Jinan University is the first overseas Chinese university founded by the state in China, and currently has the largest number of overseas students in China. It is a national key comprehensive university under the leadership of the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office under the "2 1 1 Project". The word "Jin 'an" comes from the article "Shangshu Gong Yu": "The east is gradually in the sea, the west is in quicksand, and the south is combined, and the sound teaches the world." It means facing South Asia and spreading Chinese culture. The school's predecessor was Jinan School, which was founded by the Qing government in Nanjing on 1906. Later, it moved to Shanghai, and 1927 was renamed as National Jinan University. During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he moved to Jianyang, Fujian. 1946 moved back to Shanghai. 1949 merged into Fudan University, Jiaotong University and other universities in August. 1958 Reconstruction in Guangzhou.

Jinan University, known as "the highest institution for overseas Chinese", abides by the motto of "loyalty and forgiveness" and pays attention to cultivating talents with the excellent traditional moral culture of the Chinese nation. The school actively implements the policy of "facing overseas, facing Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan". Since its establishment, it has trained more than 200,000 talents from five continents 142 countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, making it a peach blossom in the world.

1In June, 1996, Jinan University became a national key university facing the 2 1 century. In 2007, the school was rated as excellent in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level organized by the Ministry of Education. In 2008, the third phase of "2 1 1 project" was officially launched. Eight projects in our school, such as finance and capital market, industrial economy and regional development, comparative literature and art and overseas Chinese literature, overseas Chinese and Sino-foreign relations, aquatic ecology and algae biological resources, biotechnology and bioengineering drugs, nonlinear mechanical problems of major engineering structures, modernization of traditional Chinese medicine and integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine, have been identified as national key discipline construction projects.

The school has 27 colleges, 59 departments, 178 research institutions, 77 laboratories and 89 undergraduate majors. There are 15 doctoral degree awarding points in the first-level discipline, and only 4 doctoral degree awarding points authorized by the two disciplines; There are 38 master's degree awarding points in the first-level discipline, and only 5 master's degree awarding points authorized by two disciplines; It is to recruit and train Master of Administration (EMBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Accounting (MPAcc), Master of Law (JM), Master of Chinese International Education (MTCSOL), Master of Medicine, Master of Engineering and Master of Public Administration (MPa); At the same time, it is also a pilot school for national high-level sports teams. The school has 15 postdoctoral mobile stations (applied economics, clinical medicine, Chinese language and literature, biology, business administration, journalism and communication, China history, biomedical engineering, integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine, political science, world history, mechanics, traditional Chinese medicine, ecology and statistics) and 1 0 postdoctoral scientific research mobile station (Guangzhou Biomedical R&D Base). There are four national key disciplines (industrial economics, aquatic biology, finance, literature and art), eight key disciplines of the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, and 20 key disciplines of Guangdong Province. The four key disciplines have national key research bases for humanities and social sciences (overseas Chinese), China language and literature talent training and scientific research base of the Ministry of Education, national college students' cultural quality education base, the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office National Chinese Teaching Base and Chinese Education Base. National Engineering Center 1, Provincial Research Center 13, Key Laboratory 13. The school has five campuses in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai, and plans to build a new campus in Guangzhou. The campus covers a total area of 2,395,500 square meters, with a building area of 1 108200 square meters and a dormitory area of 283,400 square meters. The school library has 3.366 million books. There are 16 affiliated hospitals in the school, namely: First Affiliated Hospital, Shenzhen Affiliated Hospital, Zhuhai Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Red Cross Affiliated Hospital, Qingyuan Affiliated Hospital, Jiangmen Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen Eye Hospital, Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Hospital, Huangpu Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Huizhou Stomatological Hospital, Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Hospital, Shunde Women and Children Hospital, Dongguan Affiliated Hospital, Jihua Affiliated Hospital and Duff Cancer Hospital.

The school actively carries out academic education exchanges with foreign countries, and has signed bilateral agreements or established academic exchange relations with more than 238 institutions of higher learning and cultural institutions on five continents, covering 43 countries on five continents and Hong Kong and Macao. The school has offices in Hong Kong and Macau, and an education foundation in Hong Kong.

Famous scholars such as Ma Yinchu, Zheng Zhenduo, Liang Shiqiu, Qian Zhongshu, Zhou,,,, Chu Tunan, Huang Hongbin and Pan Tianshou have emerged in the history of Jinan University. At present, the school has a strong faculty, with full-time teachers 19 18, including 2 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 6 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 476 doctoral supervisors, 502 professors and 690 associate professors.

By April 20 14, there were 46,750 students of all kinds, including graduate students 1047 1 person (including doctoral students1265,438, master students 7977, on-the-job graduate students 1280) and full-time undergraduates. Overseas Chinese in school, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and foreign students 1 1532. The school has a strong style of study and a rich collection of humanities. Among them, Wu and Li Lanqing, former deputy prime ministers of the State Council, famous overseas Chinese leaders, the first president of the University of Singapore, Xu, former president of the Thai Parliament and deputy prime minister, and former president of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, as well as Wang, Xu, Tong Zhiguang, Ma Youheng and many other political, industrial, business, cultural and religious celebrities in the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao in recent years, are outstanding alumni of Jinan University in different periods. It can be said that talented people come forth in large numbers and enjoy a good reputation at home and abroad.

2 1 century is the century of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Jinan University, which shoulders the glorious mission of cultivating talents for overseas Chinese and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, has a long way to go. In the new century, all teachers, students, staff and alumni at home and abroad will continue to adhere to the school-running policy of "facing overseas, facing Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan", carry forward the Jinan spirit of "loyalty and respect for talents, unity of knowledge and practice, unremitting self-improvement and harmony without difference", adhere to the school-running concept of "quality is life, innovation is the soul", keep pace with the times, blaze new trails, and implement the development strategy of "overseas Chinese school+prestigious school".