Guizhou University of Finance and Economics (GUFE) is a comprehensive university of finance and economics, which was founded in 1958. It has a multidisciplinary layout which stress on economics and management, and coordinates with other subjects such as law, literature, philosophy, education, art and engineering, etc. Located in Guiyang city, Guizhou Province, GUFE has two campuses in Huaxi District and Luchongguan District respectively, covering a total area of 335.27 hectares, with a total construction area of about 1.04 million square meters. It owns 397 million yuan of fixed assets. It possesses more than 2.47 million paper books, 1.61 million e-books, and 38,000 e-journals in the library.
GUFE undertakes one College of Big Data Statistics jointly run by the National Bureau of Statistics and Guizhou Provincial People’s Government. There are 18 institutes(departments), including one open Guiyang Institute for Big Data and Finance , one school of non-independent legal entity—Western Michigan Institute. There are more than 20,000 full-time students at GUFE, more than 17,000 of whom are undergraduates, 2426 of whom are graduate students, and 55 of whom are international students. GUFE has a strong teaching team with the number of staff up to 1918. Among them, we have 1250 full-time teachers, 838 teachers with senior professional title, 601 teachers with doctorates, 22 doctoral supervisors, 4 experts entitled to State’s special allowance, 9 experts entitled to provincial government’s special allowance, 2 core experts, 8 experts of Guizhou provincial management, 2 Qianling scholars, 5 provincial renowned teachers, 9 provincial outstanding teachers, 1 national outstanding teacher, 17 visiting scholars of “Light of the West”, 2 from the high-level innovative “a hundred of leading talents” and 12 from “a thousand of leading talents” in Guizhou province. In addition, GEFE was approved as the first batch of new type of think tank with Chinese characteristics in Guizhou Province, the fifth batch of provincial level base for professional and technical personnel continuing education in Guizhou Province, and the ninth batch of national level base for professional and technical personnel continuing education.
