The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Postdoctoral Management Committee issued the Notice on Approval of 339 New Postdoctoral Research Centers recently. A new postdoctoral research center of Applied Economics will be established in SEC.
This subject in SEC has been developing for decades. “Industrial Economics was opened in 1987, master station of “Finance” and secondary doctoral station of “Financial Engineering and Economic Development” were established in 2003. First-level master and doctoral centers of “Applied Economics” were set up respectively in 2011 and 2015. In 2017, SEC signed an agreement with the School of Economics of the University of Queensland to contribute to this discipline together. After years of development, SEC has formed a complete academic training system, including undergraduate, first-level master and doctoral station of Applied Economics, and professional master programs of Finance and International Trade. Leveraging merits in the Guangdong-Hongkong-Macao Greater Bay Area, SEC has accumulated academically a lot in Finance, Regional Economics, International Trade, Econometrics and Financial Engineering.
After this approval, this post-doctoral research station will focus on economic and social demands in Guangdong Province and the whole China. It will recruit excellent post-doctors with potentials for fundamental and applied researches according to its edges. These young men are expected to become talents at national or provincial level, who will devote to educational business of their majors based on selection mechanism in the school, optimizing teaching staff in higher education institutes.
