The international campus is located in Innovation City on the south bank of Guangzhou University Town, covering an area of about 65,438+0,650 mu, with a construction area of over 600,000 square meters. The total investment of the project is expected to exceed 654.38+000 billion yuan, mainly including teaching, scientific research, administration, library, sports and living quarters.
As of May 20 18, Guangzhou International Campus has established three colleges and five research institutes in the first phase.
Postgraduate training and scientific research have been started, namely, Advanced Materials Internationalization Demonstration College, Biomedical Science and Engineering College and Wu Xianming Intelligent Engineering College, as well as five research institutes including South China Advanced Soft Materials Science and Technology Institute, South China University of Technology-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Joint Research Institute, Guangzhou Intelligent Engineering Research Institute, Material Genetic Engineering Innovation Center and Biomedical and Regenerative Medicine Joint Research Institute, focusing on basic research, key core technology research and high-end talent training.
The significance of establishing an international campus in South China University of Technology.
Chen Baosheng, Minister of Education, said that the joint construction of Guangzhou International Demonstration Campus of South China University of Technology by the ministries, provinces and cities is a beneficial attempt to build a world-class university by the four parties, which will strongly promote the pace of building South China University of Technology into a world-class university and a world-class discipline. South China University of Technology International Campus should adhere to the correct direction of running a school, take moral education, reform and innovation, demand-oriented, improve innovation ability and service level, and provide talent guarantee and intellectual support for Guangdong to vigorously implement the innovation-driven development strategy.
The Ministry of Education will actively support South China University of Technology in promoting the construction of an international campus, and will, as always, support Guangdong Province in promoting education reform and development.
Ma Xingrui, governor of Guangdong Province, said that Guangdong Province regards the construction of a national science and technology industry innovation center as the core orientation of innovation and development, and strives to build an innovative economic structure. In this process, it is very important to give full play to the role of universities, especially high-level universities. The joint construction of Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology by the ministries, provinces and cities will accelerate the innovation of management system and operation mechanism, accelerate the upgrading of internationalization and scientific research innovation ability of South China University of Technology, and provide strong support for Guangdong to build a strong province of education and talents and implement the strategy of innovation-driven development.
Guangdong Province will fully support the construction of South China University of Technology and Guangzhou International Campus, and fully implement various safeguard measures.
Guangzhou Mayor Wen said that Guangzhou will fully implement the agreement and, together with South China University of Technology, build Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology with a high standard and a high starting point based on serving the country's major strategic needs, and make it a demonstration campus for cooperation between local cities and institutions, and become a new business card, brand and benchmark for Guangzhou's higher education.
Wang Yingjun, president of South China University of Technology and academician of China Academy of Engineering, said that building an international campus is of great significance for deepening the comprehensive reform of higher education and is a milestone for the school's own development. South China University of Technology will make the international campus a model of cooperative education.
She said that the establishment of Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology by the four parties is a new historical moment of education in China, and it is also the result of years of hard development and brewing of South China University of Technology. "Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology is different from other domestic universities in the past, but it is at a brand-new high starting point."