Guangdong Institute of Petrochemical Technology is a public undergraduate university jointly established by Guangdong Provincial People's Government, China Petrochemical Group, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group and China Offshore Oil Group Co., Ltd., the only petrochemical university with characteristics in South China, a pilot university of the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, and a high-level science and engineering university in Guangdong Province, and a master's degree awarding unit.

The school is located in Maoming, the largest petrochemical production base and fruit production base in the south of China, a beautiful coastal city in Guangdong Province, covering an area of 1 359,600 square meters (about 2,040 mu) and divided into three campuses: Guandu, Xicheng and Guanghua. The school was founded in 1954, adhering to the motto of "respecting morality, being knowledgeable, being realistic and innovative", adhering to the school-running concept of "being born of oil and contributing to it" and carrying forward the school spirit of "working hard, being realistic and contributing" and "listening to the call of the party and serving the country"; Guangyou's "spirit of moving westward" is hard-working and loyal, and has trained a large number of management elites, technical backbones and all kinds of applied talents, which are distributed in petrochemical enterprises, government agencies at all levels, scientific research institutes and education industries all over the country, making important contributions to the petrochemical industry and local economic and social development, and is an important base for talent training in petrochemical industry.