All faculties of the Department of Public Finance and Taxation at Business School attended the launching meeting for the construction of profession degree of Master in Taxation on Oct 19. Professor Lei Lianghai, the discipline leader in Applied Economics and the person in charge of the application introduced the situation of program application to set up Master Program in Taxation. Professor TIAN Fa, the director of the Department of Public Finance and Taxation, presided the meeting, and all faculties were involved in the discussion.
In the meeting, Professor Lei first introduced the application process of setting up the professional degree Master in Taxation and the application progress of the degree construction and cultivation of USST. Professor Lei pointed out that in the support of Business School and the USST, and in everyone's joint efforts, the application for setting up Master in Taxation has officially approved. After several rounds of application and defense, we have obtained the subsidy from the degree construction and cultivation project of USST. So far, The Department of Public Finance and Taxation has formed a relatively complete education system for undergraduate and postgraduates for academic master and professional master degree. We have the responsibility to build a strong discipline. At present, a total of 53 universities in China are qualified to confer Master in Taxation, including 11 in East China and 5 in Shanghai. They are mainly comprehensive universities and universities specialized in finance and economics. As a university specialized in engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology should build a master program in Taxation own characteristics.
Professor Lei stressed that the successful application for funding of the master of taxation construction and cultivation project is of great significance to rapidly promote the master program with distinctive characteristics of USST. The next step of the department is to promote the construction of the master programs in taxation. The construction mainly has three parts: first, the construction of characteristic courses; second, the construction of key teaching materials; third, the construction of internship base. The meeting defined the specific division for the promotion of the master program, and made arrangements for the cooperative internship base, industry communication, and exchange with other universities, etc. In the meeting, the issues of how to strengthen the construction of faculties and mentorship, and invited experienced professionals as external mentors to jointly promote and complete the construction of the master program through building a platform were also discussed.
Translator:XU Jiawen
Reviewer: ZHOU Huijun
