​​​​School of Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics originated from Jiangxi Provincial Commercial School which was established in 1923. Statistics is the university’s traditional advantage major, and has complete discipline platforms including bachelor’s degree, master’s degree (including professional master’s degree), doctor’s degree and post-doctoral mobile stations. Quantitative Economics is a level II discipline under the applied economics of our university, and has the discipline platforms including master, doctor and postdoctoral mobile stations, and so on.

The School consists of “five departments, one institute and two firms”, namely five teaching departments (Department of Economic Statistics, Department of Financial Statistics, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Department of Management Statistics and Department of Quantitative Economics), Research Institute of Statistics and Risk Management, quantitative economics research Firms and Time Research Firm, Jiangxi Applied Statistics Research Center (Jiangxi university humanities and social sciences key research base), Jiangxi Center for Economic Forecasting and Decision Making (the Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Jiangxi), and supply chain big data research center (jointly built with China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing). The School invites Professor Qiu Dong, famous statistician and Changjiang scholar, as honorary president.

Discipline Platform

    Statistics in Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics is one of the larger and faster developing disciplines in China. In 1978 and 1985, the major acquired the right for bachelor’s degree and master’s degree respectively. In 1997, 2001 and 2006, the statistics discipline was rated as a provincial key discipline for three consecutive times. In 2002, the statistics major was evaluated as the brand major of Jiangxi Province. In 2006, the master program in statistics was awarded as the model master program in Jiangxi Province, and the second batch of postgraduate education innovation base in Jiangxi Province. In 2011, the school became the only one of the first batch of China’s institutions that awarded doctoral programs in level I disciplines of statistics in our province. In 2012, the school became the first post-doctoral statistics research station in our province. In 2017, the statistics discipline of our school was selected as the “first-class discipline of Jiangxi Province”. In the fourth round of discipline assessment of the Ministry of Education, it was rated A-level, and ranked among the top 10% of universities in China. At present, the statistics disciplined of our school is the leader organization of Jiangxi university statistics discipline alliance, which has formed a development pattern with postgraduate education as the forerunner, undergraduate education as the center and international cooperation in running schools as the supplement.

Quantitative Economics has a certain influence in China. In 2000, it obtained the right to grant master’s degree. In 2003, 2007 and 2011, it was approved as a key discipline of Jiangxi Province. In 2011, it obtained the right to grant doctor’s degree. After years of construction, Quantitative Economics of our school has made great progress and has become an important force in the discipline construction of our school. Our school has certain characteristics and advantages in econometric methods and applications, game theory and information economics, quantitative finance and investment analysis, etc.

Teaching Staff

        The college boasts a strong faculty team. It currently has 115 faculty and staff members, including 26 doctoral supervisors, 52 teachers with senior professional titles, and more than 98% of the teaching staff hold doctoral degrees. The college now has two academician workstations, with 5 individuals awarded national-level talent honorary titles. Professor Qiu Dong, a renowned statistician, Convener of the Statistics Discipline Group of the National Social Science Fund, national leading figure in economic statistics, and Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor, serves as Honorary Dean and Chair Professor. Professor Luo Liangqing, a National Famous Teacher under the Ten-Thousand Talents Program, is a member of the Expert Committee of the National Textbook Committee, a member of the Economics Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, a member of the Teaching Steering Committee for Master of Applied Statistics of the Ministry of Education, and an expert enjoying the Special Government Allowance from the State Council.

      Faculty construction has achieved fruitful results. Professor Luo Liangqing has been awarded the Special Government Allowance from the State Council, the May 1st Labor Medal of Jiangxi Province, the honorary title of Excellent Teacher in Students' Hearts, the title of Model with Outstanding Contributions among the Pioneers of Ganpo in the New Era, and the honor of Good Person of Jiangxi. Professor Ping Weiying was awarded the Second Prize in the 18th Higher Education Teaching Award of the Huo Yingdong Education Foundation and the title of Gold Medal Professor of Jiangxi Province. Professor Tan Li was honored as Gold Medal Young Teacher of Jiangxi Province, and her teaching team was selected as a High-level Undergraduate Teaching Team of Jiangxi Province. Dr. Hu Lanli and Associate Professor Huang Qiu won the First Prize and the Second Prize respectively in the Jiangxi Provincial Young Teachers' Teaching Competition. Associate Professor Zhang Mingbo won the Second Prize in the Curriculum Ideological and Political Teaching Competition for Isomorphic Courses of Mathematical Statistics, sponsored by the National Alliance of Finance and Economics MOOCs of Chinese Universities. Many young teachers have been selected as Top Ten Teachers and Gold Medal Teachers of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics.

Teaching and Research Achievements

​In recent years, the school has made remarkable achievements in teaching, scientific research and serving the local economy, etc. The school has undertaken more than 200 horizontal topics at national, provincial and ministerial level. The school has established a national-level experimental teaching demonstration center “economic management and entrepreneurship simulation experimental teaching center” -- computer aided telephone investigation (CATI) laboratory. In 2017 alone, the school established 9 national-level scientific research programs. Among them, “statistical measurement research on poverty exit assessment” was approved by National Social Science Fund of China for major bidding programs. The school has published more than 40 authoritative theses.16 provincial-level programs approved; set up 5 horizontal programs of various types, with a total program budget of more than RMB 2 million yuan. In 2018, the school won the bid for national poverty alleviation verification program, and received more than RMB 5 million yuan in funding.

Talent Training Effect and School Reputation

    The employment of statistics major in the school is known as “three high” (high employment quality, high employment rate, and high admission rate of postgraduate entrance examination). Since the university made statistics of the employment rate ranking of each school in 2002, the regular employment rate of statistics major ranked the top three in the school for 7 consecutive years from 2002 to 2008. Among them, the regular employment rate from 2002 to 2006 ranked the first in the whole school, and won all the awards of employment work for graduates from our school. It is the only demonstration site of employment work in the whole school. At the same time, in 2006, statistics major was ranked as the eighth undergraduate employment rate in the province, and became the only economics major among the top ten.