According to this plan, the Ministry of Education plans to build about 30 brand columns of university journals that represent the academic level of Chinese universities, enjoy high academic reputation at home and abroad, and play an important role in solving the problems of reform, opening up, socialist modernization, cultural accumulation and inheritance, and discipline construction within 3-5 years. Through the construction of social science registration column in colleges and universities, the professional level of social science journals in colleges and universities in China can be improved, the brand effect of social science journals in colleges and universities can be highlighted, the overall level and quality of social science journals in colleges and universities can be improved, and the research of philosophy and social science in colleges and universities can be prospered.
On the same day, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice of the Ministry of Education on the First Application for the Construction of the Registration Column of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities", and started the application for the first registration column.