Guangzhou Sport University, founded in July 1956, is the only sports undergraduate institution in South China, and one of the earliest sports professional institutions in China since the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is affiliated to the Guangdong Provincial People's Government. It is a university that has the right to award master's degrees in the first-class discipline of physical education (including all master's degrees in two disciplines) and the right to award master's degrees in sports medicine in medicine. It is an on-the-job training unit for senior, middle and junior coaches in several sports events of the State Sports General Administration, and has the right to approve first-class referees and first-class athletes.