On January 10, the list of winners for the Hubei Quyuan Cultural Award was announced. The Humanities and Social Sciences Edition of our University’s journal was successfully selected, thanks to its solid academic quality and distinctive editorial characteristics, making it the only university journal to receive this honor in the current selection.

Since its inception, the Humanities and Social Sciences Edition has consistently adhered to its editorial mission of “advancing scholarship, serving societal needs, innovating theories, and cultivating talent”. It has deeply explored the field of ethnic studies while also encompassing achievements from multiple disciplines. The journal has launched distinctive columns including “Forging a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation”, “Ethnic Theory and Policy Studies”, “21^stCentury Marxism”, “Research on CPC History and Party Building”, and “Cultural Heritage and the Inheritance of Civilization”, publishing a series of original and forward-looking academic papers. In recent years, numerous articles from the journal have been republished by authoritative digest publications such asXinhua Digest,China Social Science Excellence, andChinese Social Science Digest. Its impact factor has ranked among the top of national ethnic studies journals for several consecutive years. The journal has been successively recognized as a CSSCI source journal, a national core Chinese journal, a core journal in Chinese humanities and social sciences, one of the top 100 university social science journals in China, an authoritative social science journal of national universities, and one of Hubei's most influential academic journals. Its composite impact factor has risen from 2.462 at the beginning of the “14^thFive-Year Plan” period to 4.325 in 2025, demonstrating its continuously growing academic influence.

A representative from the journal's editorial department stated that this award not only marks a brilliant conclusion to the academic publishing achievements of the Humanities and Social Sciences Edition during the “14^thFive-Year Plan” period, but also injects strong momentum for its pursuit of higher quality development at the outset of the “15^thFive-Year Plan” period. The Humanities and Social Sciences Edition will continue to adhere to the principle of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as its main theme, focus on disciplinary frontiers, promote academic innovation, and strive to enhance its editorial quality and academic influence. It aims to become an important academic platform serving the overall national development strategy and promoting the integrated high-quality development of disciplines and research, contributing greater efforts to the flourishing of philosophy and social sciences and supporting the strategy of building Hubei into a culturally strong province in the new era.

It is reported that the “Hubei Quyuan Cultural Award” is jointly organized by the Publicity Department of Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Hubei Province. It evolved from the “Qu Yuan Award for Hubei Literature and Art”, which was established in 1988. The award aims to recognize outstanding works, talents, and organizations with remarkable contributions in fields such as literature, art, and publishing, representing the highest-level comprehensive cultural award in Hubei Province. In this year's selection, the award established a publishing prize for the first time, focusing its evaluation on core indicators such as content quality, editorial standards, social benefits, industry influence, and the outstanding contributions of professionals in the field.