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).