Introduction to GuangZhou

Guangzhou, also known as Suì, Yangcheng and Huacheng, is the capital and sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province. It is a national center city and a world-famous port city, as well as a significant economic, financial, trade, transportation, exhibition, and shipping center in China. Since the Qin Dynasty, Guangzhou has been the administrative center of the county, prefecture, and government. For more than 2,000 years, it has been the political, military, economic, cultural, and educational center of southern China. In 1982, Guangzhou was announced by the Chinese State Council as one of the first national historical and cultural cities of China.

As one of the largest and oldest foreign trade ports and starting points of the Maritime Silk Road in China, Guangzhou is known as the "Millennium Commercial Capital." With a large number of foreigners residing, it is also known as the "Third World Capital."

Guangzhou covers a total area of 7,434 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 11 districts. It has a maritime subtropical monsoon climate, with warm and rainy weather, sufficient light and heat, and evergreen plants throughout the year.

Located in the southern part of mainland China, the central and southern part of Guangdong Province, and the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou is the southern gate of China, an international comprehensive transportation hub, and one of the three major comprehensive gateway cities in China designated by the State Council. It is also known as one of the "Big Four" cities in China, along with Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Its social, economic, and cultural radiation extends to Southeast Asia. It is the core city of the Greater Bay Area, the Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, and a hub city of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Introduction to Sun Yat-sen University

Sun Yat-sen University, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, has an educational tradition spanning over 100 years.Under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, and strongly supported by both the Ministry and Guangdong Province, Sun Yat-sen University has developed into a modern comprehensive university that enjoys a reputation as a top-tier university nationally and a renowned university internationally. With five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen, and ten affiliated hospitals, the University is striving to become a world-class university and global center of learning.

Built on a solid multidisciplinary foundation of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, and engineering, Sun Yat-sen University is propelled forward by the continuous pursuit of academic innovation. The University is equipped with a globally aware outlook, and has dedicated itself to being an institution that is comprehensive, research-oriented, and open. The University adheres to the socialist orientation of higher education, focusing on the fundamental task of nurturing virtue and talents. The basic guiding philosophy is to target the global science frontiers, serve the main economic battlefield, strive to fulfill significant needs of the country and benefit people's lives and health. The coordinated development of five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen will jointly support the development of the entire University. The University is pushing forward the transformation from external development to internal development, the transformation from routine development to active development, and the transformation from a university with discrete advantages in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and medical sciences to a university where humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, engineering, agriculture and arts can achieve comprehensive development. Now, standing at a new starting point, Sun Yat-sen University strives to join the national first-tier universities and build a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.

Introduction to Lingnan College Sun Yat-sen University

Sun Yat-sen University, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, has an educational tradition spanning over 100 years. Under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and strongly supported by both the Ministry and Guangdong Province, Sun Yat-sen University has developed into a modern comprehensive university that enjoys a reputation as a top-tier university nationally and a renowned university internationally. With five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen, and ten affiliated hospitals, the University is striving to become a world-class university and global center of learning.

Founded with the approval of the State Education Commission of the People's Republic of China in 1987, Lingnan College is an important college of humanities and social sciences of Sun Yat-sen University. Focusing on the development of economics discipline, it has the best sources of students and outstanding teachers, and strives to form a synergy of general education and professional education and to lead the development of economics education in China.
Taking root in China and based on the great practice of China's economic development, the college is committed to building China's economic knowledge system and continuously promoting economic theoretical innovation. Centering on Xi Jinping's Economic Thought and Theoretical Innovation of Economy with Chinese Characteristics, the college gives priority to the development of such directions as Socialist Political Economics with Chinese Characteristics, Finance and Risk Management, Theory of Open Economy, Green Economy and Sustainable Development, as well as Digital Economy and Data Science, actively serves the needs of major national strategies, as well as those of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for social and economic development, and cultivates innovative economics talents with humanistic spirit and global vision for China and even the world.

Centering on the development of students, the college works to improve students' capabilities of learning, thinking and acting, so as to provide diversified training paths and independent learning space for students' all-round growth. The college's two courses, Economics and Finance, were selected as the sites for the development of first-class undergraduate courses at national level in the Double Ten Thousand Plan (10,000 first-class undergraduate courses at national level and 10,000 courses at provincial level), and its Top-notch Economics Student Training Base was selected as one of the Bases for the Top-notch Basic Discipline Student Training Program 2.0. of the Ministry of Education in 2021. In ShanghaiRanking's Best Chinese Majors Ranking 2022, both Economics and Finance of the college were rated as A. In Times Higher Education's China Subjects Rating 2022, both Theoretical Economics and Applied Economics of the college were rated as A. The college is committed to telling China's stories well and enhancing the international influence of China's higher education. It has established long-term exchanges and cooperation with more than 50 universities around the world, including MIT, Yale University, Oxford University and the University of Minnesota. The alumni of Lingnan College are active in various fields in China and the world, contributing to the social and economic development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and even the whole country.