Wenzhou University Socialist Market Economy Theory and Practice

Master Program

Program Name: Socialist Market Economy Theory and Practice

Degree: Master of Economics

Mission: The mission of the program is to promote and develop students’ ability and skills of socialist market economy theory and practice. The focus of theory research is on the newest and frontest problems of socialist market economy, while the centers of economy practice is towards the reform and development of Chinese economy using the economic analysis methods.

The program embrace three research topics. 1) socialist market economy and regional development: focusing on the characteristics of regional development, target population, and the structure of social network, extending to the internationalize of China economy and Chinese entrepreneur. 2) Socialist market economy organization and system: concentrating on the theory of Chinese special socialist economy organization as well as the explanation of “Chinese Mode”. 3) Socialist market economy reform and development: guided by the lastest achievements of the Marx doctrine in China, this research topic studies the law of China's socialist economic construction and the mechanism of socialist market economy system.

Supervisors: the program currently has 12 supervisors (7 professors, 5 associate professors), 10 of whom had achieved doctoral degree. In the recent 5 years, the staff had undertaken many projects from National Social Science Fund of China (1 key project, 4 genenral project, 1 later sponsored project) and 19 Social Science Planning Project of the Ministry of Education. The staff had also published a series of high impact journal articles as well as 18 books. The research outcomes had been highly recognized by both academic and society, which had won up to 15 awards at both provincial and council level. Candidates who have interest cound contact the following supervisors as list:

Zhenhua Hu, Li Lin, Yili Zhang, Xia Liu, Jianli Luo, Guansheng Yu, Zhanren Zhang, Xuyan He, Xiangqian Yu, Zhongming Cheng, Min Zhang, Yuanhua Li.

Duration: 3 years

Job prospects: public and government institutions, economcy anaylsis and planning departments, economic research and teaching institutions.

Entry Requirement:

The National Entrance Examination of Postgraduate: 0305Z2 Socialist Market Economy Theory and Practice

Preliminary test: 101 Political and Ideological Theory, 201 English, Political ecnomy, Macro Ecnomics.

Reference books: 1. Gao Hongye "Western Economics (Macro)" fifth edition, Renmin University of China press 2011 Edition; 2. Jiang Xuemo "Political Economics" (thirteenth edition), Shanghai people's publishing, 2005.

Second-round test: thesis writing and interview.

Equivalent test: Introduction to socialist market economy, Micro economics.

Reference books: 1. Yang Ganzhong "Introduction to Socialist Market Economy", the third edition of Renmin University of China press, September 2011; 2. Gao Hongye "Western Economics (Micro)" fifth edition, Renmin University of China press, 2011