Zhongnan University of economics and law Law is a key university directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China, with economics, law and management as the backbone, and nine disciplines including philosophy, literature, history, science, engineering and art. It is jointly built by the Ministry of education, the Ministry of Finance and the people's Government of Hubei Province. It is the key construction project of the national "211 Project" and "985 project advantage discipline innovation platform" The university is a national "world-class discipline construction university". It has been selected into the national "2011 plan" and "111 plan", the key research base of Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of education, the public postgraduate program of national construction of high-level universities, the education and training program for outstanding legal talents, the national innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students, the new engineering research and practice program, and the Chinese government scholarship Universities receiving international students, universities with typical employment experience of national graduates, innovation and entrepreneurship base of national university practice education, 2011 plan of Hubei Province, chairman unit of first-class discipline construction alliance of Finance and economics, member of lege alliance, China Russia Economic University Alliance, China Russia "Yangtze Volga The school originated from Zhongyuan University, which was founded in 1948 by the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee with Deng Xiaoping as the first secretary and Chen Yi as the director of the Preparatory Committee. In 2000, Central South University of Finance and economics, formerly under the Ministry of finance, and Central South University of political science and law, formerly under the Ministry of justice, merged to form Central South University of Finance and economics.As of December 2019, the school covers an area of more than 2800 mu, with a construction area of more than 1.1 million square meters; the library has a collection of more than 8.54 million books with pictures and texts; it has 19 colleges; there are more than 2500 teaching staff, including more than 1500 full-time teachers; there are more than 20000 full-time undergraduates, more than 8000 master's graduates and more than 1300 doctoral students.