Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is a research-oriented key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), which focuses on the discipline of economic management and the coordinated development of economics, management, law, literature, science and philosophy. It is the first batch of world-class discipline construction universities in China, and also a key university under the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform".