Central University of Finance and Economics is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a key university under the national "2 1 1 engineering" and the national "985 innovation platform for engineering advantages" (innovation platform for economics and public policy advantages). It is a high-level financial and economic university jointly established by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Beijing, and has the qualification to recommend "public graduate students of national high-level universities" to world-renowned universities.

The school was born in the same year of 1949 New China. It is the first new higher financial institution founded by the Central People's Government. It has experienced many stages of development, such as the Central Taxation Institute, the Central Finance Institute, the Central Finance Institute, the Central Finance and Economics Institute, and the Central Finance University.

For a long time, generations have been deeply concerned by the party and the state, and have trained nearly100000 high-quality talents for national economic construction and social development. Known as "the cradle of financial experts in China", it enjoys a wide social reputation.