South China University of Technology

South China University of Technology, abbreviated SCUT, is a public research university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, affiliated with the Ministry of Education and co-sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government.华南理工大学（简称华工）是位于中国广东省广州市的一所公立研究型大学，直属教育部，并与广东省人民政府共建。

It is one of the leading universities of the People's Republic of China, a member of Project 211, Project 985 and the Double First-Class Construction, and it holds 342nd place in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.该校是中国顶尖高校之一，位列「211 工程」「985 工程」与「双一流」建设名单，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中居于第 342 位。

It is 265th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 162nd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, and in the 101-150 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 265，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 162，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 101 至 150 区间。

History

• The history of South China University of Technology reaches back to the Guangdong Arts Bureau established by the late Qing government in August 1910, whose attached industrial school became the Guangdong Provincial First Class-A Industrial School in August 1918 and formed the first ancestor of the university.华南理工大学的历史可追溯至晚清政府于 1910 年 8 月设置的广东工艺局，其附设工业学校于 1918 年 8 月改为广东省立第一甲种工业学校，构成该校最早的源头。

• In July 1924 that school became the Provincial Industrial College and in 1930 a specialised college, by which time it had produced nearly two hundred graduates.1924 年 7 月该校改办为省立工业专门学校，1930 年再改为专科学校，此时已累计培养毕业生近两百人。

• In July 1933 the college was expanded into the provincial Rangqin College of Engineering, and in July 1934 the Guangdong Provincial Rangqin University was founded with that college as its engineering faculty of mechanical, chemical, civil and architectural engineering.1933 年 7 月该校扩设为省立勷勤工学院，1934 年 7 月广东省立勷勤大学正式成立，以该学院为其工学院，下设机械、化学、土木与建筑四系。

• It was then the only university in China apart from National Central University with an architecture department, headed by Lin Keming, while Luo Mingyu led civil engineering, and after the university was dissolved in 1938 the faculty was merged into National Sun Yat-sen University.当时该校除国立中央大学外是中国唯一设有建筑系的学校，建筑系主任为林克明，土木系主任为罗明燏，1938 年勷勤大学解散后其工学院并入国立中山大学。

• National Sun Yat-sen University, founded as National Guangdong University by Sun Yat-sen in 1924 and renamed in 1926, expanded its science faculty into a polytechnic college in 1931 and added mechanical and electrical engineering departments in 1933.国立中山大学由孙中山于 1924 年创办为国立广东大学，1926 年更名，1931 年将理学院扩设为理工学院，1933 年又增设机械系与电工系。

• Its College of Engineering was established in August 1934 at the Wenming Road campus under the first dean Xiao Guanying and moved the next month to the new Shipai campus, and by 1937 it had 37 professors averaging about 33 years of age and 442 students, 7.7 per cent of all engineering students in Chinese higher education.其工学院于 1934 年 8 月在文明路校址建立，首任院长为萧冠英，次月率先迁入石牌新校园，至 1937 年共有教授 37 名、平均年龄约 33 岁、学生 442 人，占当时全国专科以上学校工科在校生的 7.7%。

• Lingnan University, descended from the Christian College founded in 1888, opened a civil engineering college jointly with the Ministry of Railways in July 1930 on the initiative of Sun Fo, whose building Zhesheng Hall was designed by the American architect Henry Murphy and completed in 1931.岭南大学前身为 1888 年创立的格致书院，1929 年在孙科支持下与铁道部合作，于 1930 年 7 月正式开办专办土木工程的工学院，其院舍哲生堂由美国建筑师亨利·墨菲设计并于 1931 年落成。

• That college added electrical engineering in 1948 and produced 102 graduates, while the private Guangdong Minzhong University, founded by Chen Qiyuan in 1925, added an engineering college in 1930 that graduated 427 students by 1950.该工学院于 1948 年增设电机工程系，共培养毕业生 102 人，而陈其瑗于 1925 年创办的私立广东国民大学于 1930 年增设工学院，至 1950 年共毕业 427 人。

• The private Guangzhou University, founded by Chen Bingquan in 1927, expanded its science faculty into a polytechnic college in 1940, and in 1950 Minzhong and Guangzhou universities merged with two others into South China Joint University, whose polytechnic college was the strongest of its three faculties.陈炳权于 1927 年创办的私立广州大学于 1940 年将理学院扩充为理工学院，1950 年国民大学与广州大学又同另两所学校合并为华南联合大学，其理工学院在三个学院中实力最强。

• On 30 November 1951 the Government Administration Council approved the national plan for adjusting engineering colleges, which called for merging the engineering college of Sun Yat-sen University, the polytechnic college of South China Joint University, the engineering departments of Lingnan University and the Guangdong Industrial College into one independent engineering college.1951 年 11 月 30 日中央人民政府政务院批准了全国工学院调整方案，其中提出将中山大学工学院、华南联合大学理工学院、岭南大学工科系科与广东工业专科学校合并成立独立的工学院。

• In November 1952 the South China Institute of Technology was formally created on the former Shipai campus of Sun Yat-sen University, absorbing engineering departments from Hunan University, Guangxi University, Nanchang University, Wuhan Transportation University and Wuchang Zhonghua University.1952 年 11 月华南工学院在原中山大学石牌校园正式组建，并吸纳了湖南大学、广西大学、南昌大学、武汉交通学院与武昌中华大学中与工科相关的专业。

• It was one of the four great engineering colleges of China, and the first opening ceremony was held on 17 November 1952, a date later fixed as the university's anniversary day.该校是当时中国四大工学院之一，1952 年 11 月 17 日举行第一次开学典礼，这一天后来被定为校庆日。

• The new institute opened with six departments of mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil, architectural and hydraulic engineering, 15 specialities and 14 short courses, with light industry as its base and chemical engineering as its strength.新建学院初期设机械工程、电机工程、化工工程、土木工程、建筑工程与水利工程六个系，共 15 个专业与 14 个专修科，以轻工为主、化工见长。

• It began enrolling master's students in 1956 and correspondence students in 1957, and in 1958 it was divided so that a separate South China Chemical Engineering Institute was created, both institutions being designated National Key Universities in 1960.学院于 1956 年开始招收硕士研究生，1957 年开始招收函授生，1958 年又分出化工系与造纸系成立华南化工学院，两校于 1960 年均被评为全国重点大学。

• The Sixty Articles on Higher Education adopted in 1961 took the quality of teaching upward, the university began to receive students from Mongolia and North Vietnam in that year, and in August 1962 South China and South China Chemical Engineering institutes merged again.1961 年高教六十条的实施使教学质量回升，同年该校开始接收蒙古与北越等国留学生，1962 年 8 月华南工学院与华南化工学院重新合并。

• The Cultural Revolution brought teaching and research almost to a halt from June 1966, in August 1967 a fire during factional fighting in the library injured several people and destroyed thousands of books, and in its early years some 300 people were searched and more than 380 criticised, with 14 staff members dying.1966 年 6 月文化大革命爆发后教学科研几乎全部停止，1967 年 8 月两派在图书馆大楼武斗时纵火，致多人受伤、数千册图书被毁，早期全校约 300 人被查抄、380 余人被批斗审查，14 名教工死亡。

• In October 1970 the provincial revolutionary committee renamed the university Guangdong Institute of Technology, in October 1977 the name South China Institute of Technology was restored, and in July 1978 the institution was again recognised as a key university and re-merged with the Guangdong Chemical Engineering Institute.1970 年 10 月省革委会将学校更名为广东工学院，1977 年 10 月恢复华南工学院校名，1978 年学校重新被认定为重点大学并与广东化工学院再度合并。

• In November 1981 it became one of the first 56 institutions in China authorised to confer doctoral and master's degrees, and it enrolled its first doctoral students in the following year.1981 年 11 月该校成为中国首批 56 所具有博士和硕士学位授予权的单位之一，并于次年开始招收博士研究生。

• In the early 1980s the mathematics, physics and mechanics programmes suspended during the Cultural Revolution were restored and departments of management, social sciences and foreign languages opened, turning a single-discipline engineering college into a comprehensive university.80 年代初，文革期间停办的数学、物理与力学三个理科专业相继复办，管理系、社会科学系与外语系陆续开办，学校由单一工科学院转向综合大学。

• On 28 January 1988 the State Education Commission approved the renaming of the South China Institute of Technology as the South China University of Technology.1988 年 1 月 28 日经国家教委批准，华南工学院更名为华南理工大学。

• On 1 April 1992 the university opened an actors' training class together with Hong Kong TVB, and in 1993 it signed a co-construction agreement with the State Education Commission and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, becoming the first university in China built jointly by a ministry and a province.1992 年 4 月 1 日该校与香港无线电视合作开办内地艺员训练班，1993 年又与国教委和广东省人民政府签署共建协议，成为中国首个实现部省共建的高校。

• In 1994 it founded a power college on a board basis with the Guangdong Electric Power Bureau, the first school in China jointly run by a university and a local government enterprise, and the Guangdong Electric Power College merged wholly into the university in the same year.1994 年该校与广东省电力工业局以董事会方式合办电力学院，创立了中国首个由高校与地方政府企业联合共建的办学模式，同年广东电力专科学校整体并入。

• It passed the pre-assessment of Project 211 in 1995, was rated an excellent university of undergraduate education in 1999, was among the first universities sponsored by Project 985 in 2001, and began counterpart support for Guangxi University in 2001 and Guizhou Minzu University in 2006.该校 1995 年通过「211 工程」预审，1999 年被评为本科教学优秀学校，2001 年进入首批「985 工程」行列，并于 2001 年起对口支援广西大学、2006 年起对口支援贵州民族大学。

• The University Town campus on the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre opened in August 2004, the university joined Tongji University, Beijing Institute of Technology and five others in an alliance for outstanding talent cultivation in November 2010, and between December 2011 and May 2017 it established three Confucius Institutes in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany.广州大学城的大学城校区于 2004 年 8 月启用，2010 年 11 月该校与同济大学、北京理工大学等七所高校成立卓越人才培养合作高校联盟，2011 年 12 月至 2017 年 5 月又在英国、美国与德国建立三所孔子学院。

• In September 2014 the university announced the creation of a medical school with the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, and in March 2017 it signed the agreement to build the Guangzhou International Campus with the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City.2014 年 9 月该校与广东省人民医院宣布共同组建医学院，2017 年 3 月又与教育部、广东省、广州市签署共建广州国际校区协议。

• In June 2017 it was approved as a national demonstration base for mass entrepreneurship and innovation, the only Guangdong university so designated, and in September 2017 it was listed among the Class A Double First-Class universities.2017 年 6 月该校被批准为国家级大众创业万众创新示范基地，是唯一入选的广东高校，并于 2017 年 9 月入选「双一流」建设 A 类高校名单。

• The Guangzhou International Campus opened in September 2019, and on 2 February 2021 Guangzhou College was separated from the university and converted into the private Guangzhou City Institute of Technology.广州国际校区于 2019 年 9 月正式启用，2021 年 2 月 2 日广州学院脱离该校管理并转设为民办的广州城市理工学院。

Academics

• The university is organised into 35 secondary schools and departments whose disciplines cover engineering, science, management, humanities, economics, law, arts, agriculture, medicine and education, with engineering by far its strongest field.该校设有 35 个二级院系，学科涵盖工、理、管、文、经、法、艺、农、医、教，其中工科最为见长。

• As of September 2021 it employed 3,272 full-time teachers, 764 externally appointed teachers and 888 teachers of the affiliated hospitals, giving an equivalent student-teacher ratio of 18.07.截至 2021 年 9 月，该校有专任教师 3,272 人、外聘教师 764 人、附属医院教师 888 人，折合生师比为 18.07。

• Its faculty includes three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, five of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one foreign national academy member and eight jointly appointed academicians, as well as 33 Changjiang Scholars and 40 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.其师资队伍中有中国科学院院士 3 人、中国工程院院士 5 人、外国国家工程院院士 1 人与双聘院士 8 人，还有长江学者 33 人与国家杰出青年科学基金获得者 40 人。

• It was named an advanced unit on the national culture and education front in 1960, was among the first excellent universities of undergraduate education in 1999, and counts five national teaching masters and six national teaching teams.该校 1960 年获评全国文教战线先进单位，1999 年成为全国首批本科教学优秀学校，并有国家级教学名师 5 人与国家级教学团队 6 个。

• Course provision includes 27 national excellent and demonstration courses, 14 national video open courses, four national online open courses and 34 Guangdong online open courses.在课程建设上，该校有各类国家级精品与示范课程 27 门、国家级精品视频公开课程 14 门、国家精品在线开放课程 4 门与广东省在线开放课程 34 门。

• A general-education reform began in 1992 under president Liu Huanbin with the principle of valuing character, a solid foundation, strong ability and wide knowledge, and in 2004 the university set the goal of cultivating innovative, creative and entrepreneurial talents.该校自 1992 年起推动综合素质教育改革，时任校长刘焕彬提出「重人品、厚基础、强能力、宽知识」的方针，2004 年又提出培养创新、创造、创业的「三创型」人才目标。

• The undergraduate research training plan launched in 1999 has brought more than 60 per cent of undergraduates and 90 per cent of postgraduates into extracurricular research projects.1999 年开始实施的本科生参与科研实践训练计划，使全校超过 60% 的本科生与 90% 的研究生在读期间参与过课外科技项目训练。

• Joint training agreements with CGN, BGI and China Southern Airlines were followed from 2007 by innovation classes and international joint training pilots, so that by June 2020 there were 30 such classes covering about 17 per cent of students.该校与中广核、华大基因、南方航空等企业签署联合培养协议，2007 年起又组建各类创新班与国际化联合培养试点班，至 2020 年 6 月已有 30 个教改班、覆盖约 17% 的学生。

• As of September 2021 it counted 28 national research platforms and 208 ministerial and provincial platforms, including three State Key Laboratories and three national engineering research centres, the highest total in Guangdong.截至 2021 年 9 月，该校建有 28 个国家级科研平台与 208 个部省级科研平台，其中包括 3 个国家重点实验室与 3 个国家工程研究中心，总数居广东高校首位。

• The university runs four directly affiliated hospitals, namely the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou First People's Hospital, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital at Nanhai in Foshan and the Tianhe Hospital under construction.该校拥有附属广东省人民医院、附属第二医院（广州市第一人民医院）、附属第六医院（佛山市南海区人民医院）与在建的附属天河医院共 4 所直属附属医院。

• Its science and technology funding reached 2.592 billion yuan in 2017, 14th in the country with 953,900 yuan per capita, and the project on molecular aggregation luminescence received 200 million yuan over five years, the largest grant ever made by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.2017 年该校科技经费为 25.92 亿元人民币，居全国第 14 位、人均 95.39 万元，其牵头的分子聚集发光项目获国家自然科学基金委 5 年 2 亿元资助，是基金委迄今资助力度最大的项目。

• Already in the 1950s and 1960s the university developed China's first analogue electronic computer, its first Russian-Chinese automatic translation machine and its first voice-controlled printer.早在 1950 至 60 年代，该校便成功研制中国第一台模拟电子计算机、第一台俄汉自动翻译机与第一台声控打印机。

• More recently it produced China's first colour flexible AMOLED display, its first domestically built high-speed paper machine and the world's first ordered macro-microporous MOF single crystal.近年来该校又研制出中国首块彩色柔性 AMOLED 显示屏、首个国产高速造纸机与世界首个有序大孔-微孔 MOF 单晶材料。

• In 2020 it became the first institution in Guangdong to lead a project winning a first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and since 2013 it has filed more than 20,000 patent applications and more than 500 PCT applications.2020 年该校成为首个牵头获得国家科学技术进步奖一等奖的广东省内高校，而自 2013 年以来其申请专利两万余件、申请 PCT 超过 500 件。

• In 2018 its invention patent publications ranked second and its invention patent grants fourth among mainland universities, with 170 PCT filings placing it fourth among educational institutions worldwide, and by 2020 it had won 40 China Patent Awards, second only to Tsinghua University.2018 年其发明专利申请公开量居中国大陆高校第 2、发明专利授权量居第 4，申请 PCT 达 170 件、位列全球教育机构第 4，至 2020 年获中国专利奖共 40 件，仅次于清华大学。

• Technology transfer grew out of the Saturday engineers who from the 1980s spent their weekends solving technical problems in local firms, and in 2019 the university was designated one of the first bases for the commercialisation and transfer of scientific results.该校的技术转移肇始于上世纪 80 年代利用周末赴企业解决技术问题的星期六工程师，2019 年该校被教育部认定为首批高等学校科技成果转化和技术转移基地。

Campus

• The university has three campuses, the Wushan, University Town and Guangzhou International campuses, all within the city of Guangzhou in a layout described as one city with three campuses.该校现有五山、大学城与广州国际三个校区，均位于广东省广州市，形成一城三校区的格局。

• The Wushan campus, also called the north campus, lies in the Shipai university district of Tianhe and is the main and earliest campus, opened in 1934 and covering 199.8 hectares.五山校区又称北校区，位于天河区石牌高校区，是主校区与最早的校区，1934 年启用，占地 199.8 公顷。

• The Wushan campus and the South China Agricultural University occupy the site of the former Shipai campus of National Sun Yat-sen University, designed by Yang Xizong, Lin Keming and Yu Qingjiang, and built in three phases within a planned six years.五山校区与华南农业大学同为原国立中山大学石牌校区所在地，由杨锡宗、林克明与余清江设计，分三期建设、计划六年完成。

• That plan placed teaching and research around the central axis with a symmetrical composition, the observatory and the research institute on the south-eastern and north-eastern heights, student housing along the lake and the experimental farm and forest on either side of the centre.该规划将教学科研区集中于中轴线附近并强调中轴对称，天文台与研究院分处校园东南与东北高地，学生生活区沿湖布置，实验农场与林场分布校园中心区东西两侧。

• After the 1952 reorganisation Sun Yat-sen University moved to Kangle Garden and the old main gate with more than 5,000 mu of developed campus went to the engineering college, while the agricultural college, farm, forest, research institute and observatory went to the agricultural college that became South China Agricultural University.1952 年院系调整后中山大学迁往康乐园，其石牌校园的正门及五千余亩已开发校园划予华南工学院，而农学院、农场、林场、研究院与天文台则划归后来的华南农业大学。

• Buildings of the 1950s and 1960s followed a unified and economical style, notably the summer-style sunshade structures designed by Xia Changshi, and in 2002 the old Sun Yat-sen buildings were listed as protected cultural relics of Guangzhou with some 1950s buildings listed as historic buildings in 2014.1950 至 60 年代新建建筑风格统一、崇尚经济实用，其中夏昌世设计、带有夏式遮阳结构的系列建筑颇具代表性，2002 年原中大时期建筑被列入广州市文物保护单位，2014 年部分五六十年代建筑又被列入广州市历史建筑名单。

• The University Town campus, also called the south campus, lies in the south-east of the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre in Panyu, opened in August 2004 and covering 97.63 hectares, and it was designed by the team of He Jingtang.大学城校区又称南校区，位于番禺区广州大学城东南部，2004 年 8 月启用，占地 97.63 公顷，由何镜堂团队主持设计。

• Its teaching area uses an asymmetric axis that converges at the central square in front of the library, and its stadium and gymnasium hosted major events together with the other university-town sports facilities, including the 2007 National University Games and the 2010 Asian Games.其教学区采用在图书馆前中心广场汇合的转折轴线，校区体育场与体育馆曾与其他大学城体育设施一同举办 2007 年第八届全国大学生运动会与 2010 年亚洲运动会等大型赛事。

• The Guangzhou International Campus in Nancun, Panyu, covers 110.59 hectares, began construction in May 2018 and was fully delivered in 2023, designed by Ni Yang with a block layout and more than 30 per cent of first-phase floor area in prefabricated construction.番禺区南村镇的广州国际校区占地 110.59 公顷，2018 年 5 月启动建设、2023 年全面交付使用，由倪阳主持设计，采用街区式布局，一期工程超过 30% 的建筑面积为装配式建筑。

• That campus is mainland China's first university campus built jointly by a university, a central ministry, a provincial government and a municipal government, and applies residential colleges and in-place internationalisation, housing schools such as biomedical science and engineering, the Wu Xianming School of Intelligent Engineering, frontier soft matter, microelectronics, future technology, ocean science and engineering and integrated circuits.该校区是中国大陆首个由学校、中央部委、省级政府与市级政府四方共建的大学校区，实行本科生书院制与在地国际化办学机制，设有生物医学科学与工程学院、吴贤铭智能工程学院、前沿软物质学院、微电子学院、未来技术学院、海洋科学与工程学院与集成电路学院等。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the South China University of Technology is placed 342nd in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，华南理工大学位列世界第 342 位。

• It stands 265th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 162nd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking and in the 101-150 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 265，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 162，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 101 至 150 区间。

• In the 2013 Leiden Ranking, which measures the proportion of a university's publications among the top ten per cent in their field, SCUT was 138th in the world, 11th in Asia and 5th in China excluding Hong Kong.在按各校论文进入本领域前 10% 比例排名的 2013 年莱顿排行榜中，华南理工大学位居世界第 138、亚洲第 11，在中国大陆高校中位列第 5。

• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the university rose from 448th in 2015 to 394th in 2017 and 219th in 2023, while QS placed it 392nd in 2023.在 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校由 2015 年的第 448 位升至 2017 年的第 394 位与 2023 年的第 219 位，而 QS 在 2023 年将其列在第 392 位。

• Ten of its disciplines enter the Essential Science Indicators global top one per cent, and engineering, materials science, chemistry and agricultural science are in the top one per thousand, sixth among Chinese universities and first in South China.该校有十个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前 1%，其中工程学、材料科学、化学与农业科学进入前 1‰，入选数量居中国高校并列第六、华南地区首位。

• The university is counted among the eight old schools of Chinese architecture because of the architecture discipline established in the 1930s, and in 2017 chemistry, materials science and engineering, light industry technology and engineering and agriculture entered the Double First-Class discipline list.因 1930 年代建立的建筑学科，该校被认定为中国建筑学界「建筑老八校」之一，2017 年其化学、材料科学与工程、轻工技术与工程与农学四个学科入选「双一流」学科建设名单。

• In the fourth national discipline evaluation published in December 2017 it had 33 first-level disciplines assessed, with light industry technology and engineering rated A plus in the top two per cent and seven disciplines rated A minus in the top five to ten per cent.在 2017 年 12 月公布的全国第四轮学科评估中，该校共有 33 个一级学科入选，其中轻工技术与工程获评为前 2% 的 A+，另有七个学科获评为前 5% 至 10% 的 A-。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 152,484 research works drawing 11,729,202 citations, and it is popularly known as the cradle of engineers and the cradle of South China entrepreneurs.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 152,484 项研究成果、累计被引用 11,729,202 次，它也被誉为工程师的摇篮与华南企业家的摇篮。

Student life

• The current emblem, adopted on 6 July 2006, consists of two concentric circles dominated by blue, with the kapok, the city flower of Guangzhou, above and the archway of the former Sun Yat-sen University south gate below inside the inner circle.现行校徽于 2006 年 7 月 6 日启用，由两个同心圆组成并以蓝色为主基调，内圆上方为广州市市花木棉花、下方为原中大南门牌坊。

• The figure 1934 between the circles marked the opening of the earliest Wushan campus and was changed on 16 November 2022 to 1918, the year the Guangdong Provincial First Class-A Industrial School was founded, while an earlier hexagonal emblem was designed by the architecture teacher Wang Jiaqiang.内外圆之间的 1934 表明最早的五山校区于 1934 年启用，2022 年 11 月 16 日又将其变更为广东省立第一甲种工业学校的成立年份 1918，而更早的一版正六边形校徽由建筑系教师王加强设计。

• For decades the university had no formally written motto, and the 1961 party congress set a style, the anti-Japanese academy motto of unity, alertness, seriousness and liveliness served from the Cultural Revolution to 1982, and the 1987 congress adopted unity, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation.该校早期并未以明文规定形式确定校训，1961 年校党员大会提出校风，文革时期至 1982 年以延安抗大校训团结、紧张、严肃、活泼为校风，1987 年校党代会又提出团结、勤奋、求实、创新。

• The present motto, learn broadly, think carefully, discern clearly and practise earnestly, was adopted on 6 July 2006 from the Doctrine of the Mean in the Book of Rites, and in November 2012 the university added the spiritual statement of great virtue, respect for learning, practical innovation, unceasing self-improvement and the pursuit of excellence.现行校训博学慎思、明辨笃行于 2006 年 7 月 6 日启用，取自《礼记·中庸》，2012 年 11 月该校又将厚德尚学、务实创新、自强不息、追求卓越定为精神表述语。

• Five competitions for an anthem in 1956, 1979, 1998, 2005 and 2007 all failed, and in February 2011 the university published the Song of South China University of Technology, the first official anthem in nearly sixty years, with collective lyrics and music by Liang Jun of the art school.该校曾在 1956 年、1979 年、1998 年、2005 年与 2007 年五次开展校歌征集而未成，2011 年 2 月公布集体作词、艺术学院梁军作曲的华南理工大学之歌，成为组建近六十年来正式公布的第一首校歌。

• Student societies grew from 13 societies and 14 university sports teams founded from 1983 to 126 societies in academic, cultural and social-service categories with more than 10,000 members by August 2020.从 1983 年起陆续成立的 13 个学生社团与 14 个校级运动代表队，发展到 2020 年 8 月该校拥有学术、文体、社会服务三大类的 126 个学生社团、成员一万余名。

• The Fresh environmental association and the roller-skating association were rated among the national top-100 student societies, and events such as the Century Kapok academic lecture series and the campus singing contest enjoy a following inside and beyond the university.该校的 Fresh 环保协会与轮滑协会曾分别获评全国百佳学生社团与全国百佳体育公益社团，世纪木棉学术系列讲座与华音初上校园歌手大赛等活动在校内外亦有一定知名度。

• In its first years each class formed cultural and sports groups, an outstanding athlete training class began in 1959, art troupes appeared after 1962 and work-study programmes were organised from 1983.建校初期各班内即建立各种文体活动小组，1959 年开始组建优秀运动员集训班，1962 年后成立各类文工团，1983 年起学校又组织勤工俭学活动。

Notable people

• The university's founding figures include Chen Qiyuan, who created the private Guangdong Minzhong University in 1925, Chen Bingquan, who founded the private Guangzhou University in 1927, and Xiao Guanying, Lin Keming and Luo Mingyu, the first dean and the heads of architecture and civil engineering of the 1930s.该校的奠基人物包括 1925 年创办私立广东国民大学的陈其瑗、1927 年创办私立广州大学的陈炳权，以及 1930 年代首任院长萧冠英与建筑系主任林克明、土木系主任罗明燏。

• He Jingtang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the School of Architecture, was the principal designer of the China Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and of the team that designed the University Town campus.中国工程院院士、建筑学院院长何镜堂是 2010 年上海世博会中国馆的主要设计者，并主持了大学城校区的设计。

• Ben Zhong Tang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences known for the discovery of aggregation-induced emission, works at the university, whose academicians also include Mo Bozhi, Rong Baisheng, Jiang Zhonghong, Dang Hongxin, Zhang Youqi and Meng Zhizhong.以聚集诱导发光发现闻名的中国科学院院士唐本忠在该校工作，该校院士还包括莫伯治、容柏生、姜中宏、党鸿辛、张佑启与孟执中。

• Cheng Siwei, who studied at the institution and later became Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress, is counted among its most prominent alumni.曾在该校前身就读、后任全国人大常委会副委员长的成思危被列为该校最知名的校友之一。

• Public figures among its graduates include Li Zhuobin, vice chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party and chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Xu Ruisheng, vice governor of Guangdong, and Wei Gang, former head of the equipment department of the Chinese Air Force.其毕业生中的公众人物包括致公党中央副主席、中国侨联主席李卓彬，广东省副省长许瑞生，以及空军总装备部原部长魏钢。

• Li Dongsheng, chairman of TCL Corporation, and Huang Hongsheng, founder of Skyworth, are alumni known for building two of China's largest consumer-electronics groups.TCL 集团董事长李东生与创维创始人黄宏生是该校校友，两人缔造了中国最大的两家消费电子集团。

• Zhang Zhidong, co-founder and former chief technology officer of Tencent, and He Xiaopeng, co-founder of the UCWeb browser and founder of the XPeng electric-car company, both graduated from the university.腾讯联合创始人、前首席技术官张志东与 UCWeb 联合创始人、小鹏汽车创始人何小鹏都毕业于该校。

• Yao Zhenhua, founder of the Baoneng Group, and Mai Bonian, president of China International Marine Containers, are further business alumni of the university.宝能集团创始人姚振华与中国国际海运集装箱股份有限公司总裁麦伯良也是该校的商界校友。

• Chen Ding, a student of the university, won the gold medal in the 20-kilometre walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.该校学生陈定在 2012 年伦敦夏季奥运会男子 20 公里竞走中夺得金牌。

• Among its architects and scientists are Rong Baisheng, architect and civil engineer, Thomas Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, and Ni Yang, who designed the Guangzhou International Campus.其建筑师与科学家中包括建筑师与土木工程师容柏生、加州理工学院应用与计算数学 Charles Lee Powell 讲席教授侯一钊，以及广州国际校区设计者倪阳。