To widely explore and annotate the history of Chinese finance and taxation, to unfold its achievements in the times of reformation and opening-up, and to facilitate its future development and creation, the Ministry of Finance determined to establish China Finance Museum at the beginning of 1999. Yet under new situation in December 2003, it was renamed China Finance and Taxation Museum by the Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation, becoming a department directly under the Ministry of Finance while managed by State Administration of Taxation as well.
China Finance and Taxation Museum is built up in Hangzhou, a historical city in South China. Occupying an area of 27 mu (18000 square meters) and a floor space of 12000 square meters, it is located at the northwestern foot of Wushan Mountain, 200 meters away from the West Lake.
China Finance and Taxation Museum is devoted to its professional area by building a platform and three centers ¨C a platform of education and communication both for public and professional quarters, bringing architecture and digitization merging into a whole, an exhibition center of history and culture of finance and taxation, an academy and research center and an information center of finance and taxation ¨C which help to carry forward the finance and taxation culture and support its reformation and economic development. |