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Hunan International Economics University, founded in May 1997, is a privately-run regular university which is funded by Hunan Falcon Industrial Limited Company. It originated from Xiangnan Institute of Arts and Science in Chenzhou City, Hunan province. In 1998, the university moved to the State high-tech industry development zone in Changsha, and changed its name to “Hunan International Economics University�. In 2000, Hunan provincial People's Government authorized it to be a private technical college, and was brought into the state plan for enrollment. In 2005, it was upgraded to a four-year university with the approval of Ministry of Education and Hunan Provincial People’s Government. It was rated in succession among the top ten famous private universities with ten thousand students, top twenty comprehensive private universities in China, winning the titles of “the National May Fourth Red Flag League Committee�, “Advanced Unit of Self-discipline Honest Development of Private Non-enterprise Units in China�, “Private educational innovation and development contribution award of China�, “Top Twenty Private Universities’ Quality Education in China�, “Top Ten Honest Private Universities in Hunan�, “Top Ten Hunan Private honest Unit�, “Top Ten Hunan Private Universities� and so on. It ranked the second best private university in China in 2006 and became one of the youngest and most promising private universities.The university covers a land area of 1700 mu with a construction area of 530000 square meters. Its total property is more than 1 billion Yuan. There are two campuses. The main campus is situated in the state high-tech industry zone in Changsha, with a land area of 1700 mu, and a construction area of 460000 square meters. The Qinshuihu campus is located in Taizimiao town, Hanshou County, Changde City, with an area of 6000 mu, of which there is 3000 mu of land area and 3000 mu of water area.Now there are 25000 various levels of students in our university, 1560 teaching and staff workers, of whom 1024 are teachers. Among the 946 full-time teachers, 64 are professors, 126 are associate professors, 213 teachers are with doctor's degree or master’s degree, 10 are foreign teachers, 14 experts win the special allowance of the State Council, mainly made up of full professors and associate professors, forming a stable teaching team.There are 86 laboratories of various kinds, among which computer, electronics, economics laboratories have reached advanced level in our country. The library of the university has a collection of 1.7 million volumes, including 1.08 million paper volumes and 0.62 million electronic volumes.1746 periodicals of various kinds and teaching instrument equipments are worth 68.5 million yuan in all.

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