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Since its foundation in October 1951, as a result of the merger of several old universities in Shanghai (including St. John’s University, which was founded in 1879 and the Great China University, which was founded in 1924), the East China Normal University (ECNU) has become one of the most prestigious universities in China, and is also known as a ‘Garden University’ for its beautiful campus.

At present, ECNU has three faculties, 27 full-time schools, two colleges, 8 advanced research institutes, a college of further education, and a national training center for secondary principals with 58 departments offering 80 undergraduate programs in humanities, education, science, engineering, economics, management, philosophy, psychology, law, history and art. Besides that, the University also offers 27 doctoral programs of the State Primary Disciplines, 38 master's programs of the State Primary Disciplines, one professional doctoral program, 19 professional master's programs and 25 post-doctoral mobile research stations.

ECNU is steadily and enthusiastically working towards its goal of establishing itself as an internationally renowned high-level research university, with a number of first-class disciplines and a well-coordinated discipline development, while also taking the lead in the development of China's teacher training. The decision to sponsor Statistical Theory and Related Fields, an international academic journal to meet the scholarly needs in the era of Big Data, is a natural result of her development strategy to realize this goal.

The operation of the new journal Statistical Theory and Related Fields will be guided by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (formerly the Department of Mathematical Statistics) at ECNU, which is among the earliest founded statistical departments in Chinese universities. The department is composed of many distinguished professors and has regular academic exchanges with dozens of well-known universities and research institutes in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, etc. Many graduates of the department are now professors, research fellows, or senior actuaries in well-known universities, institutes, and financial companies worldwide, while some of them have become world famous scholars in related areas. The research fields in which the Department has been playing nation-wide leading roles include stochastic analysis and limit theory and its application, actuarial, statistical theory, non-parametric and semi-parametric statistics, biostatistics and applied statistics.