Graduate Education 

        Established in 1958, the Institute of agricultural Economics (IAE) is the earliest national research institute devoted to agricultural economics and policy research in China. IAE currently has 102 staff members, among them 90 are scientech personnel, which including 34 senior research fellows, 28 middle level research fellows, 18 with Phd degree, and 25 with masters degree.

      IAE concentrates its research on major issues in areas such as rural development strategy, agro-technical economics and modern management, agricultural sciences and technology policy, resource deployment and sustainable development, enterprise development, international trade of agriculture products, rural energy and environment, new economic issues and international comparative study. IAE always stands at the frontier of rural economy and policy research and pays attention to major issues in rural reform and development.

    Aimed at providing excellent agricultural economists, IAE strives to be a place of teaching and mentoring to young economists and other social scientists. IAE is one of the earliest institutes that offer both master’s and PhD’s degrees. Up to date, IAE has cultivated 97 Phd students and 32 Masters in the past 20 year. At present, there are 8 Phd supervisors and 7 Master supervisors in the institute. All the supervisors are agro-economics experts in their fields respectively.

    IAE has a wide source of research funds. Majority of the funds come from the National Natural Science Foundation, the State Philosophy and social Science Foundation and various ministries nationally and World Bank, FAO, EU, Ford Foundation, CGIAR, as well as foreign national research grants.