Jilin University of Finance and Economics，established in September 1948, has a history of fifty-eight years. Diachronically it has the following predecessors: Northeast General Headquarter Banking Training Class, Northeast Banking Leader School, Northeast Banking Special School, Changchun Banking School, Jilin Finance and Trade College and Finance and Economics School of Jilin Province. It was renamed as Jilin Financial and Trade College in 1978, and in 1992 it was put under the administration of State Bureau of taxation and changed the name to Changchun Taxation College. Until 2000, it was under the direct jurisdiction of Jilin province, and now it has become a leading provincial college. In March 2010, with the approval of the Ministry of Education of China and Jilin Provincial Government, the college has officially changed its name to Jilin University of Finance and Economics. Since it was set up, Jilin University of Finance and Economics changed the location from Jia Musi, Harbin, and Shenyang, finally to Changchun in July 1950. It firstly stood in Banking Building near Renming Square, then No.3646 Renming Street. In August 2005, it was moved to No.3699 Jingyue Street.

Jilin University of Finance and Economics is a comprehensive financial university, which welcomes to the students all over the country. Besides the undergraduate education, it offers a variety of programs. It now has graduate program, adult higher, training program for the professionals and collaboration programs with foreign colleges. The university boasts six disciplinary areas covering thirty-two academic disciplines for undergraduates, including economics, management, law, science, engineering and arts. Among which it has six provincial key disciplines, and twenty for the postgraduate.

Jilin University of Finance and Economics has now nineteen teaching departments, including ten scientific research centers, such as Jilin economics research center, and economics simulation research institute etc. The university boasts a qualified faculty of over 427 full-time teachers, including 235 full professors and associate professors, and 74 doctors. One of them enjoys the special subsidy from the State Council, one is trans-century talent for the Ministry of Education, three are senior specialists of Jilin province, and four are top class talents of Jilin province.

Jilin University of Finance and Economics now has an enrollment of 8,360 full-time undergraduates, 423 postgraduates. Another over 8000 students are studying at the schools of Continuing Education. The high school graduates are taken in Jilin University of Finance and Economics programs primarily on the basis of their performance in the National Entrance Exam. After four academic years, more than 90% of the undergraduates can be employed. Jilin University of Finance and Economics has cultivated more than 200,000 professionals in finance and economics during the past 60 years, and most of whom have proved to be backbones in their careers. Some have been the leading cadres of government service, and some have become the key members of the leadership of the enterprises and institutions, still some have become talents in academics. Among the seven vice governors of Jilin province, two of them graduated from Jilin University of Finance and Economics.

There is strong academic atmosphere in the university: Recently the university has assumed 167 national, ministerial or provincial scientific research projects, published 156 books, edited or co-edited 30 published textbooks directed by Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, and state Bureau of Taxation, and 1,800 academic papers in core magazines. 296 achievements in scientific research won provincial (ministerial) level and above awards. “Modern Economics Research”, co-edited with China research association of “Capital”, and journal “Taxation and Economics” have become core periodicals in economics in China.

Jilin University of Finance and Economics library claims a collection of 700,000 volumes, and each year more than 1400 periodicals at home and abroad are subscribed. The university established 46 well-equipped laboratories, including the ERP teaching laboratory, electronic commerce laboratory, computer compositional theory laboratory, computer software laboratory, accounting computerization laboratory, taxation simulation laboratory, banking business simulation laboratory, and international trade simulation laboratory. And some software systems for practical teaching, such as Shihua digital satellite system for market quotation data and CTIAS are built too.

Jilin University of Finance and Economics has established worldwide exchange and intercollegiate collaboration relationship with many universities, where are Atlantic University of U.S.A., Youngstown State University of U.S.A., the university of Regina in Canada, the University of New South Walse and Charles Sturt University in Australia, Far-east Commercial University of Russia, Waseda University, Teikyo University, Tokyo Management College, Tokyo Taxation College, Korean National Taxation College, Kangnam University, Cheongju University, and Seoul National University. And the collaboration with Charles Sturt University has been ratified as the first batch of the international cooperation program by the State Council, which owns over 2,000 students.

As a basement of training taxation leaders, Jilin University of Finance and Economics has educated almost 3000 of them recently. Even nearly 100 high ranking leaders in the present taxation department have had classes here.

Jilin University of Finance and Economics moved to Jingyuetan Economics Development District in 2005. The new campus is located near the mountains and rivers. It covers an area of 1,100,000 square meters with the built-up area of 220,000 square meters, among which the teaching building makes up 36,000 square meters, and 10,000 students can have classes at the same time. The university library designed for 1,300,000 books covers 26,000 square meters. The library buildings hold over 4000 seats altogether. The building for laboratories covers an area of 160,000 square meters, which holds nearly 30 laboratories. And other major buildings include: 100,000 square meters the dormitories, 15,000 for the dining halls.

Our goal in the nearby future is to build a university which is getting established in proper scale, reasonable structure with high-quality education, to develop the university by distinguishable features, to show national influence in China, and to be the top class multi-disciplinary finance and economics university.