The advanced research center of Wuhan University was formerly the advanced research center of economic science of Wuhan University, which was established in May 1994. 1999, the teaching and research fields have been expanded to philosophy, world history, comparative philosophy between China and the West, China studies and other disciplines, and it has been officially renamed as the Center for Advanced Studies of Wuhan University. Professor Zou Hengfu, the founder and director of the Center, a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and a senior economist from the World Bank, has been devoted to the research and teaching of basic sciences, trying to change the situation that domestic basic disciplines, especially economics and humanities and social sciences, lag behind the international academic frontier through internationalization and standardization of running schools, and has made many breakthroughs in the fields of high-level specialized personnel training, scientific research and international academic exchanges.

The center is now composed of mathematical economics and finance, comparative philosophy between China and the West, world history and China studies. The Academic Committee consists of nearly 30 world-class scholars, including Jean-Jacques Lafonte, jean tirole, robert barro and eric maskin, and has nearly 40 well-known professors and lecturers at home and abroad.