On June 17, National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences released the evaluation results of the application for the 2016 NSSFC projects. The project applied by Mr. Zhuang Jiaqiang from IIDPF, A Study of Debt Servicing Capacity and Debt Raising Space of Chinese County Governments under Regional Heterogeneity was approved as a general project of Applied Economics. It is reported that 21 projects from ZUEL were approved in 2016, including 13 general projects and 8 Youth Science Fund projects, with an approval rate of 19.1% and a total grant of 4.2 million RMB, which ranked the forefront of universities in finance and law across the country.