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Guangzhou Nanfang University
China

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Official website: https://www.nfu.edu.cn
Tel：020-22326212
Address：Guangzhou Nanfang University, No. 882, Wenquan Avenue, Conghua District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Guangzhou Nanfang College (formerly Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University) is a comprehensive applied undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education in 2006. The school has been committed to building a first-class applied university in China and striving to become the banner of diversified development of higher education in Guangdong Province. At present, the school has been approved to become a doctoral workstation establishment unit in Guangdong Province, a master's degree awarding project construction unit in Guangdong Province, a supporting unit for the National Social Science Fund Project and the National Natural Science Fund Project, a pilot institution for comprehensive reform of the higher education system in Guangdong Province, and the first batch of pilot universities for transformation of ordinary undergraduates in Guangdong Province. School Overview Basic Information The school is located in Conghua District, Guangzhou, which is known as the "Pearl on the Tropic of Cancer" and the "Back Garden of Guangzhou". The campus covers an area of 1,092.09 acres. The campus is well-planned, beautiful and quiet, and is a place to cultivate sentiments and study. The school has 11 colleges and departments with 44 undergraduate majors, forming a discipline system with management, literature, and engineering as the main subjects, and coordinated development, reasonable structure, and complementary advantages in economics, medicine, and art. There are 19,061 full-time students. After more than ten years of construction, the school has a thousand-acre campus, a scale of 10,000 people, a complete range of disciplines, a gathering of famous teachers, and a large number of talents. The school library has a construction area of 2.90,000 square meters, with nearly 3,000 reading seats. It has rich literature and information resources, with nearly 100 Chinese and foreign databases available for use. The library is open more than 100 hours a week, and the network service is uninterrupted 24 hours a day, meeting readers' needs in all aspects. The school implements the principle of "benefiting students' growth, teachers' development and the school's future". With the school charter as the core, it builds a management system of "board of directors' authorization management, principal team-led school management, and relevant groups' decentralized governance", and establishes an internal governance mechanism of "three-horse team" (principal, secretary's office meeting + academic committee + finance and economics committee) decision-making mechanism + two major subjects (faculty and staff representative conference + student representative conference) democratic participation mechanism + social representative (supervision committee) supervision mechanism to ensure that the school's decision-making is scientific, democratic and efficient; build an operating mechanism of "school macro-coordination, departmental active service, and college and department autonomous academic management" to fully mobilize the initiative, enthusiasm and creativity of college and department talent training; build a teacher development mechanism of "attracting, retaining and using well" and a student growth mechanism of "free choice, strict management, and careful guidance" to help teachers' personalized development and students' all-round growth and success. School Positioning The school is based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and has built a discipline and professional system that crosses and penetrates management, economics, medicine, literature, art and engineering, and develops coordinated development. It focuses on the development of engineering, business and medical (medical technology) that are in short supply in society and crosses artificial intelligence and big data; it focuses on applied undergraduate education, and actively develops professional degree graduate education, and cultivates high-quality compound application talents with ideals, beliefs, civic literacy and sound personality, solid professional foundation and outstanding innovative practical ability for the economic and social development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; through "strengthening the foundation, gathering characteristics and highlighting the brand", it strives to build the school into a high-level university with a sound management system, ranking among the top applied universities in China and distinctive characteristics. School characteristics Holistic education, building a "three-dimensional" training program The school breaks the phenomenon of "two skins" of knowledge inheritance and student growth, organically integrates ideological and political education, professional education, general education and growth education, and builds a three-dimensional talent training program that integrates "discipline professional knowledge teaching, core value inheritance, and ability and quality cultivation". Personalized education, building an "autonomous" growth platform. The school implements free transfer of majors and a full credit system, allowing students to choose majors, courses and teachers independently according to their personal interests and growth needs under the guidance of tutors. Students are encouraged to actively participate in subject competitions and participate in tutors' research topics, forming a training model that provides a personalized platform for students' growth. All-staff education, creating an "integrated" education team. The school breaks the educational boundaries between ideological and political education, general education and student work, establishes a student growth education center, implements a full-time tutor system, and creates a teacher education community. The school employs those with rich social experience in various fields of party, government, military, civilian and academic studies who are interested in student training as chief student growth tutors, selects outstanding teachers and administrative personnel as student growth tutors, and forms a tutor group through chief tutors, counselors, academic tutors, ideological and political tutors, industry tutors and peer tutors to create an education community and help students develop their abilities and qualities. Collaborative education, practicing the "six co-construction" training mechanism. More than 90% of the school's majors have achieved collaborative education between government, industry and enterprises, forming a talent training mechanism for industry-education integration of "government, school, industry and enterprise co-construction of disciplines and majors transformation and development management consulting team, dual-teacher and dual-ability teacher team, application-oriented talent training program, application-oriented courses, application-oriented teaching materials, industry-university-research-use platform". School-running achievements Discipline development The school implements the "differentiation" dislocation development and "unbalanced" support and development strategies to build distinctive and high-level disciplines. There are 4 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 6 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 2 provincial key disciplines, 1 national first-class undergraduate course, 11 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 15 provincial ideological and political demonstration projects, 5 provincial quality resource sharing courses and 5 provincial online open courses. In April 2023, the Alumni Association of Aires released the 2023 Alumni Association China University Rankings. Our school ranked second among comprehensive private universities in China and first among private universities in Guangdong Province. The school pays attention to scientific research and industry-university-research work. It has provincial and ministerial platforms such as the Provincial Engineering Technology Center of General Colleges and Universities and the Characteristic New Think Tank of General Colleges and Universities. It has built a number of applied scientific research platforms that serve the local economic and social development and brought together high-level scientific research teams in various disciplines. In the past three years, the school has undertaken a number of scientific research projects including the National Social Science Fund and the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project. Teachers have publicly published hundreds of high-level papers included in CSSCI, SSCI, SCI, and other domestic and foreign core journals, and one paper has been published in PNAS. Teacher Construction The school attaches great importance to the construction of the talent team. Since 2014, it has continuously strengthened the introduction and cultivation of talents through talent projects such as the Taiwan Doctor Special Talent Attraction Plan, the Double-Qualified Doctor Teacher Construction Plan, the Discipline Leader Attraction and Cultivation Plan, the Young Teacher Empowerment Plan, and the Young and Middle-aged Key Teacher Training Plan, and has brought together a team of teachers who are mainly full-time and young teachers, with a combination of full-time and part-time teachers, broad vision, and excellent quality. The school adheres to the teacher-oriented principle. In order to promote the growth of teachers, the school has implemented a reform of teacher classification evaluation. Through teacher classification management and classification evaluation, it has gradually realized the classification development of teachers. In recent years, the school teachers have made continuous breakthroughs in teaching and scientific research. They have won 1 first prize in the provincial education and teaching achievement award, 1 second prize in the provincial education and teaching achievement award, the second prize in the first national college teacher teaching innovation competition (the only one of its kind in the province), the special prize in the Guangdong college teacher teaching innovation competition, and the gold medal in the final of the first national postdoctoral innovation and entrepreneurship competition (one of the 57 gold medals in the country). Teachers have also made new achievements in the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation, the Provincial Natural Science Foundation, the Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Project, as well as invention patents, scientific and technological achievements transformation, government consulting reports, etc., and have contributed their talents in integrating into and serving the local area. The school focuses on applied undergraduate education, actively develops professional degree graduate education, and implements the three-in-one three-dimensional talent training program of "imparting disciplinary professional knowledge, inheriting core values, and cultivating capabilities and qualities". It strives to implement a talent training mechanism that integrates disciplines and majors and integrates industry, science and education. It has established a student growth mentor group with "senior people from government, schools, and enterprises as chief mentors + key faculty and staff of the school as professional mentors, general mentors and counselors", formulated a student growth and education program of "starting dreams, building dreams and realizing dreams", and implemented a student growth mechanism of "free choice, strict management, and careful guidance" to enhance students' internal motivation. Promote the all-round development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor qualities; implement the "cross-professional, integration of science, industry and education, and combination of general and specialized" compound high-quality innovative application talent training mechanism, and pilot the German dual-system talent training model in health, medical care, medical technology and engineering disciplines; implement "large-class teaching, small-class seminars", promote the use of hybrid, case-based, project-based and other teaching methods, cultivate students' knowledge transfer, cross-border integration, application innovation and critical thinking and other high-level abilities, and cultivate high-quality compound application talents with ideals, beliefs, civic literacy and sound personality, solid professional foundation and outstanding innovative practical ability for the economic and social development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In the past three years, the school has won two projects in the first phase of the Ministry of Education's supply-demand docking employment education project, the first prize of the typical experience group of employment work and typical experience of entrepreneurship work for ordinary college graduates in Guangdong Province, the second prize of the 10th Guangdong University Student Career Teaching Competition, and the sixth and seventh China International "Internet +" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition National Competition Silver Award (the only similar university in the province to win the award for two consecutive years). 1 silver medal in the industry track of the Guangdong Division of the 8th China International "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. 1 bronze medal in the main track of higher education and 2 bronze medals in the industry track of the Guangdong Division of the 9th China International "Internet +" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. In 2021, the school obtained 1 Sino-foreign cooperative education project approved by the Ministry of Education (cooperative major: data science and big data technology), and was approved for the 121 dual degree project of the Ministry of Education's "China-US Talent Training Program" (cooperative major: accounting, finance, economics). The vision and goals are as strong as a rock, and the mission is on the shoulder. Based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, our school will continue to work hard with the determination to innovate, the concept of innovative development, and the truth-seeking and pragmatic style, and work hard and persevere to continuously improve the level of school management, and step by step towards the beautiful vision of building a high-level university with distinctive characteristics that ranks among the top applied universities in China!