The main work of the center is to carry out the "China Family Finance Survey" (CHFS for short) nationwide. Its main purpose is to collect micro-level information about family finance, including: housing assets and financial wealth; Debt and credit restrictions; Income; Consumption; Social security and insurance; Intergenerational transfer payment; Demographic characteristics and employment; Payment habits and other related information. The center plans to investigate every two years, and the sample size is about 10000 families. China Family Finance Research Center is a non-profit academic research institution, which provides high-quality micro-family finance data for academic research and policy decision-making, and promotes the research on family finance in China. Survey data will be open to the public free of charge. 20 10 on April 3rd, the inaugural meeting and seminar of China Family Finance Research Center of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics was held in the conference room on the second floor of Sumitomo Garden. Zhang Wei, Director of Research Bureau of People's Bank of China, Deputy Director of Management Science Department of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Pan, Deputy Director of Prosperity Monitoring Center of National Bureau of Statistics, Vice President of Chengdu Branch of People's Bank of China, Xiong Zuyuan, Deputy Director of Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Statistics, scholars from Peking University and China Renmin University, and relevant leaders of Sichuan Banking Regulatory Bureau, Financial Office of Sichuan Provincial People's Government and Financial Work Office of Chengdu Municipal People's Government attended the inaugural meeting. President Zhao Dewu, Vice President Ma Xiao, heads of relevant colleges and functional departments of the school, and representatives of some teachers and students from the School of Economics and Management attended the meeting. The conference consists of two stages: the inaugural meeting of China Family Finance Research Center, the seminar of China Family Finance Research Scheme and questionnaire design. Vice President Ma Xiao presided over the inaugural meeting of China Family Finance Research Center of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.

At the meeting, Director Zhang Jianhua and President Zhao Dewu signed a cooperation agreement on behalf of both parties, which unveiled the China Family Finance Research and Research Center and awarded the license to Li Gan, director of the China Family Finance Research and Research Center. President Zhao Dewu delivered a warm speech. First of all, on behalf of the school, he extended a warm welcome to the leaders and guests, and expressed heartfelt thanks to the leaders and friends who have long cared for and supported the development of our school. President Zhao pointed out that family finance survey can provide strong data support for financial policy formulation, scientific research and financial product design. At the same time, the construction of China Family Finance Research Center is also of great significance for the school to build a brand of "discipline group with great financial advantages" and promote the process of building a high-level university of finance and economics with distinctive characteristics. Therefore, the school will fully support the construction of this center. Zhang Jianhua, director of the Research Bureau of the People's Bank of China, made an important speech at the inaugural meeting. He pointed out that the current financial research has moved towards the integration stage of theoretical framework, data support and model analysis, and it is very important to obtain accurate financial data. Pan, deputy director of the prosperity monitoring center of the National Bureau of Statistics, fully affirmed the significance of establishing the China Family Finance Research Center from the aspects of endogenous power changes in national economic growth and guiding residents' investment.

Subsequently, in the keynote speech and the seminar on the survey scheme and questionnaire design of Chinese family finance, Director Li Gan introduced the recent research plan of the Center. Zhang Wei, deputy director, gave wonderful speeches on data survey, Peking University Professor Zhao's follow-up survey on health and old-age care in China, Professor Zhao's follow-up survey on Chinese family dynamics, Professor Zhang Wei's survey on China, and Professor China Renmin University's comprehensive survey on China's society. Yan Yuan and Jia Nan, two teachers from the Center, respectively explained and reported the questionnaire and sampling design of "China Family Finance Survey". The experts at the meeting put forward many constructive opinions and suggestions. They also said that the establishment of the center will fill the gap in domestic family financial investigation on the basis of existing investigation fields, which is of great significance to financial research. The establishment of China Family Finance Research Center has been highly concerned by the news media, and many media from inside and outside the province came to cover this important event.