Sun Yat-Sen University

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Sun Yat-sen University, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen and with an educational tradition spanning over 100 years, is a preeminent research, academic and cultural center and the premier location for talent development in South China. Under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, and strongly supported by both the Ministry and Guangdong Province, Sun Yat-sen University has developed into a modern comprehensive university that enjoys a reputation as a top-tier university nationally and a renowned university internationally. With five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai, and Shenzhen, and ten affiliated hospitals, the University is striving to become a world-class university and global center of learning.
Built on a solid multidisciplinary foundation of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, and engineering, Sun Yat-sen University is propelled forward by the continuous pursuit of academic innovation. The basic guiding philosophy is oriented toward academic frontiers, oriented toward national primary strategic needs, and oriented toward national and regional economic and social development. The joint development of five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai, and Shenzhen will jointly support the development of the entire University. The University is pushing forward the transformation from external development to internal development, the transformation from normal development to active development, and the transformation from a university with discrete advantages in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medical sciences to a university where humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, and engineering can integrate and develop while retaining their distinctive characteristics. Now, standing at a new starting point, Sun Yat-sen University strives to enter both the national first-tier universities and the ranks of world-class elite universities, building a first-class socialist university with Chinese characteristics.
Founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen -- a great leader of the 20th century, Sun Yat-sen University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning characterized by its revolutionary spirit. The mission of SYSU is to advance knowledge and educate students in arts, science, technology, and other academic areas that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
SYSU is the center of learning and culture in South China, where great academic masters gather together. Many renowned scholars in early modern and modern China once taught at the University. Their strong characteristics and outstanding academic achievements have influenced generations of students and urged them to advance great academic traditions. They carry on the traditions of the forerunners and become the academic pillars of the University. Faculty and students work together to create a liberal academic atmosphere for interdisciplinary studies, provide favorable conditions for students to learn and grow, and build a harmonious academic environment for science and technology innovation and cultural inheritance and innovation.
The aim of talent cultivation at SYSU is to nurture high-quality, interdisciplinary, and top-notch students with international perspectives, a sense of social responsibility, and an innovative spirit. To achieve this goal, faculty and staff make unremitting efforts to innovate talent cultivation mechanisms following the fundamental principle of “educating with love.”

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