About Journal of Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics

Journal of Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics

The Journal of Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics is a Chinese-language academic journal published by Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics in Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China. Its Chinese title is Neimenggu Caijing Daxue Xuebao. It is the general journal — the xuebao — of the region's specialist finance-and-economics university, and it gives that university a standing scholarly outlet for work in economics, finance, management and the related social sciences. Unlike a narrowly specialised commercial title, a university journal of this kind is rooted in the teaching and research life of its host institution: its authors, its subject matter and its readership all follow the disciplines the university itself teaches. In this case that means a publication shaped by a border-region university whose work is directed, in large part, at the economy of Inner Mongolia itself.

Identity, Name and Place

The English name follows the standard pattern for Chinese university journals: Journal of, followed by the full name of the host university. The Chinese name, Neimenggu Caijing Daxue Xuebao, says the same thing — Neimenggu for Inner Mongolia, Caijing for finance and economics, Daxue for university and Xuebao for journal or学报. The journal is based in Hohhot, where the university works from two campuses: the West Campus at 185 North Second Ring Road and the East Campus at 47 Hailaer Avenue, in Xincheng District. Hohhot has been the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region since 1952, and it was renamed Hohhot — Mongolian for the green, or blue, city — in 1954. Britannica describes how the city grew up as a frontier trading centre, on ground traditionally at the edge of the area settled by Han Chinese, with the original Mongol city founded in the sixteenth century as an important centre for Tibetan Buddhism, a Chinese city called Guihua beside it, and a second Chinese city, Suiyuan, founded in the mid-eighteenth century a few miles to the north. That frontier history — trade, administration and exchange between grassland and settled agriculture — is the deep background to the economic questions a Hohhot finance-and-economics journal exists to study.

The Host University

Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics, often shortened to IMUFE, is described by its own introduction as the only independent, region-level institution of higher education in Inner Mongolia specialising in finance and economics, and in other summaries as the first finance-and-economics undergraduate college established by the state in China's border ethnic regions. It is a public university under the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with the region's Department of Education recorded as its supervising authority. The university's motto is Chongde, Shangxue, Mingli, Baorong — valuing virtue, esteeming learning, understanding reason and being inclusive. Its stated working approach is to serve as a training base for finance-and-economics talent and as a base for economic-management research and consultation for the region. That dual role — training people for the region's finance, tax, audit and business systems, and researching the region's economy — is precisely the role a university journal supports, because the journal is where the research side of the mission becomes public and citable.

A History Written Into the Journal's Host

The university's history explains the journal's character. It was founded in 1960 as Inner Mongolia Finance and Economics College. In 1962 it was rebuilt as a finance-and-trade cadre training institute, and in 1965 it became a finance-and-trade school. Undergraduate recruitment resumed in 1979, and in 1980, with the approval of the State Council, the college was re-established under its earlier name. In 2000 it merged with the Inner Mongolia Economic Management Cadre College, and in 2006 the Inner Mongolia Fiscal and Tax Vocational College and the Business Administration School were brought into it. In 2005 it obtained the right to award master's degrees. Finally, in 2012, the Ministry of Education approved its renaming as Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics — the name the journal now carries. After more than sixty years of development, the institution describes itself as a finance-and-economics university centred on undergraduate education while also training postgraduates, led by economics and management and integrating science, law, engineering and literature. A journal published by such an institution inherits that breadth-with-a-centre: economics and management first, the neighbouring disciplines in support.

Disciplinary Base and Scope

The journal's subject territory can be read directly from the university's verified academic structure. The university has six first-level disciplines authorised for master's degrees — theoretical economics, applied economics, business administration, statistics, public administration and Marxist theory — comprising twenty-nine second-level master's points, plus twelve professional master's programmes including the MBA, finance, accounting, applied statistics, taxation, international business, asset appraisal, auditing, law, tourism management, public administration and electronic information. It offers fifty-nine undergraduate recruitment programmes, of which ten — including finance, international economics and trade, applied statistics, marketing, accounting, tourism management, public finance, law, financial management and logistics management — have been selected as national first-class undergraduate programme construction points, with a further eight selected at autonomous-region level. Its teaching units include schools of economics, finance, resources and environmental economics, fiscal and tax studies, business, business administration, accounting, tourism, public management, computer information management, statistics and mathematics, and law, alongside humanities and foreign languages. Within that structure, the profile recorded for this journal points to research on regional economics, the grassland pastoral economy, finance and management in northern China — themes that follow naturally from a university in Hohhot with a school devoted to resources and environmental economics as well as to conventional finance.

Recognition — and an Honest Account of Indexing

The university's own introduction states that the Journal of Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics is an excellent journal of the autonomous region — an Autonomous Region Excellent Journal. A version of the university overview reproduced in its graduate employment report adds that it is also listed in the expanded edition of the Chinese humanities and social-science core journals. Those are regional and expanded-list distinctions, and they should not be inflated. The most careful independent check available is a peer-reviewed analysis published in August 2024 in the Journal of Inner Mongolia University of Technology (Natural Science Edition), by Shi Dan and Qiao Yun of that journal's editorial department, which examined the Chinese academic journals of Inner Mongolia's nine first-class-discipline construction universities against major databases, using data collected in March 2024 from journal homepages, CNKI, the 2023 Chinese core-journal directory and the Chinese Science Citation Database. In that study's indexing table, only four journals from the nine universities appeared in lists such as CSSCI, the Peking University core list, the Chinese science-and-technology core list or CSCD, and the authors concluded that the other universities' journals — including this one — were not included in those major domestic lists, and that no Inner Mongolia university journal in the study was included in SCI, EI or Scopus. Readers should therefore place this title accurately: a recognised regional university journal, not a nationally core-listed or internationally indexed one. No ISSN or Chinese domestic publication (CN) number for the journal was attested in the sources consulted for this profile, and none is stated here.

What the 2024 Matching Study Shows

That 2024 study is also the clearest published evidence that the journal exists as one of its host's two Chinese academic journals. The authors counted nineteen Chinese academic journals hosted by the nine universities, and for Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics they listed exactly two, both classed as comprehensive journals: this journal, and its sister title Finance and Economics Theory Research, known in Chinese as Caijing Lilun Yanjiu. The sister title is the more decorated of the pair — the university describes it as one of the national top one hundred university social-science journals and an expanded-edition Chinese humanities and social-science core journal — and the two should not be confused. The study identified statistics as the university's first-class construction discipline in the autonomous region's second round of selections, a status the university also records for 2023, when it was selected as a first-class-discipline construction institution in the region. Counting articles indexed on CNKI for 2019 to 2023, the study found 1,372 articles across the university's Chinese journals, of which 110, or about 8.01 per cent, were in the first-class discipline. The authors' wider verdict — that across Inner Mongolia, the number of university journals, their indexing and the share of their articles matching their universities' strongest disciplines were all relatively low — applies to this journal's setting as much as to its neighbours, and it frames the journal's real task: publishing more of the strong, discipline-defining work its own university produces.

Editorial Home and Research Ecosystem

Within the university, journal publishing has a named institutional home: a Journal Editorial Department is listed among the university's auxiliary teaching units, alongside the library, the network information centre, the economic-management experimental training centre and research institutes including an institute for economic and resource development. The research ecosystem around the editorial office is substantial. The university's introduction records one autonomous-region-level collaborative innovation centre, described as a high-end think tank, seven autonomous-region research bases, one regional university innovation platform, eight regional academic innovation teams, twelve university-level innovation teams and twenty-five university-level virtual research institutions. Over a recent five-year period it reports undertaking more than 120 national-level projects and 318 provincial and ministerial projects, publishing more than 3,400 papers — over 1,000 of them in CSSCI or Peking University core journals — and more than 640 monographs and textbooks. Its library holds more than three million volumes and subscribes to sixty-six databases mainly in economics and management, including the CNKI series, Wanfang, EBSCO, CSSCI and SSCI. A university journal does not create that output by itself, but it sits inside it: it is one of the channels through which a research base of that scale speaks, first of all, to its own region.

People, Scale and Readership

Scale matters for understanding who writes for and reads a journal like this. The university reports more than 22,900 students in ordinary higher education, recruiting from twenty-six provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and more than 1,009 full-time teachers, of whom 568 hold senior titles and 388 hold doctorates. Since its founding it has trained more than 180,000 graduates, whom its introduction describes as having become backbone staff in the region's and the country's finance, audit, financial, tax and industry-and-commerce systems. ShanghaiRanking placed the university thirty-fifth in its 2026 ranking of Chinese financial and economic universities. For the journal, those figures describe a concrete community: a large finance-and-economics faculty and postgraduate body on the Hohhot campuses generating research, and a very large alumni body working in exactly the fiscal, financial and commercial institutions whose problems — regional development, pastoral and resource economies, public finance, enterprise management in a northern border region — the journal's recorded research themes address. Its natural readership is therefore Chinese-speaking scholars, postgraduate researchers, and practitioners in those systems, rather than an international English-language audience.

Place in Hohhot and Northern China

Finally, the journal's location is part of its identity. Hohhot is not one of China's coastal publishing centres; it is the administrative, economic and cultural centre of a vast autonomous region of grassland, energy and pastoral production, historically a frontier trading city between the Mongol grasslands and settled China. The university states that it aims its work at national strategies and at the region's own needs, including rural revitalisation, the China–Mongolia–Russia economic corridor and the digital transformation of government, industry and enterprise. A finance-and-economics journal published from Hohhot by the region's only independent finance-and-economics university is therefore best understood as regional scholarly infrastructure: modest in national indexing terms, as the 2024 evidence shows plainly, but occupying a position no other title occupies — the general academic journal of Inner Mongolia's specialist economics university, publishing in Chinese on the economy of Inner Mongolia and northern China from inside the institution charged with training that region's financial and economic professionals.