The economics discipline of Xiamen University originated from the business department at the beginning of Xiamen University 192 1, and belongs to the Department of Economics. In the 1940s, Wang Yanan, a famous economist and educator of the older generation in the Republic of China and the first translator of Marx's Das Kapital, taught at Xiamen University, and founded the distinctive "China Economics" school of Xiamen University, which was based on Marxist economics and studied China's economic problems from the standpoint of China people.
It was unique among universities in China at that time, and made a landmark contribution to the economic construction of China, laying a solid foundation for the economics discipline of Xiamen University. After a hundred years of tempering and baptism, the economics discipline of Xiamen University has become one of the most important dominant disciplines and pillar disciplines of Xiamen University.
At present, Xiamen University's economics discipline includes three teaching and scientific research units: School of Economics, Wang Yanan Institute of Economics (WISE) and Zou Zhizhuang Economic Research Center, forming a "trinity" development pattern. The School of Economics has excellent teaching and research conditions, strong academic atmosphere and extensive academic exchanges. Actively explore and develop academic exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries and implement the "academic brand strategy".