Chapter one. The master thesis of Shanxi University of Finance and Economics requires 30,000 words. The general word count is the corrected word count, that is, the first chapter to the last chapter, excluding abstracts, catalogues, acknowledgements, references, appendices, etc. And it is the number of words rather than the number of characters. For example, a graduation thesis of 30,000 words is a Chinese character of 30,000 words, excluding punctuation and spaces.