sponsored by zuel ranked among the top core journals in law and was selected as one of the 'top 100 newspapers' in china. the journal of zhongnan university of economics and law was awarded the title of 'famous journal of social sciences in national universities'.zuel merits a strong sense of responsibility to serve the society. zuel has been active in meeting china's major strategic needs, taking the lead in drafting and revising over 40 laws at national level. through the interaction with the ministry of finance, the ministry of education, ministry of justice, state administration of taxation, national bureau of statistics, national intellectual property administration and the development research centre of the state council, zuel has built a batch of high-quality think tanks, offering a series of constructive advice that contributes to decision-making on the country’s fiscal reform, legal construction, financial innovation, intellectual property protection and social governance. the university now owns one key research base of humanities and social sciences administered by the ministry of education, four bases of the higher education discipline innovation project (111 project) launched by the ministry of education, one innovative team supported by the ministry of education, two provincial co-innovation centers, one provincial reform think tank, one provincial new types of think tank with chinese characteristics, one provincial center for research on the theoretical system of socialism with chinese characteristics, eight key research institutes of humanities and social sciences in hubei province and over 20 high-level academic platform co-established with the supreme people’s court and the supreme people’s procuratorate. up to now, zuel has eight think tanks included in chinese think tank index (ctti), one of the largest and most renowned online think-tank information systems co-developed by the china think tank research and evaluation center at nanjing university and the guangming daily think tank research and release center. zuel also contributed to the ecological governance in yichang in hubei province as its co-innovation center for social governance of urban and rural communities took a leading role in yichang trial, a successful project for ecological governance in three gorges ecological and economic cooperation zone, of which president xi jinping spoke highly when he inspected the city in april, 2018. the first ccb academy was established in cooperation with china construction bank to build a new strategic alliance between industry, academia and research.zuel embraces globalization and commits to collaborative development.