The official list of winners for the “Jingshi” Award (Beijing Education and Teaching Achievement Award, hereafter the Award) was released, with CUEB securing a total of eight awards.

Of the eight achievements, six were recognized in undergraduate education and two in graduate education. Spanning various fields—including talent cultivation models, curriculum reform, digital intelligence integration, and faculty development—these awards highlight CUEB’s distinct strengths in finance and economics education, while demonstrating our solid progress in educational reform and innovation.

The Award is the most influential teaching award of the highest-level in Beijing. Presented every four years, it recognizes outstanding teaching achievements in moral education and talent development, teaching reform, curriculum development, faculty training, and industry-education integration. The award aims to guide universities in deepening reform, improving education quality, and supporting Beijing’s role as a leading area in building China into a powerhouse in education.

“Three-Stage Advancement and Five-Dimensional Framework”: Construction and Practice of the “FIRST” System for Digital Transformation in Universities of Finance and Economics

Project Overview

Against the backdrop of China’s strategies to build a leading country in education and a Digital China, CUEB has responded to the growing demand for interdisciplinary professionals with digital and intelligent capabilities in economics, finance and business. Through more than a decade of systematic exploration, the university has developed a three-stage pathway of “digital transition, digital empowerment, and digitally enabled development of economics and business”, supported by the five-dimensional “FIRST” system covering infrastructure, program renewal, teaching reform, faculty support, and educational transformation. It has built the first discipline-specific large model in China’s education sector of finance and economics, covering all students and forming a complete loop from general to professional education. The project has created a full-chain paradigm for digital-intelligent education in economics, finance and business. Since its implementation, faculty and students have significantly improved their digital and intelligent capabilities, and a large number of interdisciplinary students for the digital economy have been trained. Therefore, the project provides a replicable template for the digital transformation.

“One Core, Two Transformations, Three Types”: Exploration and Practice of Talent Cultivation Model in Finance and Economics for the High-Quality Development of the Capital

Project Overview

“One Core, Two Transformations, Three Types” is a talent cultivation model developed by CUEB over more than two decades. Centered on the core mission of “fostering virtue through education and serving the high-quality development of Beijing”, the model leverages “internationalization and intelligence” as its two wings to chart three tailored paths toward developing “innovative, multidisciplinary, and practical” professionals in economics and business. By establishing strategic elite classes, industry leader classes, and capital-function multidisciplinary classes, the university has successfully upgraded a cluster of national first-class majors through digital transformation. Currently, approximately 80% of graduates choose to work in Beijing, providing a steady stream of high-caliber expertise to support the capital’s development. This model has served as a valuable reference and demonstrated positive value among universities of finance and economics nationwide.

Innovation and Practice of the “Three Intelligences” Cultivation Model for Graduate Students in Finance and Economics in the AI Era

Project Overview

In response to the digital and artificial intelligence era, CUEB has continued to reform and innovate its graduate education model. Centered on “enhancing academic intelligence, strengthening digital intelligence, and shaping mental development”, the university has built a comprehensive platform for academic training, a multidimensional platform for digital enhancement, and a comprehensive platform for cognitive and intellectual development. These efforts have formed a “Three Intelligences” cultivation system that supports academic development, digital-intelligent development, and mental development. Guided by the educational philosophy of “cultivating academic foundations, forging an innovative spirit, inspiring digital intelligence, and nurturing conscience”, the system aims to improve graduate students’ academic, digital and moral literacy. It has created a systematic and distinctive pathway for education in finance and economics, yielding substantial success in student development.

“Finance as the Backbone, Technology as the Wings”: Exploration and Practice in Cultivating “Finance + AI” Interdisciplinary Talents

Project Overview

Since 2017, the School of Finance has deepened the educational philosophy of “finance as the backbone, technology as the wings”. Through years of practice, it has broken down traditional disciplinary barriers and developed a replicable and scalable paradigm for cultivating fintech professionals. Focusing on the deep integration of frontier information technologies with financial scenarios, and using “Finance + AI” as a strategic driver, the project has advanced the shift from knowledge delivery to competence development through curriculum restructuring, university-enterprise collaboration, and interdisciplinary teaching and research. The system has produced a clear demonstrative effect and gained strong industry recognition. It is emerging as the core engine for reshaping higher education, providing a solid foundation for the digital transformation of the financial sector.

Precision OBE + Multimodal AI + HarmonyOS Ecosystem Synergy: Cultivating National Strategic Technical Talents Through Online and Offline Education

Project Overview

This project focuses on cultivating key technical professionals for national strategic needs. It proposed and implemented the teaching philosophy of “Precision OBE (Outcome-Based Education)”, built a smart teaching and quality monitoring platform driven by “Multimodal AI + MIS”, and developed a curriculum system centered on the HarmonyOS ecosystem, AI development, and innovation and entrepreneurship education. The project was recognized as a national first-class online course, attracting over one million learners. Its textbook was named a Beijing high-quality undergraduate one, and several faculty members received Beijing municipal honors for young teaching excellence. Students in the project have won more than 100 awards at provincial, ministerial or higher levels. Its teaching reform philosophy has been covered by mainstream media outlets including People’s Daily and promoted to more than 100 institutions nationwide. The project addresses key challenges in fostering domestic technology ecosystems such as HarmonyOS AI, developing talents at scale, and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of innovation and entrepreneurship education in new engineering disciplines.

“Digital-Physical Integration and Real-Economy Empowerment”: Reform and Practice of New Liberal Arts Education in Local Universities of Finance and Economics in the New Era

Project Overview

Grounded in mathematical foundations and emphasized by hands-on practice, this project is guided by digital-physical convergence and innovation-led development. It constructs a novel pathway for New Liberal Arts education that integrates the digital paradigm with the physical sector to empower the real economy. The framework focuses on advancing five pillar initiatives for student growth:

The “Virtue-Fostering” Initiative: Focusing on ideological guidance and the integration of history and theory;

The “Foundation-Consolidating” Initiative: Centered on independent innovation and research-driven excellence;

The “Base-Strengthening” Initiative: Anchored by mathematical foundations and empowered by digital capabilities;

The “Empowerment” Initiative: Leveraging data to reinforce the physical sector and enhance educational quality;

The “Root-Deepening” Initiative: Based in the capital to serve strategic national needs.

Deeply embedded in practical exploration, this project has accumulated rich theoretical insights and substantial practical outcomes, effectively resolving long-standing challenges among students in universities of finance and economics, such as insufficient theoretical innovation and weak practical application.

Ideological Guidance, Industry-Education Integration, and Professional Coherence: A System for Cultivating Outstanding Practice-Oriented Graduates in Finance and Economics

Project Overview

Upholding the political, human-oriented and strategic nature of education, this project has built a new cultivation system for master students in finance and economics, centered on ideological guidance, industry-education integration and professional coherence. Through measures such as offering courses on professional ethics, establishing industry-university-research bases, and supporting interdisciplinary projects, the system aligns with the frontiers of industrial and technological changes while serving national strategies and public needs. It adheres to the socialist orientation of education while encouraging boundary-breaking innovation and paradigm reconstruction. The project’s experience has been reported and promoted by mainstream media, and its cultivation system has been highly recognized by finance and economics institutions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Related practices have been adopted by other institutions, extending the project’s influence across universities.

One Core, Two-Fold Integration, Two-Way Drive and Multidimensional Output: Innovation and Practice of the Teaching Model for Public Mathematics Courses in Local Universities

Project Overview

CUEB’s teaching and research team for public mathematics has worked with sister institutions, including Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing Union University and Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, to reform and explore the teaching model for public mathematics courses. Taking high-quality textbook development as a breakthrough and teaching model reform as the main focus, the team has built a ubiquitous learning space integrating “online + offline” and “teachers + students”. It has developed a range of national and Beijing municipal-level teaching resources, including courses, textbooks, lesson plans and courseware, and proposed the teaching model of “One Core, Two-Fold Integration, Two-Way Drive and Multidimensional Output”. The project has helped develop a group of Beijing municipal-level distinguished teachers and top innovative professionals, establishing a new template for public mathematics teaching reform in local universities.