The industrial economics discipline is a key discipline in Jiangsu province with a stable
academic team and resonable echelon. By the end of 2001 there were five professors and ten
asociate professors, two of which have doctorate degrees and four of which are studying for
a doctorate.
The Research attaches much importance to the research of business industrial organisation and
structure, reveals the law and the reasons of business industrial structure development, by
analysing its structure and seeks for the common trend in business industrial development.
The Research goes further into adjustment goal and policies of Chinese industrial structures
and policies, with the characteristic of Chinese industrialisation and process taken into
consideration. It combines scientific research with the requirements of Jiangsu Economic and
related industrial development, makes great contributions to the adjustment of regional
industrial structure and formulation of industrial policies.
The particularity in the value of food brings about its important role in social development.
The Chinese grain issue will be confronted with many new choices after entry into the WTO. The
university used to be attached to the Ministry of Grain. Even today it still has the only Grain
Economics Research Institute in China. The university has made greate achievements through years
of research. It has formed a reasonable eschelon and has undertaken a lot of grain research
programs. Many research papers have been published. The university has provided a lot of advice
on formulating national and regional grain policies.
Orientation one: Busness Industrial Research


Orientation two: Chinese Industrial Structure and Policies Research
Orientation three: Food Distribution Theory and Policies
