With the deepening of reform and opening up, the discipline construction of the School of Economics has made new progress and formed a rich and complete discipline system. 198 1 political economy was awarded the first master's degree in China, and 1986 industrial economics was awarded the doctor's degree, which laid a solid foundation for the development of economics in our school. Since the 1990s, especially with the promotion of the key discipline project "2 1 1 Engineering", the discipline construction of the college has achieved fruitful results, the influence of disciplines has been significantly enhanced, and the overall level of economic disciplines has reached the domestic advanced level. In 2004, our college ranked 12 in the first-level discipline evaluation of applied economics organized by the Ministry of Education. At present, the School of Economics has the only right to award doctoral degrees in the first-class discipline of applied economics in South China, with two doctoral programs:11; Have a postdoctoral mobile station of applied economics; Have the right to award doctoral degrees in two disciplines of political economy in theoretical economics; The master's degree course covers all disciplines of theoretical and applied economics.

Industrial Economics established by School of Economics and School of Management is a national key discipline. Finance is a national key discipline; Finance College is a key research base of humanities and social sciences in Guangdong universities. Finance, statistics, international economy and trade were rated as famous brands in Guangdong Province. "Money and Banking" and "Principles of Statistics" were rated as provincial-level excellent courses in colleges and universities in Guangdong Province. Marxist political economy was rated as the entity construction course of ideological and political theory course in colleges and universities in Guangdong Province. After 30 years of construction and development, the School of Economics has formed a high-level discipline group of applied economics and theoretical economics, and has a perfect high-standard talent training system. At present, the college has a first-class doctoral program in applied economics, and two doctoral programs 10 in national economics, industrial economics, finance, finance, regional economics, international trade, labor economics, statistics, quantitative economics and enterprise finance and investment (among which industrial economics and finance are national key disciplines); He has a doctorate in theoretical economics and a master's degree in theoretical economics in two disciplines; The master's program covers all disciplines of theoretical economics and applied economics; Undergraduate education has eight majors (directions), including economics (investment economy), finance (insurance), statistics (actuarial science), international economy and trade, and finance.