Located in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, it is a national "double-class" construction university, a national experimental school for comprehensive reform of higher education, a high-level university of science and engineering in Guangdong Province and a high-level university in Guangdong Province. Selected into Shenzhen International Friendship City University Alliance and Shenzhen University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance, it is a new public research university founded in Shenzhen under the background of national higher education reform and development.