Heilongjiang University of Finance and Economic

Heilongjiang University of Finance and Economic is located in the University Town of New District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. It was established in April 1999 and was initiated by Heilongjiang Deqiang Industrial Group for investment. Its initial name was Harbin Deqiang Vocational College. In September 2008, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to become the first independent private ordinary undergraduate institution in China and Heilongjiang Province. It was renamed Harbin Deqiang Business College. In April 2013, it was renamed Heilongjiang Finance College. The school earnestly implements the Party's educational policy, adheres to the socialist educational orientation, fulfills the fundamental task of fostering virtue and cultivating talents, and is based on the "local, applied, and open" educational positioning. It adheres to the educational philosophy of "deepening foundations, innovating mechanisms, enhancing quality, refining characteristics, and opening up development", aiming to serve for development, seek support through contribution, scientifically plan the school's development, carry out industry-university-research cooperation education, cultivate and refine the school's educational characteristics, forming a comparative advantage and characteristics in cultivating application-oriented talents in finance-related fields, and striving to move towards the goal of building a distinctive first-class applied finance university. The school is a local applied undergraduate college mainly focusing on economics and management disciplines, with the coordinated development of economics, management, engineering, literature, law, art, general education, Marxist studies, and physical education and military education departments. It has 10 teaching units, including the School of Economics, School of Accounting, School of Finance, School of Management, School of Financial Information Engineering, School of Humanities, School of Art, General Education College, School of Marxism, and Physical Education and Military Education Department. It offers 33 undergraduate programs covering economics, management, engineering, literature, law, and art. Currently, there are 587.5 full-time teachers, 12,595 full-time undergraduate students, and a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.44:1. Among them, there are 477 full-time teachers, accounting for 81.19%. The school began to independently set up the Party committee in February 2009, with organizational affiliation under the Provincial Committee of Education. Currently, it has 8 Party branches, 3 directly affiliated Party branches, and 45 grassroots Party branches, with 762 Party members.

The school is a key private university under the "1115 Project" of the "Plan for Building a Strong Higher Education Province in Heilongjiang Province", a pilot unit for modern university system construction in the province, a vice-chairman unit of the Higher Education Professional Committee of the China Association of Private Education, a deputy president unit of the Provincial Association of Private Education, and a member unit of the Provincial Association of Higher Education for Ideological and Political Education. Through years of educational practice, it has been successively rated as a characteristic applied-type undergraduate demonstration university in Heilongjiang Province, a model campus for civility in the province, a "Party Building Demonstration University" of private higher education in Heilongjiang Province, a pilot university of the "Industry-University-Research Alliance" in Heilongjiang Province, and one of the Party branches was selected as a benchmark department for national party building, and one of the Party branches was selected as a model branch for national party building. It has received more than 30 honorary titles such as the Advanced Collective in Caring for the Next Generation of the Whole Country, the Advanced Collective for Teachers' Ethics in Heilongjiang Province, and the Safe and Harmonious Campus in Heilongjiang Province.