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Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade (FUIST) is a full-time undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education. Founded in 2004, it is an initiator and Vice Chairman of the Non-profit Private University Alliance, and the Executive Vice Chairman of the Higher Education Professional Committee of the China Association for Non-Government Education. FUIST has been authorized to grant master's degrees and designated as a first-class application-oriented university in Fujian Province. FUIST's development potential tops the list among private undergraduate universities in Fujian Province. Among them, indicators such as resource integration, personnel training, scientific research, social service, and comprehensive reputation all rank first among private undergraduate universities. In the 2024 Alumni Association China University Rankings, the university's comprehensive index increased to the third place in the ranking of private universities in China (finance and economics), topping the ranking in Fujian Province for six consecutive years and emerging as one of the top-level private finance and economics universities in China.

Changle, hailed as ‘a famous seaside area culturally abundant in literature’, is a district of Fuzhou City, the capital of Fujian Province, where FUIST is located, covering an area of more than 2,400 mu, including a campus building area of over 650,000 square meters, teaching instruments and equipment of over RMB 14,000,000, a library collection of over 3.5 million volumes and over 160 teaching laboratories, in addition to about 400 off-campus training bases.

The pursuit of internationalized and opening-up education drives FUIST to take multiple measures to strengthen educational exchanges and integration between Fujian and Taiwan. FUIST is the first private university in Fujian Province to be qualified for enrolling international students. It is also the first private university qualified for enrolling undergraduates from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, one of the first batch of pilot colleges and universities to cooperate with Taiwan universities on education, holder of the title of overseas Chinese education base in Fujian Province, and the advanced unit of employing foreign cultural and educational experts in Fuzhou City, has been cooperating with more than 30 foreign high-level institutions. To actively respond to the “Belt and Road” Initiative of China, FUIST mainly recruits international students from countries along the “Belt and Road”, including more than 220 students from Guinea, Nepal, Laos, Mongolia, Cameroon, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana and other countries along the “Belt and Road”, as well as United States.