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Guangzhou Institute of Technology
China

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Official website: https://www.gzasc.edu.cn/
Tel：020-82856989,020-82856988
Address：No. 432, Zhucun Avenue East, Zhucun Street, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province; Zhaoqing Campus: No. 20, Fengle Road, Lianhua Town, Dinghu District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province
Guangzhou Institute of Technology is a full-time general undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor was Songtian College of Guangzhou University, founded in 2000. In December 2020, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to be relocated and renamed. The school is located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with two campuses in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing, covering an area of 1,420 acres. It recruits students from all over the country and currently has more than 26,000 students. The campus construction is close to the mountains and rivers, and the layout is grand and comfortable, reflecting the concept of "mountain and water campus, literary and cultural institution". Vision: Dedicated to building the brand of applied universities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and building the school into a high-level applied undergraduate university with distinctive characteristics and reputation and influence in China. Mission: Create high added value for students' success and faculty development, and provide high-quality services for urban prosperity and regional development. School motto: Be erudite and practical, and apply knowledge to the world. Educational philosophy: Student-centered, that is, student development-centered, student learning-centered, and learning effect-centered. Development concept: standardized development, connotation development, integrated development, cluster development, and innovative development. Development strategy: quality-based school, talent-based school, open and active school, cultural school, and characteristic famous school. The school has advanced and complete teaching facilities and complete and convenient living facilities. There are 185 experimental (training) rooms, 212 multimedia classrooms, and teaching and scientific research equipment with a total value of 139.0362 million yuan to meet the teaching needs of various majors. The library has a total construction area of 47,000 square meters and a collection of more than one million books (including electronic books). It is a green, ecological, and humanistic learning space, and a people-centered smart campus information resource center, academic exchange center, and cultural heritage center. The gymnasium has a total construction area of 27,000 square meters, consisting of a comprehensive training hall, a basketball hall, and a swimming pool. It includes 18 affiliated venues such as a student physical fitness test room, a dragon and lion dance hall, a martial arts hall, a fitness hall, a dance hall, an aerobics hall, a gymnastics hall, a yoga hall, a table tennis hall, and a badminton hall, as well as a standard rock climbing field. Outside the hall, there are standard 400-meter track and field stadiums, tennis courts, and basketball courts, which together constitute a fully functional sports and cultural activity center. It is an ideal place for teaching, fitness, entertainment, leisure, and hosting various sports events. It is also one of the most functional and advanced gymnasiums in domestic universities. The campus is fully covered by broadband, wireless networks, and 5G signals, striving to achieve a deep integration of information technology and education and teaching. The student apartments are cool with air conditioning, sufficient hot water, convenient direct drinking, broadband, four-person space, and independent beds, making it a warm place for study and life. Based on the Greater Bay Area, we will cultivate high-quality applied talents and embark on a new journey. We will build a high-level applied university to strengthen the overall leadership of the Party, fully implement the Party's education policy, implement the fundamental mission of cultivating people with moral integrity, firmly establish the central position of talent cultivation in the school's work, strengthen the three-dimensional education and five-dimensional education, promote the construction of ten education systems, innovate the application-oriented talent training model, and comprehensively improve the quality of applied talent training. The "three-step" strategy focuses on the new requirements for the transformation and upgrading of applied universities, and implements the "three-step" strategy for building a high-level applied university, that is, by 2025, the school will successfully pass the undergraduate teaching work qualification assessment with high quality, and become a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics and good reputation and influence among private universities in the province; by 2030, the school will basically have the conditions for approval of professional degree master's degree programs, and become a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics and good reputation and influence in the province; by 2035, the school will meet the basic conditions for applying for a master's degree awarding institution, and become a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics and good reputation and influence in China. The five characteristic school strengthening projects take openness and integration as the fundamental path, and characteristic school strengthening as the key quality, and vigorously promote the "five characteristic school strengthening projects": namely, "undergraduate education characteristic strengthening project", "key discipline characteristic leading project", "school-local integration characteristic development project", "university culture characteristic school nourishing project", and "international cooperation characteristic school development project". The talent training goal is based on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, serving modern industrial development, and cultivating high-quality application-oriented professionals with firm ideals and beliefs, good professional qualities, solid theoretical foundation, outstanding practical ability, and innovative spirit. There are 40 undergraduate majors in seven major disciplines, including economics, law, education, literature, engineering, management, and art. "Civil and Commercial Law" and "Sports" were approved as provincial key cultivation disciplines; "Marxist Theory", "Journalism and Communication", "Computer Science and Technology", "Criminal Law", "Foreign Languages and Literature", "Electrical Engineering", "Business Administration", "Fine Arts", and "Architecture" are key construction disciplines of the school; "Social Sports Guidance and Management", "Law", and "Finance" were approved as provincial first-class undergraduate majors; "Advanced English" and "Management" were approved as provincial first-class undergraduate courses: "Law" was approved as a provincial key major, and "Finance" was approved as a provincial characteristic major; Finance, Product Design, and Law were approved as provincial comprehensive reform pilot majors; the application-oriented talent training model of foreign language disciplines was approved as a provincial talent training innovation pilot zone. In recent years, more than 800 people have won more than 300 provincial and above awards in various extracurricular academic and technological, cultural and sports art competitions at all levels; the employment rate of graduates over the years has reached more than 97%. To serve the local economic and social development, the "Guangdong Provincial Federation of Social Sciences Branch" and the "Urban and Rural Cultural Development Research Center" were established, the "Guangdong Provincial Humanities and Social Sciences Popularization Base-Incubation Base: Rural Land System Innovation and Governance Research Center", "Guangdong Shuttlecock Training Base", and "Guangdong Provincial Rock Climbing Training Base" were established. It has 5 school-level research institutes and is a member unit of Guangdong Province Decision-making Consulting. The construction of a high-level talent team focuses on the construction of a team of young backbone teachers, with the cultivation of innovative teams and teaching teams as the main line, to build a team of teachers with sufficient quantity, reasonable structure, excellent quality and vitality, to help the school build a high-level applied undergraduate university. Fully implement the "double high" teacher introduction and cultivation plan, the "double source double teacher double ability" teacher construction plan, the "double wisdom" teacher training plan, the middle-aged and young backbone teacher training plan, etc., and appoint a group of well-known professors at home and abroad as academic consultants and class professors, and appoint a large number of industry elites and "double teacher" teachers as innovation and entrepreneurship mentors. There are more than 1,200 teachers, and more than 300 teachers with associate senior titles or above. With the approval of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the school has successfully established the Guangdong Provincial Doctoral Workstation to provide platform support for the development of high-level talents. Integrate into the international development process of the Greater Bay Area and develop a high-level applied school-running pattern. The International Development Strategy of the National Medium- and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan points out that in order to improve the internationalization level of my country's education and enhance the international status, influence and competitiveness of my country's education, it is necessary to "cultivate a large number of international talents with international vision, familiarity with international rules, and the ability to participate in international affairs and international competition". The school adheres to the international development strategy, draws on international advanced educational concepts, introduces international high-quality educational resources, and cultivates international compound talents with international vision, international rules, and cross-cultural communication skills who are "proficient in majors and proficient in foreign languages", leading the school to a high-level development stage. The undergraduate and master's degree international class cooperates with the Australian Business School (King's College) and the Richmond American International University in London to carry out the undergraduate and master's degree joint training program, and cooperates with the Macau University of Science and Technology to carry out the postgraduate sponsorship program, promote the construction of international specialty majors such as accounting, financial management, computer science and technology, and software engineering, and continuously improve the international level of applied talent training. The Macau University of Science and Technology's excellent graduate program is to learn advanced school-running concepts, introduce international high-quality educational resources, strengthen discipline and professional construction, and improve the quality of international, application-oriented, and innovative talent training. The school has signed a long-term excellent graduate program agreement with the Macau University of Science and Technology. Students with academic performance scores of 3.5 or above will be recommended by the school to study for a master's degree in related majors at the Macau University of Science and Technology. The foreign-related legal talent training experimental class implements the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on strengthening the training of foreign-related legal talent, implements the central government's task requirements for the training of foreign-related arbitration talents, and adapts to the needs of the in-depth development of economic globalization and high-level opening up. The school selects outstanding students to form a foreign-related legal talent training experimental class, focusing on cultivating a group of Chinese foreign-related arbitration talents with an international perspective, understanding international rules, and being able to provide professional services in the cross-border legal service market, serving the country's major strategy of "building a high-quality and professional foreign-related arbitration talent team that unswervingly follows the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics." Adhering to scientific development and having a good social reputation, the school was listed in the "Regional First-Class Independent Colleges" in the 2020 China Alumni Network's "China Independent College Rankings"; in 2020, the Guangzhou Daily Data and Digitalization Research Institute's "Top 100 Applied Universities (Independent Colleges)" ranked the school among the top in the country; in 2021, the "Shanghai Soft Science China University Major Rankings" of higher education evaluation professional institutions, the school's social sports guidance and management major was on the list, ranking first among private undergraduate colleges and universities (including independent colleges) in the country; the school has Guangdong Province's "Doctoral Work Station" and has won the titles of "Guangdong Green School", "Guangdong National Defense Education Characteristic School" and "Guangdong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School".