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Guangdong University of Foreign Studies GDUFS
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Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) is a key provincial university and a high-tier one with distinctive features of internationalization in South China in its education of internationally-oriented personnel and its research on foreign languages & culture, international trade and international strategic studies. The University serves 20,454 full-time undergraduate students, more than 2,000 graduate students and over 13,000 international and continuing-education students.

History

    GDUFS was created by a merger in 1995 of Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages and Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade. The former, one of the three renowned institutes of foreign languages in China under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education (MOE), witnessed its establishment in 1965. The latter, directly under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce), was founded in 1980 as one of the first institutions in China offering an academic program in international economy and trade. In October 2008, Guangdong College of Finance and Economics also became part of the University.

Campuses

    GDUFS is situated in Guangzhou, a city with a long history and rich cultural legacy and the economic hub in South China. The university boasts three campuses with a total area of 153 hectares. The North Campus, which covers an area of 63 hectares, is located at the northern foot of the Baiyun Mountain; the South Campus, with an area of 73 hectares, is situated in Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center; and Dalang Campus, having an area of 17 hectares, lies in Dalang, Baiyun District. The university enjoys fine surroundings featuring green trees, crystal streams, scenic bridges and fresh air.

Teaching staff

    Since the establishment of GDUFS, a large number of renowned scholars, such as Liang Zongdai, Gui Shichun and Li Xiaoju, have devoted to teaching and scholarship here, accumulating rich spiritual and cultural wealth for the University. It has a teaching staff of 1,173, among whom 48.3% are full or associate professors and 86.4% have masters and/or doctoral degrees. The University boasts one member of the Disciplinary Appraisal Panels under the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 12 members of the teaching advisory boards of various disciplines of the Ministry of Education, 6 teachers enjoying the Government Special Allowance of the State Council, 1 candidate of the New Century Hundred, Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talent Project at the state level, 6 candidates of the Program for New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, 1 national distinguished teacher, 6 provincial distinguished teachers, 1 distinguished professor of Pearl River Scholar, 30 provincial-level cultivation candidates of Guangdong Thousand, Hundred and Ten Project and 9 Yunshan Scholars. Besides, the University employs over 100 guest professors and nearly 60 foreign experts on a long-term basis.


Disciplinary Development

    The University consists of twenty-one faculties and one self-governing college (South China Business College) that offer 56 undergraduate programs in eight disciplines: literature, economics, management, law, engineering, science, education and art studies. There are eight national programs with distinctive features and another eight prestigious programs of the Province. With 14 foreign languages offered to students, GDUFS is the only university in South China that offers such a variety of languages instruction. The University was accorded the qualification to confer master degrees in 1981 and doctoral degrees in 1986, thereby becoming one of the earliest institutions in China to earn postgraduate accreditation since the country resumed its postgraduate education programs. The University is home to one national key academic discipline, six provincial key disciplines, one post-doctoral research station, one Category I discipline PhD program, seven Category II discipline PhD programs, 10 Category I discipline masters programs, 32 Category II discipline masters programs, and five professional masters programs.

Student Education

    The University upholds the motto of Pursuit of Integrity, Practice and Cross-cultural Learning and defines as its mission the training of high-caliber global citizens through the integration of content studies and foreign language training for globally minded graduates with international vision and social responsibility. They should be well-versed in international norms, excellent in ethical cultivation and competence in their chosen fields of study, strong in cross-cultural communication and hands-on creativity, and ready to engage in global competition and cooperation. The University is one of the 19 universities worldwide that are qualified to recommend high-end translation professionals to the United Nations and the only foreign studies-oriented university in the CAMPUS Asia program. The University is home to the MOE-designated Teaching and Research Center for Asian and European Minor Languages, and the MOE's Pilot Scheme for Innovative Mode of Talent Training for cultivation of internationally competitive business professionals. According to MyCos, an educational consultancy firm, the graduation index and entry-level salary of this University's graduates ranked top among the universities across China from 2008-2011, including those under the 985 and 211 categories. The University enrolls applicants from over 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the State Council, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, all in the first-round or early admission category.

Academic Research

    GDUFS is home to one of the MOE's national key research centers for humanities and social sciences, i.e. Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics; 4 provincial-level key research centers for humanities and social sciences in institutions of higher learning in Guangdong, i.e. Center for Foreign Language and Culture, Center for International Trade and Economics, Center for Translation Studies, and Research Institute of Cantonese Merchants; and one key research center for humanities and social sciences in Guangzhou Research Institute of Guangzhou International Business and Trade Center. The University also boasts Guangdong Research Institute on International Strategies and Research Institute of International Services Outsourcing. GDUFS publishes four academic journals of national impact: Modern Foreign Languages, International Economics & Trade Research, Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Journal of Strategy & ecision-Making.

International Cooperation

    GDUFS attaches great importance to a full range of cooperation and exchanges in international education. To date, it has established cooperative ties with more than 190 universities and academic or cultural institutions in 32 countries or regions. In addition, the University has co-established three Confucius Institutes overseas at Sapporo University, Japan, Ural State University, Russia and Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria, Peru.

Teaching Facilities

    GDUFS is fully equipped with advanced teaching facilities which are taking the lead among similar universities in the whole country. It boasts advanced campus network and management platforms, two provincial-level key labs and four provincial-level teaching demonstration centers, and a lab area totaling over 52,000 square meters. Covering a total area of 50,000 square meters, its libraries in the north and south campuses have a collection of 2.32 million hard-copy books, 1.7 million e-books, 3,114 domestic or foreign journals and 80 Chinese or overseas academic databases, providing network integrated management for book purchase, classification, cataloging, circulation and information search on library resources in 16 foreign languages. Its fixed assets stand at about 2.5 billion yuan.

Development Prospects

    The University adheres to the idea of whole-person education and pursuit of excellence and nurtures a campus culture of diversity, elegance and flexibility. It keeps pursuing substantive development, further reform and innovation and vigorously promotes the internationalization of education-- internationalization of teachers, students, research and management--in order to be a high-tier internationalized university with distinctive features and excellent quality and enjoying high social reputation.
(Statistics by October 31st, 2011)

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The University

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Message from the President
South China Normal University is an institution of higher learning with a long history and a rich legacy. Situated in Guangzhou, an open metropolis in South China, the University is imbued with Lingnan’s pioneering and pragmatic spirit. It has a tradition of elegant simplicity and a favourable learning atmosphere. In the past seventy years or so, the University has all along preserved its distinguishing characteristics, mainly concentrating on teacher-education and training, and has dedicated itself to training qualified teachers and professionals of other kind, viz., outstanding personnel of moral integrity, high thinking, inventive ability, with a sense of responsibility.


In the new century, in view of the fact that institutions of higher learning are all immediately concerned with social and economic development, South China Normal University has adopted an entirely new outlook, a broad world view on education. It has broadened its horizon on the key issue of cultivating talented personnel, and made its greatest efforts to create a congenial and harmonious environment for both teaching and academic research and foster a rich variety of campus culture. Its aim is to build itself into a high level comprehensive teaching and research-oriented university with open distinctive features.



Dr. Liu Ming

President of South China Normal University

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Overview

Shenzhen University (SZU) is a full-time comprehensive university accredited by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and is funded by Shenzhen Municipal Government. SZU was founded in 1983 and undertook its first enrollment the very same year at what Deng Xiaoping called "Shenzhen Speed".



SZU is comprised of two campuses, Houhai campus and Xili campus, occupying 2.9 square kilometer land area. The old campus Houhai is located on the picturesque coastline of Houhai Bay with 1.44 square kilometer land area, which boasts its own lake, spreading across rolling hills covered with lichee trees and flowers, an abundance of green space and works of art. The new under-constructed campus is located in the city's University Town occupying 1.72 square kilometer land area.

China's Ministry of Education (MOE) attached great importance on the initial establishment of SZU in the Special Economic Zone, and appointed Professor Zhang Wei, the former vice-president of Tsinghua University, and Academician of the China Science Academy and the China Engineering Academy, as the first president of the university.

SZU has drawn much attention from domestic and overseas political, academic and business circles since its foundation. Deng Xiao Ping gave his personal recommendation to the university and Jiang Zemin penned the university's characters in his own hand. Over the course of its young life, the university has received the visit of distinguished heads of state, scientists, researchers as well as that of Nobel Prize winners. Many celebrated figures have made donations to support the development of SZU and leading businesses and entrepreneurs have set up funds and scholarships in various disciplines.

In the last three decades, this dynamic university has made great strides. It has been at the forefront of many academic and administrative innovations and reforms and has widened its focus to include excellence in undergraduate teaching as well as research-intensive programs for graduate and post graduate degrees.

Indeed, in 1995, SZU passed the teaching evaluation for the undergraduate program accredited by MOE, and was among the first group of universities in China to have its undergraduate programs verified. In 1996, SZU was accredited by the Academic Degree Evaluation Committee of the State Council for Master's programs. In 1997, SZU implemented the faculty & college structure adopted a work-study program and committed to an integrated approach to teaching. Since 2000, the university has put great emphasis on research-orientated teaching and has invested heavily in providing state of the art research laboratories. In 2010 alone, the research funding totaled 130 million CNY.

SZU now has 25 colleges, providing 72 undergraduate programs. SZU owns 3 accredited primary doctoral programs covering 9 secondary disciplines, 25 accredited primary master programs covering 139 secondary disciplines and 15 accredited secondary master programs with the totality of 154 accredited master programs. SZU also owns 9 accredited special degree programs including 13 accredited engineering master disciplines with the totality of 21 accredited special degree programs. SZU has one post-doctoral station as well. The current fields of study at SZU amounted to 10. They are philosophy, literature, economics, law, pedagogy, science, engineering, management, medicine, and history.

The university faculty is noted for its high qualifications, multi-academic background and innovative spirit. It is comprised of 1,506 teachers and researchers; 372 professors, 573 associate professors, of which 822 have doctorate degrees. It has one academician in the Chinese Academy of Engineering, two academicians in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 34 supervisors of doctoral candidates.

An impressive 5787 research papers and journal articles have been published in the last five years, of which 1019 papers are included in the indexes of SCI, EI, ISTP and 813 are indexed in CSSCI. During the same period, SZU's teaching and research faculty had 356 works published, 35 of which were translated into various languages. Also in the last five years, two technical inventions won the second prize in the National Technical Invention Competition, and one was awarded the first prize in the provincial invention competition. Some 26 research papers and projects received prizes for science & innovation awarded by the People's Liberation Army as well as various research achievement prizes above the provincial level. An impressive 48 inventions and innovations from SZU have been marketed and 281 inventions have been adopted.

SZU library proudly holds a collection of roughly 3.60 million items, comprising 2.12 million journals and books and 1.50 million e-books in Chinese and foreign languages. In addition, some 40,000 full-text e-journals, 189 academic CD-ROM databases as well as online databases are accessible via PC and Internet retrieval terminals. The campus boasts 30,000 Internet connections and 99% of its classrooms and lecture halls have been digitalized.

As well as an impressive teaching faculty, the university now boasts some of the brightest students, distinguished alumni which now form a global network. The on-campus student body is 29,000 strong and an additional 14,000 off-campus students are engaged in continuing education. Every year, there are about 1,500 international students from over 40 countries sharing the SZU experience.

SZU benefits from a unique geographic location and is continually developing its international cooperation. It has granted diplomas to 2,000 graduates and trainees for the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administration Regions as well as for various positions in Taiwan. SZU has also established "dual-campus" joint-programs for undergraduate degrees with institutions in Great Britain and other foreign countries. 2,500 students have graduated from these joint programs since the university’s inception, and the quality of programs has been ascertained by the British Council. SZU annually exchanges students and teachers with its sister universities in institutions of higher learning in the United States of America, Great Britain, Japan, and South Korea.

The University has established academic-oriented internal management system. The efforts include the establishment of the Professor Committee of Human Resources composed of professors without any official positions, the Professor Committee of Budgeting, and the Academic Committee for academic oriented teacher recruitment, resource allocation, and program development. Democratic management is advocated at SZU. For example, Staff Assembly is endowed with the right of problem interrogation, cadre appraisal, and the right of supervision of university administration; the Student Assembly is endowed with the right of criticism and being informed of University affairs, and participation of the students’ affairs. SZU administration sets up open e-mail boxes to encourage free speech and improve the teacher-student relationship. SZU has implemented new reform policies of human resources in order to forge a highly scholarised teaching team, a highly specialized technical team, and a highly professional management team. The Employment Policy of Top Talents has been put into practice. SZU is committed to exquisite management and service in order to build  a humanistic and innovative campus with scholarly ambience.

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Shantou University (STU), founded in 1981 with the approval of the State Council, is a key comprehensive university under the "211 Project" in Guangdong Province. It is located in the northwestern area of Shantou, a seaside city, with its campus covering a total area of 2,087.40 mu and a total floor space comprising 445,400 sq.m.

Since its inception, Shantou University has received a generous support from the distinguished philanthropist and international entrepreneur, Mr. Li Ka-shing. The Li Ka Shing Foundation has committed and donated a total of HK$5.4 billion to support Shantou University (including the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business), of which HK$4.2 billion has already been committed and donated as of 2012. Mr. Li has given his heart and soul to the nourishment and development of the University, a manifestation of his lofty ideal to “serve the good of all” and his firm conviction that education is vital to the young generation of the country.

STU now has one National Key Discipline, 2 post-doctoral programs, 1 first-level Ph.D. degree program,25 second-level Ph.D. degree programs, 10 first-level master’s degree programs, 84 second-level master’s degree programs, 6 professional Master's Degree programs,1 Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education, 3 provincial key laboratories, 2 key laboratories of Guangdong Educational Department, 2 Ministry of Education Pilot Sites for Innovative Talent, 6 Ministry of Education First-rate Specialties, and 4 Guangdong Provincial Key Programs. The seven-year program Clinical Medicine is also offered.

A modern digital library is available at the University. Medical College has 5 affiliated hospitals with 3,294 hospital beds. The First Affiliated Hospital is awarded “National Top 100 Hospital” and graded as “Upper First-class Hospital”, providing good opportunities of internship for medical students.

Under the auspices of Li Ka Shing Foundation, the University has widely conducted international academic exchanges and cooperations, inviting world-class and well-known scholars to give lectures to the students. Among them are Nobel winners Yang Chen-Ning, Lee Tsung-Dao, and James A. Mirrlees. The University has established close relationship with almost 20 international universities from such countries as USA, UK, France, Japan, Russia, Australia and Germany, etc. Exchange programs for graduate and postgraduate students have been offered.

Shantou University is committed to the student-centered reform in terms of university administration and talent training, in order to cultivate talents with the motto, “Aspiration, Knowledge, Perseverance, Achievement”. It is also planning to relocate Medical College into the main campus and develop a globally advanced curriculum focusing on life science. Since 2002, the University has conducted a profound internationalization-oriented reform. Through a series of visionary pedagogical reforms, it aims to offer a platform for the exploration of higher educational reform in China. Comrade Li Lanqing, the former member of the Standing Committee of Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, highly praised the University as “the pilot site for higher educational reform in China”.

With the unwavering efforts over the past three decades, Shantou University has managed to meet the expectations of the Central, Provincial and Municipal authorities and Mr. Li Ka Shing. It has created a congenial environment for training talents to meet the social demands in the 21st Century, and laid a solid foundation for sustainable development. STU will strive hard to become a modern institution of higher education with favorable institutional system and high-quality education, and a leading university in China with the ability to enter the global spotlight.

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Introducing SCUT
South China University of Technology (SCUT) is one of China's key universities operating under the direct leadership of the State Ministry of Education. The university, which has a total area of 294 hectares, is situated in Guangzhou, a southern metropolitan in China. The university has two campuses: The North Campus and the South Campus.

South China University of Technology (SCUT), formerly known as the South China Institute of Technology, was established in 1952. In 1960, SCUT was awarded ranked among the key universities of China. In 1981, it was authorized by the State Council to confer doctor degrees and master degrees, and was among the first universities in the country to do so. In 1995, it was selected as one of the universities into which China will make significant investment in the 21st century. In 1999, it was rated "excellent" during the Undergraduate Teaching Assessment, and was among the first "Excellent Universities of Undergraduate Education" in the country. In the same year, a national science park was established with the authorization of State Ministry of Technology and State Ministry of Education. In 2000, Graduate School was authorized to be established. In 2001, the new cooperative construction of State Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province was implemented in SCUT and it was listed among the top universities in the country. After more than 50 years of development, SCUT has become a multidisciplinary university of high reputation in South China and in the whole country, focusing on engineering, combined with science, also promoting well coordinated development of management, economics, humanities and law.

With precise knowledge pursuit, the school eminent spirit of comity and factualism has come into being. SCUT sticks to its educational guideline of "emphasizing moral character, building well-grounded base, strengthening ability and cultivating comprehensive adaptability". And this guideline has helped cultivating exclusive technological and management talents that are welcomed to the society. In recent years, the demand of graduate students has exceeded their supply. The employment rate of its undergraduates in 2011 has reached 99.46% and that of its graduates 99.42%. Since its founding, the university has cultivated for the country over 196,000 graduates at all levels. A large number of school fellows have become technological mainstays, distinguished entrepreneurs or leading cadres. SCUT is named by the society as "a cradle of engineers" and "a cradle of entrepreneurs".

Facing the new century, SCUT will take discipline constructions as pre-requisite, regard individual as its roots, consider talent cultivation as its ultimate aim and highlight technological pursuit. SCUT intends to enlarge and extend its scale and realize the coordinated development of its scale, structure, quality and benefit. SCUT accelerates its education reform by gearing the university from multidiscipline-oriented to integration-oriented, from teaching research-oriented to research-oriented, and from partial open form to completely open form, so as to build SCUT into a top-ranking State university and a famous world-class university.

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