About the College of International Finance and Trade, ZYUFL

The College of International Finance and Trade, one of the colleges of Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages(ZYUFL), is located in the Jinghu campus.

Presently, the College of International Finance and Trade has a teaching staff of 36 regular teachers among whom 50% are full or associate professors, 94.5% have received master’s and/or doctoral degrees and 15 teaches have received doctoral degrees. In order to promote the establishment of academic community and provide talents support for high teaching quality, the college has built multi-level platforms for teacher development through different channels such as vigorously implementing “High-level Talents Introduction Plan”, promoting “Doctor Introduction and Cultivation”, “The Plan of Cultivating Young and Middle-aged Backbone Teachers”, the plan to send teachers to pursue further study abroad, etc. The College of International Finance and Trade includes three departments: the Department of International Trade, the Department of Fiancé and the Department of Taxation which offer four majors for undergraduates: International Economy and Trade, Financial Engineering, Investments and Taxation among which the International Economy and Trade has been listed as Zhejiang provincial emerging characteristic specialty. The college has two Shaoxing Municipal Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers: the Economic Management Experimental Teaching Center and the International Business Experimental Teaching Center. Following the school’s outline of “being based on art discipline supplemented by economics and management to achieve the harmonious integration of different disciplines” and with the advantage of economic discipline as the university-level key discipline, the college has developed the following research directions: Culture and Innovation Industry Management, Industry Structure Adjustment and Upgrading, Financial Innovation and Development, Regional Economy and Enterprise Development, International Trade Theory and Practice, etc. Our teachers have made steady progress in scientific research and teaching research. In recent three years, our teachers have sponsored four municipal government-support research projects and issued seven papers on first grade journals.


Taking full advantage of our school’s 13 foreign language disciplines and comprehensively implementing talents cultivation strategy of “foreign language plus”, the college aims to cultivate applicational, multi-functional talents with “global vision, patriotism and social responsibility”. This talents cultivation mode highlights three major features: (1) Strengthening foreign language learning. By adopting the mode of “foreign language public platform plus professional English”, foreign language educational module ensures that undergraduates have access to foreign language study throughout the four years. What’s more, other channels are also developed to help strengthen students’ foreign language learning such as opening bilingual course, establishing full-English teaching “international class” and ensuring English/bilingual teaching for professional backbone courses. (2) Emphasizing practical experience. The course offering largely depends on local economic specialty and international business development trend. The college has built a platform for students to learn professional knowledge and skills by establishing more than 50 off-campus practice bases through close cooperation with famous enterprises such as Alibaba Group, Hangzhou Pute Education Group, etc. and by inviting well-known entrepreneurs to give face-to-face instruction to our students. This model of school-enterprise cooperation creates ideal environment for teaching practice. (3) Internationally-oriented. Various academic degree obtaining projects have been launched through cooperation with more than ten overseas universities in America, Britain, Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, etc. Those projects include short-term visits for academic purpose, study tour, “3+1” educational mode for four-year students, “3+1+1” educational mode for four-year students to pursue postgraduate degree, etc., aiming to encourage students to pursue overseas study, strengthen their professional abilities and broaden their global view.

Strictly observing school’s guiding principle of cultivating highly qualified, global-minded and application-oriented talents and setting the goal of “aiming high, working down to earth, dedicating to ordinary jobs and striving for excellence”, the college aims to strengthen Party’s construction work, promote college’s development, enhance teaching quality and develop innovative directions. Under the guidance of the school motto of “Harmony, Integrity, Cultivation and Success” as well as the campus culture of “Confidence, Harmony, Competition and Humanity”, the college has organized various forms of voluntary service with international characteristics and launched trainings on entrepreneurship and innovation among students. For many years, the employment rate and the percentage of graduates who signed contracts with employers have always remained above 98% and 95% respectively. Our graduates have been well received by society and employers due to their solid foundation of professional knowledge and comprehensive quality.




A Brief Introduction of the Majors

International Economy and Trade (for four-year undergraduates)

  • Objectives

This major aims at developing highly qualified, global-minded and application-oriented talents in the field of international economy and trade with an all-round development at morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetic. Graduates under this program are required to be equipped with a systematic and solid foundation of the professional knowledge of International Economy and Trade, basic skills and comprehensive capabilities to engage in work related to International Economy and Trade. Specifically speaking, they are expected to serve in such fields as foreign trade business, international finance, international accounting, etc, in economic and trade enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, financial institutions and government organizations.

  • Core Courses

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Basic Accounting, International Marketing, Finance, International Economics, International Trade, Statistics, Econometrics, Public Finance, Political Economics, etc.

  • Degree to Be Awarded

The degree of Bachelor of Economics

  • Employment Prospects

Graduates under this program can competently engage in work related to the economy and management of international trade in foreign trade enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, financial institutions and government organizations. What’s more, they have also laid a solid foundation of professional knowledge for further study abroad.




Financial Engineering (for four-year undergraduates)

  • Objectives

This major aims at developing highly qualified, global-minded and application-oriented talents in the field of financial management with an all-round development at morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetic. Graduates under this program are expected to have a good command of the basic theories and principles of finance, financial engineering, economy, management, laws, etc. Great emphasis should be put on financial quantitative method instruction and the cultivation of such abilities as financial problem solving ability, research conducting ability and application ability. Graduates are also expected to competently engage in financial risk management, asset management and pricing, financial product design, etc, in banking, insurance, securities and other financial sectors.

  • Core Courses

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Economic Law, International Finance, Basic Accounting, Corporate Finance, Investments, Finance, Financial Engineering, Financial Statement Analysis, Econometric.

  • Degree to Be Awarded

The degree of Bachelor of Economics.

  • Employment Prospects

Graduates under this program can competently engage in financial risk management, financial product design, financial management, investment and financing management, etc., in financial sectors such as banks, security companies, insurance companies, fund management companies, investment banking and government organizations. What’s more, graduates have also laid a solid foundation of professional knowledge for further study abroad.

Investments (for four-year undergraduates)

  • Objectives

This major aims at developing highly qualified, global-minded and application-oriented talents in the field of investment with an all-round development at morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetic. Graduates under this program are expected to be equipped with fundamentals and theories of investment, professional skills of investment practice and strong social adaptability. They are also expected to be equipped with stronger ability of organization, making decisions, management and cooperation so as to competently serve in such areas as banking, securities, insurance, and middle or small-size enterprises.

  • Core Courses

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometric, Economic Law, Corporate Finance, Basic Accounting, Investments, Financial Management, Finance, Project Assessment, Financial Engineering, International Investment, The Theory and Practice of Business Model, Corporate Strategic Management.

  • Degree to Be Awarded

The degree of Bachelor of Economics.

  • Employment Prospects

Graduates under this program can competently serve in (1) commercial banks and policy banks; (2) insurance companies or insurance brokering companies; (3) security companies (including fund management companies, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Futures Exchange Companies, etc.); (4) investment companies (such as Trust and Investment Corporations, Financial Investment Holding Companies, investment advisory companies, financial companies of large enterprises, etc.); (5) fund companies, social security fund management center or social security bureau, etc.; (6) the security sector or finance sector of the listed (or to be listed) companies. What’s more, graduates under this program can also choose to pursue postgraduate study.

Taxation (for four-year undergraduates)

  • Objectives

This major aims at developing highly qualified, global-minded, application-oriented, multi-functional, senior talents with an all-round development at morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetic. Graduates under this program are expected to be equipped with a solid foundation of accounting calculation and the theories and professional skills of fiscal and taxation so that they can engage in work related to taxation, fiscal, finance and tax planning in such areas as government organizations, enterprises and public institutions, tax agents, foreign-related departments.

  • Core Courses

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Basic Accounting, Intermediate Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Public Finance, Chinese Tax System, Tax Accounting, International Taxation, Taxation Management.

  • Degree to Be Awarded

The degree of Bachelor of Economics.

  • Employment Prospects

Graduates under this program can competently engage in taxation- and finance-related work in tax advisory agencies such as tax agents, accounting agents, financial companies, etc., in government departments such as financial department, tax department, etc., in banks and in industrial and commercial enterprises and public institutions. What’s more, they have also laid a solid foundation of professional knowledge for further study abroad.



Practice-Based Learning and Feature Teaching

Applied economics is the key subject of our university, with one experimental teaching center of economic management and one experiment teaching center of international business, both of which are the experimental teaching demonstration centers of Shaoxing City. There are 9 laboratories, such as the Virtual Simulation Laboratory of International Economics and Trade, Business Negotiation Simulation Laboratory, the Simulation Laboratory of Investment, Securities, and Foreign Exchanges, and the Virtual Simulation Laboratory of Financial Management, which can meet the training of professionals in various directions.


Experimental Teaching Center

Practical Teaching

Practical Teaching


Volunteers in 2018 Keqiao International Textile Expo



Teachers and students attend the 2018 spring international textile expo


Teachers and students attend the 2018 Zhejiang cross-border e-commerce exhibition




Global 500 Leadership Internship


Feature Teaching

Since 2014, our college has founded an international class of international economics and trade with international students and Chinese students who are good in foreign languages with the intention to study abroad. The courses and teaching materials taught are in line with those of the foreign universities. And the class is taught by international teachers and Chinese teachers with overseas education background either in English or bilingually, to further improve the students' foreign language proficiency and broaden their international vision.



2014 International Class


In June 2018, the first international class students graduated and got undergraduate degree.

2015 International Class


2017 Full English Class



Talent Cultivation


University-Enterprise Cooperation


The ‘illusion-Dream’ team from International Economy and Trade won the Grand Prize of undergraduate group in the first new competition of OCALE university student cross-border electrical business innovation and entrepreneurship competition


Group First Prize of Zhejiang University Students’Investment & Finance Skill Competition





International Cooperation and Exchange

Our college has conducted extensive international cooperation and exchanges with universities from Great Britain, United States of America, France, Japan, South Korea and Tailand, etc., such as the Coventry University of Great Britain, Edgewood College and George Fox University of the United States, etc.,and we also have cooperation and exchanges with several universities from Taiwan, such as Taiwan's National Central University, and Taiwan Feng Chia University, etc..Through the implementation of the "3+1+1" undergraduate to graduate program, short-term visits and summer travels, students are encouraged to visit and study abroad, so as to improve their professional ability and broaden their international vision.


Students of International Economy and Trade in French PASS-WORLD 3+2 Bachelor/Master Program

Visiting SolBridge International School of Business in Woosong University in Korea


Study Aboard in University of Cambridge in the UK

Global 500 Leadership Internship


Students in 2015 Global Entrepreneurial Training Camp Scholarship Program

Visiting Auckland Institute of Studies in New Zealand


Study aboard in University of Munich in Germany

Students in USA International Volunteer Program



Students in USA Summer Work Program





Student Activities

Golden Idea Competition


Coventry University Exchange Activity


Manner and Etiquette Competition


Graduation Ceremony


English Salon


Volunteers of 2018 Asia Pacific International Finance Forum



Volunteers in Tree Planting Day


Rainbow House

Alumni Sharing Meeting

Volunteers in Global Intelligent Industry Development & IoT Summit