The full name of Shanghe Economic and Trade College is "China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Economic and Trade College". The construction is mainly implemented by Qingdao University, integrating the resources and strength of Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College, Shandong University (Qingdao), Qingdao Research Institute of Fudan University and university of international business and economics, and relying on the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization to organize local economic and trade cooperation demonstration zones, focusing on building an open platform for economic, trade and international scientific and technological cooperation.

At present, 28 foreign aid training and economic and trade training have been carried out in international logistics and transportation, cross-border electronic commerce and other countries, covering 43 SCO countries; From its attributes, we can easily see that it is a social science university of economy and trade, and a small and beautiful research university with economy, trade and management as its main subjects. The scale of running a school should not be too large, starting with "colleges" rather than "universities".

Shanghe College of Economics and Business is not only an independent college, but also a part of Shanghe Campus of Qingdao University. It can be understood as a characteristic college taking Qingdao University as the carrier and undertaking the establishment of Shanghe Economic and Trade Development Research Center.

Because the Shanghe Campus of Qingdao University is the former Jiaozhou Campus, the new campus has reasonable planning and well-equipped teaching work, mainly focusing on medicine and engineering, supplemented by arts and sciences; On the eve of listing, Qingdao University established Shanghe Training Center here, and appointed four deans as the director and deputy director of the training center, which fully reflected the importance that Qingdao University attached to Shanghe College of Economics and Business.