November 2010 -- Establishment of Research Center of Income Distribution. Professor Yang Canming, a renowned financial scientist, is the director.
July 2011 -- RCID launches the first phase of the nationwide "China Household Income Survey".
March 2013 -- RCID won the First Prize of the 6th Science Research Famous Achievement Award in Higher Institution (Humanities and Social Sciences).
August 2013 -- RCID establishes its first domestic sub-centre at Qinghai University.
September 2015 -- RCID held the first joint meeting of the China Research Centre for Income Distribution Base in Qinghai.
December 2016 -- RCID was selected as one of the top 100 think tanks in China, overall ranking the 1st among 211-Project-University think tanks.
March 2017 -- RCID established its first overseas branch at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia.
December 2017 -- RCID and Economic Research Journal co-organised the first Academic Symposium on Income and Wealth Distribution in China.
April 2018 -- Experimental Research Centre) RCID establishes Field Experimental Research Centre.
July 2018 -- RCID organised the first field experimental research course in China, jointly with the University of Nottingham.
March 2019 -- RCID established its second overseas branch centre at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
June 2020 -- RCID renamed as Institute of Income Distribution and Public Finance (IIDPF).