On the morning of July 31, 2020, the 12th meeting of the 10th Academic Degree Evaluation Committee of South China University of Technology was held in Duxing Building. The meeting discussed and approved the plan for setting up a second-level doctoral program in law and economics.

The second-level discipline doctoral program of law and economics is a interdisciplinary doctoral program relying on applied economics doctoral program of first-level discipline, established by organizing the relevant research forces of the law discipline. With the support and guidance of the school, the doctoral program is planned to be under the overall planning of the construction of the doctoral program in applied economics, undertakes the main construction tasks (including recruitment and training management, etc.) by the law school, committed to expanding the research field of applied economics, strengthening the specialty of law and economics and helping the realization of the development goal of law discipline