Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, referred to as "Guangwai" for short, is a key university with distinctive international characteristics in Guangdong Province. It has been selected into the national high-level university construction graduate program, the national "featured key discipline program", the China government scholarship institution to receive international students in China, and the national college students' cultural quality education base.

China Demonstration Base for Studying Abroad by the Ministry of Education, "Key Discipline Construction of High-level Universities" in Guangdong Province, and Asian College Students' Collective Action Exchange Program ("Asian Campus" Program).

It is a cooperative university in China, a joint member of CIUTI and FIT, the first batch of units of the World Translation Education Alliance (WITTA), and an important base for international talent training and foreign language and culture, foreign economic relations and trade, and international strategic research in South China.

The school's predecessor was Guangzhou Foreign Studies Institute and Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade. Guangzhou Foreign Studies University was established in June 1964+0 1, and officially enrolled students in July 1965. It is one of the 36 universities directly under the former State Education Commission (now the Ministry of Education).

Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade, founded in 1980 and 65438+February, is an institution directly under the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce) and one of the founding units of the national international economy and trade discipline. 1995 In May, Guangdong Provincial People's Government merged the two universities to form Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. On June 5438- 10, 2008, Guangdong Vocational College of Finance and Economics was merged into Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

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