China College of Labor Relations

China Institute of Labor Relations (CILR) is an ordinary school of higher education affiliated with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). The predecessor of the school was the All-China Federation of Trade Unions Cadre School established in 1949 in Tianjin, with Comrade Li Lisan, an early leader of the Chinese ****productivity party, as the first principal. 1954, the school was moved from Tianjin to Beijing, and trained the earliest group of labor economic management professionals for the trade unions and the governmental labor administrative departments after the founding of the People's Republic of China. 1984, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions Cadre School was transformed into the China Institute of Labor and Transportation. In 1984, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, the Cadre School of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions was reconstructed into the China Institute of Industrial Transportation, which became an adult institution of higher education under the direct subordination of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and was established independently, and it cultivated a large number of middle- and high-level managerial cadres and trade union specialists for trade unions of all levels in our country. In 2003, in order to meet the needs of the development of labor relations in China and the cultivation of specialized talents for labor union work in China under the new situation, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, China Labor Movement College was transformed and upgraded to a general institution of higher learning and renamed China Labor Relations College. The school now has two campuses in Beijing and Zhuozhou, Hebei.

At present, the university has formed a pattern of running a school with undergraduate education as the focus, trade union cadre training as the mission and higher vocational education as the supplement. The school now has twelve teaching departments (faculties) including Trade Union College, College of Cultural Communication, Department of Labor Relations, Department of Safety Engineering, Department of Public **** Management, Department of Law, Department of Economic Management, College of Higher Vocational Education, College of Continuing Education, Trade Union Cadre Training College, Department of Foundation, and Department of Foreign Languages, etc. The school offers 15 general undergraduate majors and directions, and two national-level characteristic majors construction points for labor relations and jurisprudence (labor and social security law), and constructs two national-level characteristic majors construction points for labor relations, jurisprudence (labor and social security law). There are 2 national-level specialties construction sites, and the university has built up a group of disciplines and specialties for labor relations and trade unions with specialties in labor relations, labor and social security, safety engineering, labor law, social work and human resources management, covering 6 disciplines such as management, law, economics, literature, engineering and art. The Labor Relations Coordination and Development Experimental Teaching Center of the university is a national experimental teaching demonstration center construction unit.

The school now enrolls ordinary undergraduates, master's degree graduate students and higher vocational students, and at present *** there are 5,900 full-time ordinary undergraduates and college students enrolled in the school. While carrying out academic education, the school also undertakes the task of training the cadres of trade unions and large-scale enterprises at the provincial and local levels across the country, averaging about 6,000 person-times a year, and provides adult undergraduate education for national labor models and "May Day" Labor Medal winners.

Since its founding, the school has had relatively strong teaching and research strength. The school now has 254 full-time teachers, including 28 professors, 72 associate professors, 4 Beijing teaching masters, 10 people enjoy the State Council issued the "government special allowance". The university also employs renowned scholars from other universities and senior managers from governmental organizations and large and medium-sized enterprises as part-time teachers all year round.

As the highest academic institution of the national trade union system and an important base for theoretical and policy research on labor relations, the university has a group of senior experts in labor relations, labor law, trade union theory, labor economy, labor and social security, whose academic research level is among the highest in China. The school has 16 research institutes, including the Institute of Labor Relations, the Institute of Labor Law and Trade Union Law, the Institute of Workers' History and Present Situation, the Institute of Safety Science and Management, the Institute of Labor Market Research, the Institute of Social Structure and Political Development, and the Institute of Chinese Workers' Public Opinion, etc. The school has undertaken and accomplished a number of scientific research projects at the national level and the provincial and ministerial levels, and has actively participated in the work of trade union and labor legislation in China.

The school serves as a national library and information center for labor relations and trade unions, and the library now has 670,000 paper books in various Chinese and foreign languages and more than 1.2 million e-books, providing teaching and research and information consulting services for the school's teachers and students, as well as for trade union organizations nationwide. The Journal of China Institute of Labor Relations is a national Chinese core journal of Chinese politics and a core journal of Chinese humanities and social sciences, and the school-sponsored China Worker magazine is an important public opinion position for studying and publicizing workers' rights and interests.

The university attaches importance to foreign academic exchanges, and maintains regular cooperation and academic exchanges with colleges and universities, scientific research institutions and international organizations in many countries and regions, and has established friendship and inter-university relations with Aichi University in Japan, the Institute of Labor and Social Relations in Russia, Seattle City University in the U.S.A., the Trade Union University of Vietnam, the Higher School of Business of IPAG in France, the Institute of Labor and International Relations in Belarus, and the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. It has also established friendly inter-university relations with Aichi University in Japan, Institute of Labor and Social Relations in Russia, City University of Seattle in the United States, Vietnam Trade Union University, IPAG Higher Business School in France, Belarusian Institute of Labor and International Relations, and Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, and has regularly carried out exchanges among faculty members and students, and cooperated in organizing international and regional academic conferences.