As a discipline based in a city at the forefront of economic reform and opening-up, the Economics Department has always regarded serving economic openness and cooperation as its mission. It is guided by the needs of social and economic development, leveraging the advantages of Sino-Russian cooperative education. The department seizes the opportunities presented by the nation's vigorous promotion of the Greater Bay Area's economic development, economic globalization, and digital transformation. It aims to produce landmark research outcomes that provide theoretical support for Sino-Russian strategic cooperation and collaboration with countries along the Belt and Road Initiative.
The Economics Department focuses on the development of applied economics as its core, integrating traditional disciplinary research with the needs of economic and social development. It explores research directions such as digital economy, digital trade, and digital finance, as well as cross-border investment and strategy, digital economy and governance, quantitative economic theory and application, and behavioral science and economic decision-making. This approach has begun to form a distinctive research advantage and characteristic.
With the rapid development of emerging technologies such as blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, their impact on finance, economics, and social development has become increasingly apparent. In response, the Economics Department has partnered with businesses to establish a Digital Finance Research Center. This center focuses on research areas such as artificial intelligence and quantitative investment, financial technology and regulatory policies, financial technology innovation and application, and digital finance and business models. It aims to cultivate talents in financial technology innovation and management for the country and society and to serve the development of the local society and economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
After several years of effort, the Economics Department has achieved notable accomplishments in scientific research. It has been approved as a Guangdong Provincial Innovation Research Team. Faculty members have undertaken and participated in a total of 46 national-level research projects funded by organizations such as the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Technology Complex, Russian International Airlines, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, Beijing Science and Technology Commission, and the China-Germany Science Center. The total research funding amounts to nearly 9 million RMB. The department has published over 300 academic papers, more than 110 textbooks and monographs, and its research achievements have received innovation awards from professional organizations such as the China Information Economics Society.
