Future Plan of the School of Insurance and Economics

1. Disciplinary Development

1）The School of Insurance Economics (SIE) will increase the extent of its contribution to the development of the discipline of applied economics and assist the University of International Business and Economics in obtaining an A+ rating in applied economics in the new round of discipline assessment organized by the Chinese Ministry of Education.

2）On the basis of the successful selection of the major of insurance as one of the national top-ranking majors in the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" and the selection of actuarial science as one of the top-ranking majors in Beijing, the School of Insurance Economics (SIE) will strive to have the discipline of actuarial science enter the national key discipline construction team and the discipline of labor and social security enter the Beijing key discipline construction team. The actuarial experiment class will strive to enter the Ministry of Education's "Six Excellence and One Top" Talent Training Program 2.0.

3)In the next three years, the School of Insurance Economics will consolidate the construction of traditional disciplines such as risk management and insurance, and increase the construction of a large risk management discipline group based on quantitative analysis; we will consolidate the development of actuarial science to provide comprehensive technical support for the development of the large risk management discipline group, and develop special disciplines of labor and social security to condense professional characteristics. At the same time, the School of Insurance Economics will promote the construction of health economics in order to provide the outline of the "Health China 2030" plan.

4) The School of Insurance Economics will use artificial intelligence and big data to help develop cross-fertilization of disciplines. We will promote the intersection of labor economics and actuarial science, and actively develop the study of social insurance actuarial theory and its policy analysis. Moreover, we will give full play to the advantages of insurance technology and optimize the layout of disciplines; improve the mechanism for access, adjustment and withdrawal of majors, and accelerate the transformation of traditional disciplines and majors.

5)The School of Insurance Economics will attempt to build one doctoral degree authorization point in insurance in the next three years. We will explore the establishment of a research team of faculty members in the main office + local post-docs, create a platform for integrated cooperation between industry, academia, research and university-enterprise and local communities, and enhance the ability to serve regional economic and social development. We will also rely on the off-campus research system to enhance our social service capabilities across the board. Through the Yangtze River Delta Trade Research Institute, we will integrate into the construction of the regional economic integration of the Yangtze River Delta. Through the four research institutes in Qingdao, Shenzhen, Hainan and Chengdu, we will innovate institutional mechanisms and closely integrate with the actual needs of local governments and enterprises, and give corresponding personalized policy support.

2. Faculty Development

1)The School of Insurance Economics will continue to promote the introduction of distinguished scholars and mature scholars and the introduction and training of promising young scholars, optimize the professional structure of the faculty team, and enhance the strength and level of introduction of high-level talents. In the next three years, the School of Insurance Economics will focus on introducing 10 faculty members in the fields of risk theory and life insurance actuarial research, and 2 faculty members in the Department of Labor Economics and Social Security, making a total of 12 faculty members.

2)The School of Insurance Economics will optimize the faculty-to-student ratio by supplementing the faculty to keep it within 1:25. By 2025, the number of full professors in the School of Insurance Economics will reach 16 and the number of associate professors will be 27. The School of Insurance Economics will improve and expand the dual tutor system, expand the scale and improve the quality of external faculty. The number of external part-time teachers from enterprises and industries will reach 50, and the total number of annual lecture hours taught by external part-time teachers from enterprises and industries will reach 160. The School of Insurance Economics will ensure that there are excellent resources of external tutors for professional degree masters and sufficient reserves of tutors for international students.

3)The School of Insurance Economics will cultivate two teaching teams with high teaching standards and reasonable structures in the next three years; implement the project of famous teaching teachers, cultivate a famous teaching teacher in Beijing and a famous teaching teacher at the national level (10,000 people plan), and play a leading role in their teaching.

4)The School of Insurance Economics will continue to conduct extensive teaching and research activities, and the school will provide financial support for grassroots teaching and research activities such as group lesson observation, teaching design competitions and teaching method seminars. The School of Insurance Economics will strengthen training for teachers on blended teaching, flipped classroom and combined online and offline teaching methods to improve their ability to integrate the Internet with education in depth. We will actively create opportunities to strengthen exchanges between teachers and government agencies and industry enterprises through various forms to further enhance the capacity and influence of social services.

3. Enrolment Promotion and Student Employment

1)The School of Insurance and Economics will continue to improve the quality of employment of graduates and encourage them to continue their studies in prestigious universities at home and abroad. We will continue to maintain the record of 100% employment for postgraduate students for many years in a row to enhance the employment competitiveness and sustainable development potential of students. For the entrance examination, the School of Insurance Economics will encourage all faculty members to participate in the recruitment and promotion work, and encourage the recognition of advanced individuals in recruitment and promotion work.

2)The School of Insurance Economics will focus on strengthening cooperation with the insurance industry. On the basis of cooperation with a number of insurance companies and institutions such as China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation, China Reinsurance Group, New China Life, China Pacific Insurance, China People's Health Insurance Company, Hua Gui Insurance Company, China Insurance Association and Beijing Insurance Association to set up extracurricular internship bases, at least one new cooperative unit will be added each year. The School of Insurance Economics will strengthen communication and cooperation with industry organizations and actively introduce industry teachers to teach cutting-edge content in the industry, such as insurance technology, so that students can be exposed to the latest developments in the insurance industry as early as possible. The School of Insurance Economics will mobilize faculty resources and alumni resources to expand employment channels and establish an award for outstanding employment contributions. The School of Insurance and Economics will reward teachers who actually resolve the employment of graduates, depending on the situation.

4. Scientific research

1）The School of Insurance Economics will steadily promote the system of scientific research masterpieces under the deployment of the university, and improve the reward system for outstanding scientific research achievements. We will establish a multi-dimensional evaluation mechanism for academic papers and think tank reports, so that each teacher can give full play to his or her academic expertise and research characteristics, advocate academic innovation in theoretical research, and encourage the strengthening of the ability to serve the major strategic needs of the country, and strive to solve the bottleneck problems in the process of national development.

2）Under the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, we study the risk control of China's going out from the perspective of national strategy. The School of Insurance Economics will make a breakthrough in the research of insurance theory with Chinese characteristics under the new development pattern of "the main domestic cycle and the dual domestic and international cycles promoting each other". We aspire to study the unique developing country-specific system to address the financial and insurance needs arising from economic development.

3）The School of Insurance Economics encourages faculty members to contribute to the development of the country and to produce reports and policy recommendations with policy implications. We want to strengthen our efforts in building three think tanks: the first think tank is a reinsurance research think tank to help China Reinsurance Group study global risk disaster distribution, reinsurance arrangement and optimization; the second think tank is a country risk analysis think tank to help CITIC Insurance Country Risk Research Center to study the development of country risk research; the third think tank is a health insurance think tank to provide decision basis and intellectual support for national government departments. The School of Insurance Economics encourages more mature scholars to join the government's expert advisory committees. Encourage the publication of 10 influential books, and receive 3 instructions from national leaders and 15 instructions from provincial and ministerial leaders.

4）While the number of international publications is steadily increasing, the School of Insurance Economics should strengthen the connection and cooperation with top domestic journals; hire domestic and foreign experts and scholars to give lectures, and use all resources to encourage and help teachers to participate in academic activities at home and abroad, so that each teacher can give full play to their academic expertise and research characteristics.

5）The School of Insurance Economics advocates academic innovation in theoretical research, publishing 4 papers in international core journals of A and A-class, 10 papers in B-class, and 50 papers in SSCI, SCI and A&HCI journals; 10 papers in domestic A-class journals such as Economic Research and Management World, and 30 papers in B+ and B-class in the next three years.

6）The School of Insurance Economics actively encourages teachers to declare various subject projects, including various vertical projects and horizontal projects. The School takes high-end platform construction as a channel, gives full play to the role of research bases and innovation centers, actively declares Beijing philosophy and social science research bases, integrates academic resources inside and outside the University, declares major topics and major projects, and jointly researches and solves major problems in the real economy. We will continue to increase the number and proportion of national major and key projects; strive for more high-level international projects and promote the construction of high-level disciplinary platforms. In the next three years, the School of Insurance Economics will declare one major project of national, Ministry of Education and Beijing Social Science, three national key projects, seven national topics and ten provincial and ministerial topics. The total amount of scientific research funding has made a new breakthrough, including vertical funding exceeding 6 million and horizontal funding exceeding 6 million.

7）We will prepare to build an innovative practice platform in the next three years, and build a cloud computing experiment platform, which will be used to make up for the hardware bottleneck and code optimization problems encountered in big data processing and analysis. The College of Insurance Economics will continue to explore the establishment of a cloud computing experimental platform adapted to the context of big data, cloud computing and complex models by relying on Ali cloud services. We will gradually establish an innovative practice platform, rely on insurance companies and other social forces to prepare for the establishment of health insurance and medical insurance related data centers, and prepare for the establishment of the "Belt and Road" country risk database. We will gradually create laboratories or research centers for behavioral insurance, insurance technology, green insurance, agricultural insurance, risk hedging, social insurance actuarial, asset-liability matching, etc. in phases; deploy international and domestic examination centers and data centers for insurance and actuarial according to demand.

8）The College of Insurance Economics will continue to hire domestic and foreign experts and scholars to give lectures and encourage teachers to participate in academic activities at home and abroad to enhance the discourse of the College teachers in high-end journals. 3 teachers of the College have entered the editorial boards of core journals at home and abroad.

5. International Exchange

1）The School of Insurance Economics will actively promote student exchange programs, faculty exchange programs, and joint training programs for master's students with the United States. We will hold high-level international academic forums and regularly publish the results of relevant research reports to expand the international influence of the discipline.

2）In terms of internationalization of the faculty, we will increase the efforts of overseas recruitment, continue to recruit outstanding young scholars from overseas, and encourage new faculty members to have more than one year of overseas study and research experience. The College of Insurance Economics will introduce world-class scholars and experts to lecture, teach and conduct cooperative research at the university, and declare foreign expert projects of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.

3）The School of Insurance Economics always focuses on the internationalization of student training, and we will continue to improve the system of exchanging or transferring relevant courses abroad with local courses in China, establish a clear system of credit recognition and transfer, explore various forms of "short-term study abroad", "student exchange We will explore various forms of cooperation such as "short-term study abroad" and "student exchange" to encourage students to go abroad for exchange. We want to ensure that undergraduates with overseas study experience account for more than 10% of the total number of undergraduates enrolled, and we hope that the proportion of master's students with overseas experience will account for 20%, and we will strive to achieve the goal of 80% overseas study experience for doctoral students.

4）The College of Insurance Economics intends to introduce professors from famous foreign universities to offer 30 courses through the summer school, improve the professional settings of international graduate students, and provide training services for more international graduate students. We are determined to integrate into the "One Belt, One Road" finance and economics university alliance, try to recruit 2+2 program students for foreign students, and train more master and doctoral students to study in China.