint laboratory cluster with 7 large financial institutions through a scientific and technological achievement transformation cooperation model, making a "Guangjin voice" in the field of financial technology innovation. In 2016, the school was selected as the first pilot university for transformation of ordinary undergraduate programs in Guangdong Province. It has successively carried out strategic cooperation with the Financial Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, the Guangdong Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, the Provincial Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau, 13 municipal governments, the Agricultural Bank of China, Ping An Bank, Guangzhou Bank, GF Securities, Guangsheng Group, Guangdong Finance Holdings and other government and enterprises. Through the construction of a financial industry-education-research integration innovation platform, the holding of high-end financial summits, the first launch of the enterprise digital transformation index in the country, and the release of the regional financial operation index in Guangdong Province, it strives to play the "application card" of social services and provide intellectual support for the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone. The China Financial Forum authorized by the People's Bank of China, the Guangjin Qiandeng Lake Financial Summit, has been held for six sessions so far and has become a well-known high-end financial forum with thousands of people in China. As one of the few universities in China that has carried out comprehensive strategic cooperation with the China (Ministry of Education) Overseas Study Service Center, the school is building a financial higher education cooperation pattern of "East-West Integration and Guangdong-Gold". It has undertaken the cooperation project between the Chinese and British governments and co-built the Guangdong-Nottingham Advanced Finance Institute with the University of Nottingham in the UK. It has cooperated with the world's top 100 universities such as Monash University, University of Western Australia, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, Yonsei University in South Korea, and Russell Group universities such as Queen's University Belfast in the UK to jointly train undergraduates and postgraduates. It has carried out extensive cooperation in the construction of high-level financial talent training platforms, high-end financial training bases and new international think tanks. At the same time, the school cooperated with the University of Havana in Cuba to jointly build the first Finance and Financial Technology Research Center jointly established by Cuba and China (Guangdong Finance University-National Finance and Financial Technology Joint Research Center of the University of Havana in Cuba), providing a valuable platform channel for cooperation and exchanges between the two sides in the field of financial education and research, and providing necessary financial talent support and technical guarantees for the implementation of the country's "Belt and Road" initiative in Latin America. The school always adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, fully implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s series of important speeches, important instructions and instructions on Guangdong, and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on education, implements the decisions and arrangements of the Third Plenary Session of the 13th Provincial Party Committee and the spirit of the Provincial High-quality Development Conference, further strengthens the party building of the school, and takes high-quality development as the orientation. It accelerates the modernization of school management, promotes the provincial and ministerial co-construction strategy, strengthens the financial brand characteristics, and cultivates a new style of financial culture. The school will be built into a first-class applied financial brand university in China, and become a supporter of Guangdong’s construction of a strong financial province, a leader in the development of regional financial undertakings, and a demonstrator of national high-end financial education.