Following Guangdong governor Ma Xingrui's inspection tour at SCUT last week, the university administration, closely working with authorities of the province and the city, has now set up a timetable to accelerate the construction of the Guangzhou International Campus, which is expected to start recruiting students 16 months later.
The province's new elected governor Ma Xingrui, who chose SCUT as the first university to inspect after taking office earlier this year, visited the campus on May 15, when he instructed related offices of the provincial government to offer full supports to push forward the plan of building the Guangzhou International Campus as scheduled.
The inspection was accompanied by Zhang Xichun, Secretary of the CPC SCUT Committee, and Wang Yingjun, SCUT's President. After praising SCUT's significant contribution to higher education and regional development, the governor gave his expectations to see the university step up efforts to promote fundamental research, scientific innovation, faculty establishment as well as talent fostering, and thus to back the industrial upgrading of the province.
Then on May 18, a work meeting, presided by Jing Lihu, Director General of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province, was held at the Guangzhou municipal government to discuss implementing details of the new campus project, along with Zhang Xichun and Guangzhou Deputy Mayor Wang Dong attending the meeting.
According to the current schedule, SCUT's Guangzhou International Campus is set to start recruiting graduate students from August 2018, and then to open its first enrollment of undergraduate students in August 2019. The implementation of the project is jointly undertaken by the municipal government and the university.
Sources from the University News Center and the University Affairs Office
Translated and compiled by Xu PeimuEdited by Xu Peimu
