Sun Yat-sen University is called Zhong Da University for short. Zhong Da University is a comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education of China. It is a national "double first-class", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project" construction university. The school is located in Guangzhou, with Chen Chunsheng, Party Secretary, and Gao Song, President. The school motto is "erudition, interrogation, deliberation, discernment and perseverance".

CUHK, formerly known as the National Guangdong University founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1924, has a school-running tradition of 100 years, and is an important academic and cultural center and a highland for talent training in southern China. Sun Yat-sen University is a comprehensive key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). At the same time, it is also a university that implements the Everest Plan,11plan, legal talent education and training plan and doctoral education and training plan.

The main campus of the school is located in Guangzhou, a modern metropolis in China, and the campus also extends to the beautiful coastal city of Zhuhai. As a well-known university with a solid foundation in humanities, social sciences and medicine, it has cultivated generations of students since its establishment a hundred years ago, and many talented graduates have become outstanding talents in all walks of life, which has a profound impact on national rejuvenation and social development.

As a university directly under the Ministry of Education of China, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, Sun Yat-sen University has become a domestic first-class and internationally renowned university through the construction of the 2 1 1 Project and the 985 Project, and is now moving towards a world-class university and striving to become a global academic center.