The Ministry of Education has issued a notice announcing the first batch of universities and teams selected to compile textbooks on Chinese economics. Among them, the team led by Professor Yang Canming, President of ZUEL and Director of the IIDPF, was selected to compile the textbook Chinese Finance Studies. According to the Notice of the Office of the National Textbook Committee on the Declaration of the First Batch of Chinese Economics Textbooks, a total of 25 teams from 13 universities were selected for the first batch of Chinese economics textbooks after qualification, written examination and conference defence.
The letter issued by the Ministry of Education on 13 October 2020 states that, it is of great significance to promote the construction of Chinese economics textbooks, which is an urgent need to summarise the great achievements made in China's economic practice. The Ministry of Education attached great importance to the issue and proposed that, in order to thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in a new era and to implement Xi Jinping's economic thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, it is urgent to strengthen the construction of Chinese economics textbooks by closely combining the practice of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, drawing on the practices of international economics theory research and teaching materials construction, and inheriting and carrying forward the excellent Chinese traditional economic thought.
The Ministry of Education plans to take about three years to compile and revise a number of new and original high-level economics textbook series that reflect the Chinese position, Chinese theory, Chinese practice and Chinese discourse, and to initially form a system of economics textbooks with Chinese characteristics. The team of Chinese Finance Studies led by Professor Yang Canming was selected for the first batch of China Economics Textbook Compilation Programme, which fully reflects the strength and height of ZUEL's finance discipline construction.