On September 3, the National Office of Philosophy and Social Science announced the list of annual projects and youth projects of the National Social Science Foundation for 2021, and three projects of our college were approved as general projects, and the number of tourism projects was among the highest in the national universities. Up to now, the college has been approved 10 high-level longitudinal tourism management research projects for all disciplines in 2021, including 4 projects of National Natural Science Foundation, 3 projects of National Social Science Foundation, 1 project of Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education, and 2 projects of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. The total number of projects is the highest among all universities in China, which is a historic breakthrough, exceeding twice the highest number of projects in the history of the college, and the annual rate of high-level scientific research projects for full-time teachers is 28%. 

The list of approved high-level longitudinal research projects in 2021 is as follows.