Labor Economics Institute of Zhongnan University
of Economics and law is an opening professional academic
organization, the proceedor of it is Labor Economics
Institution of Zhongnan University of Finance and
Economics, which was founded in 1992. Prof. Chen Yuandun
served as the first chief of institute. In 2000, Zhongnan
University of Finance and Economics was combined with
Zhongnan University of Politics and Law, reestablished
the Labor Economics Institute, and appointed Zhang
Haifu as the chief of institute. At present, incumbent
chief of institute is associate Prof. Wang Changcheng.
Social security was founded in 1997, the research
direction if it are complete, it emphasize in using
multi-disciplinary knowledge and combining the theory
with practice, take the integrated way of teaching
scientific research synthetically and social service.
Furthermore, we have established the extensive friendly
cooperation relationship with Labor and Social Security,
National Ministry of Personnel, the State Economic
and Trade Commission, brother universities and colleges
and scientific research institutions, and large and
medium-sized enterprises. In addition, we also build
friendly cooperation relationship with the countries,
such as U.S.A., Canada, Holland, etc.
Labor Economics Institute of Zhongnan University
of Economics and law is one of the first unit that
launched teaching and research of labor economics
in the national higher institutions, which founded
in the 50s of 20th century. As far back as 1995, our
school has opened the research direction of population
and labor plan management under the specialty of national
economy plan management. During ¡°the Culture Revolution¡±,
this specialty and its branch research, population
and labor plan management were affected. Most teachers
were also forced to stop teaching. National economics
specialty (the former is national economy plan management)
were authorized by the State Council to enroll the
postgraduate in 1982, we set up the study direction
of labor and compensation and opened the courses such
as compensation theory and practice in socialism,
Labor economy and management etc. After more than
ten years¡¯ construction, labor economics was approved
by the State Council as the authorized unit of master¡¯s
degree in 1998. In the same year, we set up supervisor
group of labor economics led by Asst. Prof. Wang Changcheng,
begin to recruit postgraduate in 1999. We won the
authorization of labor economics ph.D. in 1999 and
begin to enroll doctoral graduate in 2001. We have
taken in the 5th year master degree candidate and
the 2nd doctoral candidate in this specialty.
Zhongnan University of Economics and law has a good
research tradition, which pursues the idea of ¡°Opening,
Pragmatizing, Strictness and Seeking for the truth
¡± all the time, we have achieved a lot of fruits in
this field and have won the broad influence within
domestic and abroad. In the past 5 years, our faculty
have presided and finished 2 items with national science
fund project successively, 8 items with national social
science fund project, 1 important bid project with
the base of Arts & sciences of Education Ministry,
7 items of provincial and ministerial level scientific
research projects, such as the provincial social sciences
fund and Arts & Social sciences planned project
of Education Ministry Etc. We also have obtained lots
of multiple international collaborative project subsidies,
such as American National Science Foundation, Ford¡¯s
fund, etc. Edited 2 interconnected textbooks of national-level,
published 14 monographs and 368 papers in domestic
and international academic journals, such as ¡°China¡¯s
social science¡±, etc. Among them, 5 items are provincial
and ministerial lever awards (government¡¯s award),
2 items are research are research findings (government¡¯s
award) of Arts & social science (economics) of
university of Education Ministry.
At present, there are 13 researchers in our institute,
in which, Prof. Accounts for 35%, Asst. Prof. 50%,
lecturer 15%, researchers under the age of 45 are
all doctors (including the doctor studying). The main
researchers including: Prof. Zhang Haifu, Prof. Yang
Yunyan, Prof. Chen Quangming, Prof. Ma Zhenjie, Asst.
Prof. Wang Changcheng, Asst. Prof. Yuan Heping, Asst.
Prof. Jiang Wenli, Prof. Zeng Fanhua, Prof. Chen Hao.etc.
Labor economics institute of Zhongnan University
of Economics and Law has the following research advantages
in the labor economics field.
1. This kind of institute is not popular in Zhongnan
areas. The research strength in this field are less
than the others in the whole country, yet our school
take up teaching and study in this field relatively
early, the overall research ability are stronger and
research level are higher than our counterpart. In
fact, we has become the center and the leader that
engaged in education and research in this field in
Zhongnan areas and rank in the top in the similar
research field of our country.
2. Our institute keeps friendly cooperation relationship
with the labor department of national and relevant
provincial & municipal government as well some
large-medium scale enterprise and institutions permanently.
A lot of professors take on visiting researcher, consultant
of government department, academic committee member,
and experts, senior consultant etc. At the same time,
our institute also engaged some part-time professors
and researchers to fill our research strength. We
always keep the good research style of theory combining
practice in the field of labor economics.
3. Labor economics has already entry the senior level
in this field, and is playing the key role in it.
For instance, two persons in our institute have joined
the China Labor Institute, which is rare in the national
higher school; As for Chinese sub-network of Asian
human research development network, only five universities
join in it in the whole country, our school is one
of it. In addition, we have also joined many academic
organization extensively such as China Labor Institute
Compensation Professional Committee, the branch institute
of Labor and Social Security Teaching, the Labor Institute
of Zhongnan areas, the Labor Institute of Hubei province
and Wuhan city, etc. and take charge of the important
position in it, which make our teaching and research
of labor economics always stand in the front of the
subject development.
4. We have the rich experience of discipline construction
and amount academic materials, Labor economics institute
almost have 2000 collected books including Chinese
and foreign books and professional journals, which
have formed the overall and systematic materials.
The distinctive directions that Zhongang University
of Economics and Law have formed in the study of labor
economics are as follows:
1. Employment and labor market. After many years¡¯
construction, this research direction has formed rearrangement
of employment system and the innovative study of labor
market system, labor force flowing in urban and rural
areas overall employment strategy, information collecting
and organizing of labor market, etc.
2. Income distribution and design of compensation
scheme. In this field rely on the good foundation
that lied by our senior experts and professors, as
well our current research strength, we have achieved
the top fruits in domestic similar research on the
aspects of fair distribution theory and policy, income
level and disparity of residents, human capital gaining,
design and diagnosis of compensation scheme, labor
cost, etc. These researches have played an example
for our country to push the theory research and reform
in this field.
3. Labor relations. Rely on the advantage of the
integration of finance & economics and politics
& law, the direction of labor relations has formed
the distinctive character on the aspect of labor relation
coordination mechanism, adjustment mode of labor relation,
trade union and group negotiation, labor security
of labor relation and labor dispute settling.
4. Human capital. The main research in this field
are the obtaining of pricing, trading of human capital,
as well human capital property rights and its protection,
etc.
