There are 10 universities in Dongguan University, namely: Dongguan Institute of Technology, Dongguan Institute of Technology, Guangdong Medical University (Dongguan Campus), Guangdong Institute of Science and Technology, City College of Dongguan Institute of Technology, Xinhua College of Sun Yat-sen University (Dongguan Campus), Guangdong Vocational College of Innovation and Technology, Guangdong ATV Performing Arts Vocational College, Guangdong Vocational College of Hotel Management and Dongguan Open University.

Dongguan is one of the prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province and the central city on the east coast of the Pearl River Delta in China.

Dongguan is located in the south of China, south-central Guangdong Province, on the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary, with Guangzhou in the northwest, Shenzhen in the south and Huizhou in the northeast. Promoting the integration with Guangzhou Port and urban rail transit is one of the central cities in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen metropolitan area and the first of the "Four Little Tigers in Guangdong". Known as the "world factory", it is an important transportation hub and foreign trade port in Guangdong, with 2065438+.

Dongguan is one of the representative cities of Guangfu culture, an important birthplace of Lingnan culture, the beginning of China's modern history and the pioneer of reform and opening up, an important transportation hub and foreign trade port in Guangdong, and is listed as the first batch of national comprehensive experimental zones for new urbanization and a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong. There are about 1.2 million compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao and about 300,000 overseas Chinese in Dongguan. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and Cantonese opera, and has successively won the titles of national forest city, international garden city, national civilized city and national basketball city.

The history of Dongguan can be traced back to the Neolithic Age. In the pre-Qin period, Dongguan belonged to South Vietnam.

In 2 14 BC, Qin Shihuang merged with Lingnan, and Dongguan belonged to Panyu County, guangzhou fu and Nanhai County.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dongguan belonged to Jiaozhou. Shun Di set up Zengcheng County in Panyu, and Dongguan belonged to Zengcheng at that time.

In the sixth year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 33 1 year), Li County, Dongguan, formerly known as Baoan, was subordinate to Dongguan County (Nantou, Shenzhen).

In the second year of Tang Zhide (AD 757), it was renamed Dongguan, and the county seat was located in Yong (now Guancheng Street).