The Zhongshen School of Nanjing Audit University (NAU) was established in May 2016 as a distinctive school jointly founded by ZSZH and NAU. As a key partner, ZSZH provides the School with faculty members who possess extensive practical accounting expertise and offers students a wide range of internship, training, and employment opportunities.

Each year, the Zhongshen School selects outstanding students from NAU’s incoming freshman class to form the Zhongshen Elite Class, which offers two specialized tracks: Auditing (CPA) and Accounting in Intelligent Finance. Guided by a core philosophy that emphasizes the deep integration of general education, artificial intelligence, and career development, the School aims to cultivate industry elites who are ethical, resilient, highly professional and globally oriented.

The Zhongshen School boasts a strong faculty team that integrates theory with practice, including renowned professors with significant academic and social influence, distinguished CPA instructors, “dual-competency” faculty members with both academic credentials and extensive practical experience, as well as visiting professors with solid theoretical foundations and rich industry backgrounds.

More than 60% of graduates from the Auditing (CPA) program have pursued postgraduate studies, and many have been recruited by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, as well as leading domestic and international accounting firms. Media outlets such as China Accounting News have highly acclaimed the School’s talent development model and published feature reports on its achievements. Survey results show that 100% of parents support their children’s admission to the School, with a satisfaction rate of 99.04% regarding its educational model.

Yangtze University is the largest comprehensive university among provincial universities in Hubei Province, offering the most extensive disciplinary coverage. It is a key university in Hubei Province's High-Level University Program and a selected university under China’s Education Power Construction Plan and the Provincial First-Class University Construction University in Hubei Province. The University is jointly sponsored by the People’s Government of Hubei Province and China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Corporation and is also co-established by the People’s Government of Hubei Province and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China.

 

In September 2016, ZSZH reached a cooperative education agreement with Yangtze University. Leveraging their respective strengths and resources, the two parties jointly established a collaborative education platform and launched the Accounting Special Class at Yangtze University, with a focus on cultivating interdisciplinary accounting professionals aligned with the future development needs of the accounting profession.

 

Both parties are committed to strengthening collaborative talent development mechanisms, deepening academia-industry integration and promoting closer alignment between higher education and professional practice. Through enhanced university–enterprise collaboration, the Accounting Special Class aims to strengthen students’ practical professional competencies, facilitate a smooth transition from academic study to professional employment and cultivate high-caliber accounting professionals for the industry and enterprises.

 

Since the launch of the inaugural Accounting Special Class in October 2016, the two parties have adopted an integrated teaching model that combines theoretical instruction with practical training, placing equal emphasis on professional expertise and comprehensive professional competencies. The collaboration has delivered tangible results in curriculum development and applied research. To date, over 200 graduates of the Class have joined ZSZH.