Hebei University is the only key comprehensive university co-constructed by Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Hebei Province. In the past 99 years, generations of scholars have made their ways through all difficulties, and generations of students have made great efforts to learn and become useful people for the country. They have inherited academic fire and created excellent culture, and jointly nurtured, cultivated and accumulated the school motto of “seeking truth from facts” and the school spirit of “erudition, truth-seeking, perseverance and innovation”, forming the spirit and culture of Hebei University, which have been passed down from generation to generation, kept pace with the times and lasted for a long time. It is the soul and life of Hebei University. It is invisible but eternal. It is the precious wealth left to us by students from Hebei University and the source of power for Hebei University to keep its youth forever.
The School of Economics of Hebei University is the earliest professional college established by Hebei University. Its predecessor was the Department of Economics of Hebei University, which was established in 1960. In 1992, it was withdrawn from the department and established as the first secondary college in Hebei University. In the 1980s, famous economists Yang Qixian, Lu Baifu, Jiang Guangyuan, Ouyang Sheng all taught here successively. Over the past 60 years, the school has sent more than 10,000 talents of various types to the country's economic and social development. Fan Gang, an economist and member of the Central Bank Monetary Policy Committee, Chen Yan, member of the Academic Committee of the National Academy of Strategic Studies and former deputy director of the Political Department of the South China Sea Fleet, and Shen Xiaoping, former deputy governor of Hebei Province and vice chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference, are all outstanding representatives of college graduates.
Through the joint efforts of several generations, the school has established first-class doctoral programs in applied economics, which is the only doctoral program in economics in Hebei Province, and three first-class master's programs, covering 12 academic master's disciplines and five professional master's disciplines. Finance and Economic Statistics are the national first-class undergraduate major construction sites (Double Ten Thousand Plan). Relying on the multi-disciplinary advantages of Hebei University (a comprehensive university), the college has solidly promoted the interaction, complementarity and integration of the two classrooms, and created the school-running characteristics of "integrating and educating people". Adhering to the talent goal of solid basic economic theory and outstanding innovative practice ability, it has successively jointly built a "national off-campus practical education base for college students" with CAIDA Securities and cooperated with local governments and well-known enterprises to build a social practice base for students. The Department of Economics has been designated as the only "Innovation Experimental Zone of Economics Talent Training Model" in Hebei Province. At the same time, the school insists on opening-up enrollment and pays attention to international exchanges. On the one hand, it encourages teachers and students to go abroad for further study, and on the other hand, it expands the enrollment of overseas students. Now it has achieved full coverage of overseas students with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree.
What the Great Learning teaches is to illustrate illustrious virtue. It is our commitment to fulfill our duties, be brave in taking responsibility and cultivate talents; It is our belief to pursue excellence and forge ahead. As a new generation of people from the school of Economics in Hebei University who inherit history and continue their glory, teachers will assume the responsibility of propagating the doctrine, imparting professional knowledge, and resolving doubts. They are also glad to see everyone's vitality, innovation and pioneering spirit. We should not only learn knowledge from books, but also write papers from the practice, and strive to realize the oath of serving the society and benefiting mankind.
We live in a great new era where China has made great economic and social progress. As the world's second largest economy, its international influence has been continuously enhanced. Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, it is striding forward. Facing the unprecedented changes in the past century and the impact of the global epidemic, we should keep the entire motherland in mind and the whole world in view. We should cultivate more outstanding talents for the society with new ideas, new concepts and new models, and contribute more wisdom and strength to China's economic and social development!
“Spring breeze blowing the river green water, as green as blue grass; morning shore safflower, more red than the burning flame.”After more than 60 years of passing on from generation to generation, The School of Economics will continue to take discipline construction as the leader, with personnel training as the core, under the background of promoting the joint construction of ministries and provinces, the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Millennium Development Strategy of Xiongan New Area, sincerely inviting elites and young talents from the economic circle at home and abroad to join the School of Economics of Hebei University. They would join hands with our teachers and students, uniting as one, and make suggestions for the construction of the college into a "first-class discipline and first-class college" at home and abroad. We will work hard, open up new undertakings, and rebuild new achievements!
Cheng Xinxuan
August 31st, 2020
