The Department of E-commerce was established in 2002. It is currently one of the teaching institutions under the School of Management Science and Engineering. There are 10 full-time teachers, including 4 doctoral supervisors, 4 professors, 5 associate professors, and 1 member of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education. All teachers have doctoral degrees and are actively introducing high-level teachers from home and abroad . In 2005, the Department of E-commerce and the People's Bank of China jointly established the "Southwestern University of Finance and Economics China Payment System Research Center". At the same time, it has close cooperation with well-known domestic e-commerce companies and the Central Enterprise E-commerce Industry Alliance. The secretariat of the National E-commerce Industry Education and Development Alliance (50-person Forum) is located in our department. In 2023, in response to the school's "14th Five-Year Plan" strategic deployment, implement the "New Finance" strategic upgrade of the 13th Party Congress of the school, solve the problems in "New Finance" and "Digital Economy", and cultivate cross-compound talents who understand both "e-commerce" and "digital economy" to serve the country's major needs. The Department of E-Commerce has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with the National Financial Regulatory Bureau, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the People's Bank of China, China UnionPay, Alibaba, JD.com and other institutions, as well as commercial departments of many cities and prefectures across the province. It also has long-term close cooperative relations with relevant departments of many famous universities at home and abroad.

In terms of professional construction, the Department of E-commerce currently has an undergraduate major in E-commerce, which is responsible for training graduate students in the fields of digital business and social governance in the major of management science and engineering. At present, the Department of E-commerce has won many honors and awards in professional construction. In 2008, the E-commerce major was rated as a provincial characteristic major. In the same year, it joined the Eurasian E-commerce Education and Research Alliance (eBEREA); in 2019, the E-commerce major was selected as a first-class undergraduate major in Sichuan Province; in 2021, the E-commerce major was selected as a national first-class undergraduate major construction site.

In terms of teaching achievements, the following achievements have been made in the training of e-commerce professionals: "Internet Finance" was approved as a Sichuan Province boutique online course in 2019, "Electronic Payment" was approved as a Sichuan Province Course Ideological and Political Demonstration Course by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education in 2019, and was approved as a Sichuan Province online and offline hybrid first-class course in 2021. At present, one national first-class undergraduate course, one Sichuan Province online boutique course, and one Sichuan Province Course Ideological and Political Demonstration Course have been established. In addition, teachers from the Department of E-commerce have won the second prize of the Sichuan Province Teaching Achievement Award, presided over 6 provincial teaching reform projects, published 9 teaching reform papers, and published more than 20 textbooks. The Department of E-commerce actively encourages students to participate in various domestic and international competitions. Students have won first prizes and other honors in many competitions such as the "National College Students' E-commerce 'Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship' Challenge", "National College Students' Mathematical Modeling Competition", "'Challenge Cup' National College Students' Extracurricular Academic Works Competition", "Citi Cup Financial Innovation Application Competition", and "Guanghua Entrepreneurship Competition".

In terms of scientific research, teachers of the Department of E-Commerce have published many high-level academic papers in well-known domestic and foreign journals such as "Management World", "Nankai Management Review", "Scientific Research Management", "Information and Management", "Decision Support Systems", "International journal of Electronic Commerce", "International Journal of Information Management", "Electronic Commerce Research and Application", "Computers in Human Behavior", "International Journal of Production Research", and "Behaviour & Information Technology" in recent years.

The Department of E-Commerce will adhere to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people on the basis of existing achievements. Under the guidance of the strategic upgrade of "New Finance" of our school, it will stick to the path of financial and technological innovation and development, actively promote the cross-integration of e-commerce majors with other financial majors and digital technologies, provide talent support for the development of my country's digital economy, actively promote scientific research related to the digital economy, and serve the major needs of my country's economic and social development.