Peking University University of Economics and its predecessor, Peking University Department of Economics, are the earliest established departments of economics in comprehensive universities, the earliest spreading base of western economics and Marxist economics in China, the first college founded by Peking University, the first college in China to set up a postdoctoral mobile station in economics, the first college in China to implement master's degree and doctoral programs in liberal arts, and the first college in China to receive the title of "Excellent Doctoral Thesis in Liberal Arts". It is the only college listed as a "national economic talent training base" by the Ministry of Education, and it has the only innovative experimental area project of "innovative experimental area of talent training mode" approved by the Ministry of Education. It is one of the departments that have won the most social science fund projects in Peking University, one of the departments that took the lead in teaching reform, one of the first departments that implemented the two-year postgraduate program, one of the departments that recruited the top candidates in the college entrance examination in various provinces, and the department with the largest number of student associations in Peking University.