As a leading talent in a region or an industry, accounting leaders are basically needed by all aspects of the finance bureau or the tax bureau, and can often participate in industry exchanges, so they will have relatively rich experience. The government training center of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics mainly focuses on government finance and government taxation training, such as budget management training, budget refinement training, budget informatization training, and financial revenue and expenditure training. Leading accounting talents are set up by the government training center of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in response to the project of selecting high-end accounting talents by the Ministry of Finance, which is another focus of the government training center.

In order to further speed up the training of professional talents in key areas of China's economic and social development, and strive to train a group of high-quality, compound, international and management-oriented accounting leading talents to meet the requirements of social and economic development, in 2007, the Ministry of Finance issued the Ten-year Plan for Training National Accounting Leading (Reserve) Talents, proposing to train accounting leading talents nationwide in a planned way according to four categories: enterprises, administrative institutions, certified accountants and academics.