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On the afternoon of March 11, Guangzhou City University of Technology (GCUT) was unveiled at its front gate. Representatives of related leadership attended the ceremony, including Zhang Xichun, Secretary of CPC South China University of Technology Committee; Huang Zhenyu, president of Guangzhou Zhujiang Yunfeng Investment Co., Ltd.; Du Xiaoming, Secretary of CPC Guangzhou City University of Technology Committee; Wu Bo, president of Guangzhou City University of Technology; guests and chiefs of related departments. The ceremony was hosted by Du Xiaoming.

Wu Bo delivered a speech at the ceremony, showing appreciation for the foresight of Mr. Huang Weisong, the founder of the university, for South China University of Technology’s throwing its weight behind GCUT in the past 15 years, for the efforts of the faculty and students of GCUT over the past 10 more years as well as for the support of social individuals from all walks of life.

He pointed out that GCUT will never change its original aspiration and mission of cultivating talents for the Party and China, nor will its responsibility of serving its teachers and students change. Moreover, the close ties with South China University of Technology will continue to remain.He hoped that South China University of Technology could offer guidance and help to the future development of GCUT.

He further stressed that GCUT needed to work harder, better stimulate the future development plan to turn itself into a university with high quality, high level and outstanding features. Striving to enhance its talent cultivation, applied-orientation research and social services, GCUT endeavors to make more contributionsto economic and social development of Guangdong province and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Guangzhou Automobile College of South China University of Technology (GCUT’s former name) was approved to be built by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China on April 4, 2005 and approved to be founded on April 12, 2006. In April, 2011,it was renamed as Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology.

GCUT, a university with a sense of social responsibility

Consistent with its original aspiration of “cultivating talents for the Party and China”,  GCUT shoulders its responsibility to foster virtue through education. Originating from the wish of “running the school for social responsibility” of its founder, Mr. Huang Weisong, GCUT has kept on the educational and teaching reform, upgrading and innovation of the ways in school running, management, and talent cultivation since its founding. In this way, it has formed distinctive features of “running the school based on regional industries with their demands, business-university collaboration, and public benefits”, paving a new way of achieving leapfrog development of higher education dependent onquality educational resources.

Centered around the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, GCUT has cultivatedover 42,000 talents for society. Its graduates succeeded in seeking employment across the country as well as Hong Kongand Macao regions with itsaverage employment rate and employment quality topping among the same-level colleges and universities. Its graduate won appreciation from enterprises and employers with their practical ability and down-to-earth spirit.

GCUT, a multidisciplinary application-oriented university

With engineering as its priority, GCUT is a multidisciplinaryapplication-oriented university whose economics, management, literature, sciences, and arts also pursue coordinated development. GCUT is a demonstration university for innovation and entrepreneurship in Guangdong province, an intellectual property rights pilot university in Guangzhou and the first university passed the international accreditation of the IACBE in China.

When it started running the university, GCUT clarified to build an application-oriented university guided by the principle of “forming distinctive featureswith quality”. Focusing on the positioning, GCUT keeps up with the times, strives to improve the quality of education andcenters aroundthe development of regional industries and the building of new engineering and new liberal arts. Moreover, it plays an active role in promoting the integration of discipline chain, specialty chain and industrial chain, keeping adjusting and upgrading the overall arrangement of disciplines and majors. At present, GCUT has 16 secondary colleges with 43 majors, including 16 first-class disciplines and 24 secondary disciplines. Among these disciplines, the power system and its automation isa key characteristic discipline of Guangdong province while the mechanical manufacture and its automation is a key nurturing disciplines of Guangdong province. Meanwhile, two of its majors, namely, Mechanical Engineering and Accounting were listed as first-class undergraduate discipline construction sites of Guangdong province in 2020.

GCUT, a university aims at cultivatingquality applied-orientation talents

GCUT keeps in mind that the focus and purpose of school running lie onproviding education that satisfies people, while it regards the quality of talent cultivation as its foundation with its concentration on cultivating quality innovative applied-orientation talents. For example, it carried out “junior year strategy” that endeavors to improve the core employment competitiveness of its students. Under such strategy, junior year students start their practice with an aim to concentrate on students’ “expertise” cultivation through building a new system combined knowledge, ability and inner resources of applied-orientation talents, a training system of skills and professional qualification, a guaranteeing system of personal development and innovative practice as well as a system for employment services. Over the years, students of GCUT participated in various educational practice platform such as innovation and entrepreneurship practice bases and entrepreneurship park for college students, which they also get fruitful results.

The university also actively explores a new way and approach to talent cultivation cooperating with industries and enterprises. So far, ithas set up 5 cooperative education platform at school-level, including Collaborative Cultivation Platform for Practice and Innovation, Collaborative CultivationLeague for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Collaborative Cultivation Platform for Information and Communication Technologies, Collaborative CultivationLeague for the School of Computer Engineering and IT Enterprises and Collaborative Cultivation Platform for Universities with Jewelry Majorsand Enterprises throughIndustry-University-Research Collaboration. Moreover, there are 3 collaborative innovation centers at school-level, including Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Collaborative Innovation Center for Intelligent Technologies and Collaborative Innovation Center for Internet of Vehicles. Among these platforms, the Collaborative Cultivation Platform for Information and Communication Technologies is included in the first batch of 40 provincial collaborative platforms for talent cultivation approved by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education. Furthermore, GCUT planned to build a Development Center with the Department of Education of Guangdong Province, and jointly built the School of Big Data and Innovation Center for Big Data Application with the Dawning Information Industry Co.,Ltd. Through industry-university-research collaboration, it focuses on the cultivation of talents for big data industry. In 2019, the Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing Industry was included in the first batch of the demonstration industrial institutes of Guangdong province.

GCUT, a university with a broad international perspective

Centering around the Belt and Road Initiative and the requirement of internationalized talents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, internationalized education serves as an important development strategy of GCUT. It has established cooperation with more than 10 countries and region with developed educational resources including Britain, Canada and French as well as Taiwan region. Besides, it has signed cooperation agreement with over 60 high-level universities to carry out diversified exchanges and cooperation.

Meanwhile, GCUT actively promotes international accreditation of its majors. Accredited by the IACBE and IEET, it became the first university that is accredited by the IACBE while winning itself the vice-president unit of IACBE in Asia. Its 11 majors passed the accreditation of the IACBE, including International Economics and Trade, Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Electronic Commerce, International Economics and Trade (international class), International Economics and Trade (bilingual class), Accounting (international class) and Accounting (bilingual class), which demonstrates that all its schools that offer majors concerning business studies passed the accreditation. It symbolizes that the quality of education in business studies has drawn level with its international peers. Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering were accredited by the IEET, implying that they are all consistent with the international standards of engineering education.

GCUT, a university with quality teachers

Committed to the strategy of “strengthening the university through talent cultivation”, GCUT improves the quality of itsteaching faculty by measures such as “experienced teachers help to supervisenew teachers”, “double hundred project”, organizing discipline teams. Therefore, it has formed a quality teaching faculty with its own teachers, teachers selected bythe South China University of Technology as the majority while part-time teachers as the complement.Among these teaching faculty, there is 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 national outstanding workers in education circles, 3 teachers enjoying special government allowances of the State Council, 3 outstanding teachers of Guangdong province, 1 provincial exemplary individuals of teachers’ code of morality, 4 outstanding teachers of provincial private universities and 3 provincial outstanding teachers.

Focusing on the construction of platform for scientific and technological innovation and its industrialization, GCUT attaches great importance to applied research and  commercialization of its achievements. Based on the platform for scientific and technological innovation and commercialization of its achievements as well as the platform for industrial technology services founded in succession, namely, Engineering Research Institute and the Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing Industry, it has made a number of achievements in quality scientific research. In the past 5 years, GCUT’s 235 scientific research projects were approved, with an actual research funds of 51.28 million yuan. 1377 papers were published, including 392 above - CSTPCD - level journals and 103 papers published at the SCI, EI and ISTP. 1,375 patents were applied, 1,057 among which were granted. The number of patents applied and granted of GCUT tops among private universities in Guangdong province.

GCUT, a university with favorable conditions of school running

Located in Huadu District of Guangzhou, where is also included in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, GCUT covers an area of around 1,753 mu (about 289 acres) with favorable conditions such as its transportation and geographic location. Surrounded by mountains and waters with evergreen trees and various flowers, GCUT also providesdifferent kinds of infrastructure, including standard track field and swimming pool, stadium, tennis court andStudent Activity Center. Meanwhile, it provides well-rounded guarantee for its teachers and students with outstanding teaching conditions and necessary facilities. For example, air conditioning and WIFI are fully covered in teaching and dormitory areas.

Moreover, there are 14 experimental centers (including 5 basic experimental centers and 9 specialized experimental centers), 268 laboratories and 543 employment and internship bases. Furthermore, it has 1 national extra-curricular practice bases for college students, 2 national marker places, 7 provincial demonstration centers for experimental teaching, 7 provincial extra-curricular practice bases for college students and 1 provincial platform for collaboration in joint training.As for its majors, it has 2 provincial first-class majors, 11 quality majors with engineering characteristics, 3 provincial quality demonstration major for engineeringapplied-orientation talents cultivation and 3 provincial pilot comprehensive reformproject of quality engineering majors, which provides a strong support for cultivating quality applied-orientation talents.

With a new name, GCUT ushers in a new journey. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, GCUT will continue to stay consistent withthe Party’s guiding principle for education, adhere to the socialist direction of school running, carry out the fundamental task of  “foster virtue through education”. In this way, it highlight its focuson running school, that is,for public benefit. Boosting the economic and social development of China and Guangdong province, it march forward courageously to build a first-class application-oriented university in Guangdong province and a well-knownone in China.