On the morning of September 29th, the Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology held its first opening ceremony.Guangzhou International Campus is a “very unusual” campus. First, it is a state-level campus jointly developed by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Government of Guangdong Province, the People’s Government of Guangzhou Municipality and SCUT. Since the signing of the four-party agreement on March 15th, 2017, GZIC has been committed to becoming a demons
On September 26th, a delegation led by Fang Jun, Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of Ministry of Education paid a visit to South China University of Technology (SCUT), with a special investigation on the opening-up education of SCUT. Tao Shaojing, Deputy Secretary of the CPC SCUT Committee, Qiu Xueqing, Deputy President of SCUT met the delegation accordingly, Li Jinjun, Director of the Office of Exchange and Cooperation, Department of Education
Students and Teachers extended their sincere wishes to the motherlandOn September 20th, South China University of Technology held welcome ceremonies to the newly enrolled 6,484 undergraduate freshmen and 6,494 graduate freshmen at three campuses. Zhang Xichun, Secretary of the CPC SCUT Committee, Gao Song, President of SCUT, Liu Qijin, Deputy Secretary of the CPC SCUT Committee and Secretary of theDiscipline InspectionCommittee, Tao Shaojing, Deputy Secretary of the CPC SCUT Committee, Qiu Xueqi
From July 2ndto July 9th, Tao Shaojing, Deputy Secretary of the CPC SCUT Committee, led a delegation to visit the Ghent University, KU Leuven(Catholic University of Leuven), the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford, and signed three university-level Memoranda of Understanding (MoU).Prof. Ignace Lemahieu, Vice President of Ghent University, met with Tao Shaojing, introducing the development and international cooperation of Ghent University. Tao Shaojing also introduced the develop
Meeting with the delegationOn the morning of June 21st,2019, Huai Jinpeng, Party Secretary of China Association for Science and Technology(CAST), accompanied by Wang Jinzhan, Director of the General Office of CAST, Su Xiaojun, Director of Enterprises Innovation Service Center of CAST, Zheng Qingshun, Party Secretary and Vice President of Guangdon Association for Science and Technology, paid a visit to South China University of Technology, for an official research on the construction of the Guang
As the Spring Festival approaching, the construction site of the Guangzhou International Campus of SCUT delivered another good news: the public laboratory building in area T and the A1 Building in Area A were completed in structure and got roof-topping on the morning of February 1st. This is another significant advance in the construction of the Guangzhou International Campus, marking that the campus construction project has entered into a new stage.At the observation meeting, Zhang Xichun, Secr
SCUTonlastSundayheldthefirstGlobalAlumniConferencetocelebrateits66thanniversaryforestablishmentandacenturyofhistorysinceitspredecessorstartedtheundertakingofeducationin1918.Theconference,taking“Beexcellent,leadsthefuture”asthetheme,washeldintheLiwuBuildingofScienceandTechnologyonDecember16,withZhangXichun,SecretaryoftheCPCSCUTCommittee,givingthekeynotespeech,andGaoSong,PresidentofSCUT,presidingovertheevent.Leadersoftheuniversity,membersoftheUniversityCouncil,aswellasrepresentativesoftheAlumniAss
Inordertostrengthenthesubstantivecooperationwithworld-classuniversitiesanddisciplines,SouthChinaUniversityofTechnologyandMcMasterUniversityhavesignedanagreementonStudentMobilityandAcademicCo-operation.ThetwopartiesagreetocarryonundergraduateexchangeandacademiccooperationbasedontheMOUbetweenthetwouniversities.McMasterUniversityagreestoaccepttheyear3andyear4SCUTstudentstotakeuponeyearcreditcourses,aswellasSCUT’sstudentsatalllevelstotakeupsummercoursesandresearchinternshipprogramsatMcMaster.Introdu
TheRhymingAutumnofSCUT,amusicalperformancepresentedbyfacultyandstudentsofSCUT,waslastweekheldatGuangzhou’sXinghaiConcertHalltocelebratetheuniversity’s66thbirthday.Theconcert,withDmitriShostakovich’sFestiveOvertureastheopening,wasanensembleofwesternclassicalmusicandChinesemodernmusic,aswellasmusiccreatedbycomposersofSCUT.YoungteachersandtheYouthSymphonyOrchestraofSCUTplayedanumberoflong-establishedmusicalworks,includingRachmaninoff’sPianoConcertoNo.2,Bach’sConcertoFor2Violins,andTchaikovsky’sTheN
SCUTwasrankedNo.361intheGlobalUniversityRankings2018publishedbytheU.S.NewsandWorldReport,movingup39placescomparedtolastyear.ThelatestrankingswereupdatedonOctober30,listingSCUTasthe18thinthemainlandChina,upfromthe19thlastyear.Insubjectrankings,SCUT’sagriculturalscience,engineering,chemistry,materialsscience,andcomputersciencewerenamedwithintheglobaltop100,whileagriculturalsciencetookaremarkableplaceatthe17thslot.ThisisthefifthyearforU.S.NewsandWorldReporttoproducetheBestGlobalUniversitiesRankings
StudentteamsofSCUTtookhometwoGoldPrizesandtwoSilverPrizesinthe4thChinaCollegeStudents’“InternetPlus”InnovationandEntrepreneurshipCompetition,settingthebestrecordinhistoryfortheuniversity.Thefinalofthecompetitionwasheldlastweekend,when210studentteamsfromacrossthecountrygatheredatXiamenUniversity,Fujianprovince,tocompetefornationaltitles.“InternetPlus”isanationwidecontestthataimstopromote“massinnovationandentrepreneurship”amongcollegestudentsofChina.Thiswasthefourtheditionoftheevent,attracting2.65