About the program

The discipline of applied economics in Jiangsu University originated from the majors of industrial foreign trade, statistics, finance, insurance, finance and so on which were successively established since the 1980s. Approved Master of Statistics in 1999; Approved Master of International Trade in 2003; Approved Master of Applied Economics in 2010. In 2012, based on the major of international trade and energy economy, it was approved as the key major construction point of economy and trade in Jiangsu province. In 2015, it was granted the right to award the master's degree in international business, and in 2016, it was approved as the key discipline in the 13th five-year plan of Jiangsu province.
There are 52 full-time teachers in the discipline, including 13 professors, 27 associate professors, 26 master supervisors, and 31 doctors. There are 20 teachers with overseas study and visiting experience. There are 3 third-level training objects of project 333 in Jiangsu province, 1 outstanding young and middle-aged academic leader of project Qing Lan in Jiangsu province, and 2 outstanding young backbone teachers of the university. Many teachers serve as members of the first steering committee of economics teaching in Jiangsu province, the education and guidance committee for graduate students majoring in international business, China world economy association, insurance association, international trade cooperation group and other academic organizations.
Over the years, the discipline has been adhering to the development concept of "based on Jiangsu, relying on industry, integrating disciplines and serving the society", relying on the university's profound engineering background and the multidisciplinary advantages of comprehensive universities, and adhering to the construction idea of "enhancing connotation and creating characteristics"，adhere to the "improve connotation, creating characteristic" the construction of ideas, positive enterprising, innovation, development of dislocation, around the open economy and industry development, international trade and international investment theory and risk management, financial, energy economy and environmental protection, and hot problems in the evaluation of regional economic development and innovation study, took on a number of national natural science foundation, national social science fund series of longitudinal research projects and transverse research topics, such as to produce a batch of excellent scientific research achievements, not only has made an important contribution to theoretical research, and provides the solution of the problems of social and economic development with effective response.