Sun Yat-sen University

Sun Yat-sen University, known in Chinese as 中山大学 and often abbreviated SYSU, is a public comprehensive research university with its main campus in Haizhu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, and it is a separate institution from the National Sun Yat-sen University that was later founded in Taiwan中山大学（英文缩写 SYSU）是一所以广东省广州市海珠区南校园为主校区的公立综合性研究型大学，与后来在中国台湾创办的国立中山大学是两所不同的学校。

The university is administered by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and co-funded by that ministry together with the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, and it belongs to Project 211, Project 985 and the Double First-Class Construction学校由中华人民共和国教育部主管，并由教育部、国家国防科技工业局与广东省人民政府共建，同时是国家「211 工程」「985 工程」与「双一流」建设高校。

The university was founded in 1924 by the revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, carried 67,509 students and 4,351 academic staff on the books used by U.S. News for the 2026-2027 edition of its global rankings, and was placed in a tie for 258th place in the 2027 QS World University Rankings学校由革命家孙中山于 1924 年创办，在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度世界大学排名所采用的数据中拥有 67,509 名学生与 4,351 名学术人员，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列并列第 258 名。

History

• The earliest medical predecessor of the university is the Pok Tsai Medical School, founded in 1866 and regarded as the first institution in China to teach Western medicine, where Sun Yat-sen himself studied and carried out revolutionary work学校最早的医学前身是 1866 年创办的博济医学校，它是中国最早传授西方医学的教育机构，孙中山曾在此求学和从事革命活动。
• An even earlier root is the Ophthalmic Hospital opened in Canton in 1835 by the American medical missionary Peter Parker, which later became the Canton Hospital and is today the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital更久远的一条源头是 1835 年由美国医学传教士伯驾在广州开办的眼科医局，该机构后来成为广州博济医院，今天则是中山大学孙逸仙纪念医院。
• Lingnan University began in 1888 as the Canton Christian College, established in Guangzhou by the American medical missionary Andrew Happer together with a group of missionaries from the United States岭南大学始于 1888 年创办的格致书院，由美国医学传教士哈巴安德与一批美国传教士在广州共同创办。
• The Hackett Medical College for Women, dedicated in 1902 and founded by the Presbyterian medical missionary Mary H. Fulton, was the first medical college for women in China and was linked to Lingnan University from 19361902 年落成、由长老会女医疗传教士富马利创办的夏葛女子医学院是中国第一所女子医学院，自 1936 年起与岭南大学建立隶属关系。
• The Kung Yee Medical School and Hospital was founded in Guangzhou in 1908, and in 1925 its institutions were taken over by the government and became the medical department of the National First Sun Yat-sen University1908 年，公医医学校及其附属医院在广州创办；1925 年，这些机构被政府接管，成为国立第一中山大学的医科。
• The hospital that is now the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University was established in 1910 as the Affiliated Hospital of the Guangdong Public Institution of Medicine今天的中山大学附属第一医院始建于 1910 年，最初名为广东公医学堂附属医院。
• National Kwangtung University was founded in Canton in 1924 by Sun Yat-sen, who wrote the school motto in his own hand, calling students to study extensively, enquire accurately, reflect carefully, discriminate clearly and practise earnestly1924 年，孙中山在广州创办国立广东大学，并亲笔题写校训「博学、审问、慎思、明辨、笃行」。
• On 17 July 1926, after the death of Sun Yat-sen, the Nationalist government formally decreed that the university be renamed National Sun Yat-sen University in his memory1926 年 7 月 17 日，在孙中山逝世之后，国民政府正式下令将学校更名为国立中山大学，以志纪念。
• In 1926 four institutions carried the name National Sun Yat-sen University, the Canton original alongside a second in Wuhan that became Wuhan University, a third in Hangzhou that became Zhejiang University and a fourth in Nanking that preceded Nanjing University, Southeast University and National Central University1926 年共有四所院校使用国立中山大学之名：广州的本体，以及后来成为武汉大学、浙江大学与南京大学（其前身为国立第四中山大学，并衍生出东南大学与国立中央大学）的武汉、杭州与南京三校。
• A fifth National Sun Yat-sen University planned for Zhengzhou was instead established as the Henan Provincial Sun Yat-sen University, which is today Henan University原计划在郑州筹设的国立第五中山大学最终改设为河南省立中山大学，即今天的河南大学。
• By the 1930s the university was organised into seven schools covering arts, sciences, law, engineering, agricultural studies, medicine and education到二十世纪三十年代，学校已设有文、理、法、工、农、医、教育七个学院。
• National Sun Yat-sen University established, in 1935 and jointly with National Tsinghua University and National Peking University, the first graduate schools in China and began enrolling postgraduate students1935 年，国立中山大学与国立清华大学、国立北京大学一道创办了中国最早的研究院，开始招收研究生。
• The Pok Tsai Medical School became the College of Medicine of Lingnan University in 1936, the same year the Hackett medical centre was affiliated to form the Sun Yat-sen Medical College1936 年，博济医学校改组为岭南大学医学院，夏葛女子医学院及其附属医院同年并入，共同组成中山大学医学院。
• In 1949 the university dropped the prefix National and has since been called simply Sun Yat-sen University, and the nationwide restructuring of colleges and departments in the 1950s left it a comprehensive university built on the liberal arts and sciences1949 年，学校去掉「国立」二字，此后径称中山大学；二十世纪五十年代的全国院系调整使它成为以文理为基础学科的综合性大学。
• Lingnan University was incorporated into Sun Yat-sen University in 1953, and in the same year the medical colleges of the two institutions merged to form the College of Medicine of South China, which the Guangdong Guanghua College of Medicine joined in 19541953 年，岭南大学并入中山大学；同年两校的医学院合并组建华南医学院，1954 年广东光华医学院并入该院。
• The medical arm was renamed in turn Guangzhou College of Medicine and Sun Yat-sen College of Medical Science, and in 1985 took the name Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Science as a comprehensive medical university医科一脉先后更名为广州医学院、中山医学院，并于 1985 年定名为中山医科大学，成为一所多层次的综合性医科大学。
• Lingnan College was reestablished inside Sun Yat-sen University in 1988 and has since become one of the strongest economics and management schools in China, holding triple accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA since 20151988 年，中山大学复办岭南学院，该院此后成为中国实力最强的经济与管理学院之一，并自 2015 年起同时持有 AACSB、EQUIS 与 AMBA 三项国际认证。
• The medical university merged back into Sun Yat-sen University in 2001 as the Sun Yat-sen College of Medical Science, the most recent of the mergers that have shaped the institution2001 年，中山医科大学并入中山大学，成为中山大学中山医学院，这是塑造今日学校格局的最近一次合并。
• The Guangzhou East Campus in Panyu received its first cohort of students in September 2004, when the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center opened as a provincial project to expand science and education capacity2004 年 9 月，位于番禺的广州校区东校园迎来首批学生，广州大学城作为广东省扩容科教资源的重点工程同期启用。
• In June 2005 Harvard College Library donated 158,000 volumes from the Hilles Library to Sun Yat-sen University, a humanities and social sciences collection built up over a century2005 年 6 月，哈佛学院图书馆将其希尔斯图书馆的 15.8 万册藏书捐赠给中山大学，这批以人文社科为主的外文藏书历时一个世纪积累而成。
• The Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center was approved as the State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology in 2006, still the only state key laboratory in that field in China2006 年，中山大学中山眼科中心获批建设眼科学国家重点实验室，至今仍是中国该领域唯一的国家重点实验室。
• Construction of the Shenzhen Campus in Guangming District began in 2016 and the campus opened in September 2018, extending the university beyond Guangzhou and Zhuhai into the Pearl River Delta's eastern side深圳校区于 2016 年在光明区动工，2018 年 9 月启用，使学校的办学版图从广州、珠海延伸到珠江口东岸。
• From the end of 2022 the university has run a three-tier academic governance structure of university, faculties and schools, and it marked its centenary with a conference on 12 November 2024, the date of Sun Yat-sen's birth自 2022 年底起，学校实行「学校—学部—学院（系）」三级学术治理架构；2024 年 11 月 12 日孙中山诞辰纪念日，学校召开百年校庆大会。

Academics

• The seven faculties are those of humanities, social sciences, economics and management, natural sciences, engineering, information science and technology, and medicine, and they group together 65 schools including directly affiliated departments and teaching units学校设有人文、社会科学、经济与管理、理学、工学、信息科学与技术、医学七个学部，下辖 65 个学院（含直属系与教学单位）。
• Official statistics for 2018 recorded 17,022 full-time faculty, among them 2,266 professors and 2,898 associate professors, serving 65,638 full-time students2018 年的官方统计数据显示，学校有全职教师 17,022 人，其中教授 2,266 人、副教授 2,898 人，全日制学生 65,638 人。
• The same 2018 count listed 32,220 undergraduates, 13,351 students reading for master's degrees and 5,961 doctoral students, giving the university a postgraduate body close to thirty per cent of its enrolment同一份 2018 年统计显示，本科生 32,220 人、硕士研究生 13,351 人、博士研究生 5,961 人，研究生规模接近在校生总数的三成。
• The university then offered 130 undergraduate majors, 59 master's degree programmes, 49 doctoral programmes and 30 professional degree programmes, and maintained 41 postdoctoral research stations学校当时开设 130 个本科专业、59 个硕士学位项目、49 个博士学位项目和 30 个专业学位项目，并设有 41 个博士后科研流动站。
• Eleven disciplines were named in the second round of the national Double First-Class Construction list, namely philosophy, mathematics, chemistry, biology, ecology, materials science and engineering, electronic science and technology, basic medicine, clinical medicine, pharmacy and business administration学校有 11 个学科入选国家第二轮「双一流」建设学科名单，分别是哲学、数学、化学、生物学、生态学、材料科学与工程、电子科学与技术、基础医学、临床医学、药学与工商管理。
• In the fourth round of the national discipline evaluation the university gained 14 A-class disciplines, with business administration and ecology rated A+ and Marxist theory and public administration rated A在全国第四轮学科评估中，学校共有 14 个学科获评 A 类，其中工商管理与生态学为 A+，马克思主义理论与公共管理为 A。
• A further eleven disciplines were rated A minus in that evaluation, including clinical medicine, basic medicine, pharmacy, mathematics, chemistry, biology, Chinese history, physics, Chinese language and literature and philosophy该轮评估中另有 11 个学科获评 A-，包括临床医学、基础医学、药学、数学、化学、生物学、中国史、物理学、中国语言文学与哲学。
• The university runs the largest affiliated hospital system in China, with ten affiliated hospitals of which eight general hospitals, the cancer centre and the ophthalmic centre hold the highest 3A grade学校拥有中国规模最大的附属医院体系，共十家附属医院，其中八家综合医院以及肿瘤防治中心、眼科中心均为三级甲等医院。
• The Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center treats the most complex eye cases in the country, ranks among the twenty largest general eye centres in the world and hosts the State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology approved in 2006中山眼科中心承担国内最复杂的眼科诊疗，位列全球规模最大的二十家综合眼科中心之一，并建有 2006 年获批的眼科学国家重点实验室。
• The Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center was designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for cancer research in 1980, became a sister institution of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2003, and set up a joint laboratory with the Karolinska Institutet of Sweden in 2004中山大学肿瘤防治中心于 1980 年被确定为世界卫生组织癌症研究合作中心，2003 年与美国得克萨斯大学 MD 安德森癌症中心结为姐妹机构，2004 年与瑞典卡罗林斯卡医学院共建联合实验室。
• University libraries held more than six million printed volumes by December 2012, and the Hilles Collection of 158,000 volumes donated by Harvard College Library in 2005 forms the largest Western-language gift the university has received截至 2012 年 12 月，学校图书馆系统的纸质馆藏超过 600 万册；2005 年哈佛学院图书馆捐赠的 15.8 万册希尔斯藏书，是该校收到的规模最大的西文赠书。
• The university publishes 25 scholarly journals, among them Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni, the Chinese Journal of Cancer, Eye Science and the Chinese Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases学校主办 25 种学术期刊，其中包括《中山大学学报（自然科学版）》《癌症》《眼科学报》与《中国神经精神疾病杂志》。
• Annual research funding reached 454 million United States dollars in 2018 and the annual budget about 2.5 billion dollars, figures that place the university among the best resourced public institutions in China2018 年，学校的年度科研经费达到 4.54 亿美元，年度预算约 25 亿美元，这一投入规模使其成为中国经费最充裕的公立高校之一。
• Data submitted for the 2026-2027 U.S. News global rankings recorded 67,509 students, 2,871 international students and 4,351 academic staff, with 2,816 staff working solely on research学校为《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度世界大学排名提交的数据显示，在校学生 67,509 人、国际学生 2,871 人、学术人员 4,351 人，其中专职科研人员 2,816 人。
• The university has established five Confucius Institutes since 2006, at Ateneo de Manila University, in Indianapolis with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, in Lyon with Lumière University and Jean Moulin University, and at the University of Cape Town学校自 2006 年起共建了五所孔子学院，分别设在马尼拉雅典耀大学、印第安纳波利斯（与印第安纳大学—普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校合办）、尤卡坦自治大学、里昂（与里昂第二大学、里昂第三大学合办）与开普敦大学。
• Cross-disciplinary platforms created in recent years include the Institute of Green Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, the Hong Kong Advanced Institute and an artificial intelligence institute, and the Frontier Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Health Science and Technology was launched in June 2025学校近年布局的交叉学科平台包括绿色化学与分子工程研究院、香港高等研究院与人工智能研究院，健康科学与技术前沿交叉研究院于 2025 年 6 月揭牌。

Campus

• The university covers a total area of 6.17 square kilometres across five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen学校在广州、珠海、深圳三地共设五个校区，总面积 6.17 平方公里。
• The Guangzhou South Campus in Haizhu District covers 1.17 square kilometres and is the main campus, inheriting the grounds of the former Lingnan University and concentrating the sciences and the humanities位于海珠区的广州校区南校园占地 1.17 平方公里，是学校的主校区，承继原岭南大学校园，主要承载理科与人文学科。
• The red brick buildings of the south campus, laid out on the former Lingnan campus founded in 1888, are the best known architectural group on the grounds and are documented in university guides to the early complex南校园的红砖建筑群布局于 1888 年创办的岭南大学旧址之上，是校园中最知名的建筑群，学校还为其早期建筑群编写了导览手册。
• The Guangzhou North Campus in Yuexiu District covers 0.39 square kilometres and is devoted mainly to the medical sciences and to the affiliated hospitals clustered around it位于越秀区的广州校区北校园占地 0.39 平方公里，主要承载医学学科，周边集聚了多家附属医院。
• The Guangzhou East Campus sits at the northern end of the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center on Xiaoguwei in Panyu District, covers 1.13 square kilometres and took its first students in September 2004广州校区东校园位于番禺小谷围广州大学城北端，占地 1.13 平方公里，2004 年 9 月开始接收学生。
• The Zhuhai Campus at Tangjiawan covers 3.48 square kilometres and hosts lower-year students of selected liberal arts, science and medical programmes, and the university has made it the base for deep sea, deep space, deep earth and deep blue research clusters珠海校区位于唐家湾，占地 3.48 平方公里，承接部分文理医专业低年级学生，学校将其作为深海、深空、深地、深蓝学科群的基地。
• The Shenzhen Campus in Guangming District covers 3.217 square kilometres, opened in September 2018 after work began in 2016, and concentrates new medical and new engineering disciplines深圳校区位于光明区，占地 3.217 平方公里，2016 年动工、2018 年 9 月启用，重点建设新医科与新工科。
• Across the three cities the university assigns the traditional strengths in humanities, science and medicine to Guangzhou, marine and space science to Zhuhai and new engineering and medicine to Shenzhen, a division restated in its 2026 planning学校在三市的布局是：广州校区重点提升文、理、医传统优势学科，珠海校区重点发展深海、深空、深地、深蓝学科群，深圳校区重点建设新医科与新工科，这一分工在 2026 年的学校规划中再次得到确认。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Sun Yat-sen University was placed in a tie for 258th place, and the same publisher ranked it fourteenth among universities in China在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，中山大学位列并列第 258 名；同一机构在中国内地高校中将其列为第 14 名。
• Times Higher Education placed the university in a tie for 205th place in its 2027 World University Rankings, continuing a run of appearances inside the world's top 250泰晤士高等教育在 2027 年世界大学排名中把中山大学列为并列第 205 名，学校由此继续保持在全球前 250 名之内。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2026 placed the university sixty-second in the world, tenth in Asia and seventh in China, its strongest showing on any of the four main global tables2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将中山大学列为全球第 62 名、亚洲第 10 名、中国第 7 名，这是该校在四大世界大学排行榜中的最好成绩。
• U.S. News and World Report ranked the university seventy-fourth in the world in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, fifteenth in Asia and eighth in China, with fifty of its subjects listed, two inside the global top ten and thirty-one inside the global top fifty在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，中山大学位列全球第 74 名、亚洲第 15 名、中国第 8 名，共有 50 个学科上榜，其中 2 个学科进入全球前十、31 个学科进入全球前五十。
• Essential Science Indicators data updated in May 2026 put twenty-one university disciplines inside the global top one per cent and sixteen inside the top one per thousand, a count tied for first place among Chinese universities2026 年 5 月更新的基本科学指标数据库（ESI）数据显示，学校有 21 个学科保持全球前百分之一、16 个学科进入全球前千分之一，入选总数与国内高校并列第一。
• The 2025 CWTS Leiden Ranking placed the university seventh in the world by total publications and twenty-sixth by the number of its papers falling in the top one per cent of their fields over the period 2020 to 20232025 年莱顿大学排名（CWTS）将中山大学列为全球论文总量第 7 名，并在 2020 至 2023 年间进入各领域前百分之一论文数量上位列全球第 26 名。
• The Nature Index for 2024 ranked the university eighth among academic institutions worldwide and seventh in the Asia Pacific region, measuring its share of articles in a selected set of high quality journals2024 年自然指数（Nature Index）将中山大学列为全球学术机构第 8 名、亚太地区第 7 名，该排名按其在精选高质量期刊上的论文份额计算。
• OpenAlex had indexed 251,238 research works from the university with 21,213,321 recorded citations, an accumulated output that underpins its placing on the publication-weighted tablesOpenAlex 已收录中山大学 251,238 篇研究成果，记录被引 21,213,321 次，这一累计产出是学校在以论文量为主要权重的榜单上取得好名次的基础。
• The fifth round of the national discipline evaluation, whose results are not published in full, was reported by the university to have doubled its number of peak disciplines and produced a historic breakthrough in engineering disciplines全国第五轮学科评估结果未完整公布，学校方面表示本轮评估中其高峰学科数量成倍增长，工科实现了历史性突破。

Student life

• The motto written by Sun Yat-sen in 1924 reads study extensively, enquire accurately, reflect carefully, discriminate clearly and practise earnestly, and it is displayed on the campuses and quoted at degree ceremonies孙中山 1924 年题写的校训为「博学、审问、慎思、明辨、笃行」，五个校区均在校内展示这十字校训，学位授予仪式上也常引用它。
• The university celebrates its founding day on 12 November, the birthday of Sun Yat-sen, and the centenary conference held on that date in 2024 was the largest single event in its history学校以孙中山诞辰日 11 月 12 日为校庆日，2024 年 11 月 12 日举行的建校一百周年大会是校史上规模最大的一次活动。
• The degree ceremony for the class of 2026 was held on 27 June 2026 on the south campus, where more than eighteen thousand students received their degrees2026 届毕业典礼暨学位授予仪式于 2026 年 6 月 27 日在南校园举行，一万八千余名学子获得学位。
• The university museum and the university history hall keep the institutional record of the 1924 founding, of the Lingnan heritage of the south campus and of the wartime and postwar restructurings学校博物馆与校史馆保存着 1924 年创校、南校园岭南大学渊源以及战时与战后院系调整的历史记录。
• Students move between the five campuses as their programmes require, with many arts, science and medical undergraduates spending their first years at the Zhuhai campus before returning to Guangzhou学生按培养方案在五个校区之间流动，不少文理医专业的本科生先在珠海校区完成低年级学习，再回到广州校区。
• The university has run a targeted poverty alleviation programme in Fengqing County of Yunnan Province since 2013, sending staff and students to work on rural industry, health and education projects学校自 2013 年起定点帮扶云南省凤庆县，派师生参与当地的产业、医疗与教育帮扶项目。
• The university takes part in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance, whose tenth anniversary annual meeting and presidents' forum were held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in July 2026学校是粤港澳高校联盟的成员，该联盟十周年年会暨校长论坛于 2026 年 7 月在香港中文大学举行。
• Campus life is centred on the south campus in Haizhu, whose tree-lined Lingnan grounds and old halls give the university its most recognisable setting inside the city of Guangzhou校园生活以海珠区南校园为中心，那里承自岭南大学的林荫道与老建筑构成了中山大学在广州城内最具辨识度的校园环境。

Notable people

• Sun Yat-sen founded the university in 1924 and wrote its motto, and the institution took his name two years after his death under a decree of the Nationalist government孙中山于 1924 年创办该校并题写校训，学校在其逝世两年后经国民政府下令改以他的名字命名。
• Andrew Happer, an American medical missionary, founded the Canton Christian College in 1888 that grew into Lingnan University, whose campus and academic lineage passed to Sun Yat-sen University in 1953美国医学传教士哈巴安德于 1888 年创办格致书院，该校后来发展为岭南大学，其校园与学脉于 1953 年并入中山大学。
• Mary H. Fulton, sent to China by the Presbyterian mission board, founded the Hackett Medical College for Women dedicated in 1902, the first medical college for women in the country受长老会差会派遣来华的富马利创办了 1902 年落成的夏葛女子医学院，这是中国第一所女子医学院。
• Peter Parker, the American physician and missionary who opened the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton in 1835, is the founding figure behind what is now the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital1835 年在广州开办眼科医局的美国医生兼传教士伯驾，是今日中山大学孙逸仙纪念医院的创始人物。
• Tang Hongwu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and formerly president of Hohai University, was appointed president of Sun Yat-sen University in July 2026 at the vice-ministerial rank中国工程院院士、原河海大学校长唐洪武于 2026 年 7 月被任命为中山大学校长（副部长级）。
• Liu Chenggong serves as secretary of the university's Communist Party committee and presided over the degree ceremony of the class of 2026 held in June 2026刘承功担任中山大学党委书记，并主持了 2026 年 6 月举行的 2026 届学位授予仪式。
• Xu Ningsheng, a physicist who graduated from the university, became the twenty-first president of Fudan University, and Ye Shuhua, an astronomer and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is another of its science graduates毕业于该校的物理学家许宁生出任复旦大学第二十一任校长；天文学家、中国科学院院士叶叔华同样是中大培养的科学家。
• The physicist Li Fanghua, the botanist Shiu-Ying Hu and the Chinese-American mathematician Shou-Wu Zhang are among the scholars associated with the university与中山大学相关的学者包括物理学家李方华、植物学家胡秀英，以及华裔美国数学家张寿武。
• Huang Huahua, a graduate of the university, served as Governor of Guangdong, and Xu Ze pursued a career as a politician in the same period中山大学毕业生黄华华曾担任广东省省长，徐泽也在同一时期从政。
• Fang Fenglei, formerly deputy director of China International Capital Corporation and chairman of Goldman Sachs China, is among the university's best known business graduates曾任中国国际金融有限公司副总经理、高盛中国区主席的方风雷，是中大最知名的商界校友之一。
• Tsang Hin-chi, who founded the Goldlion Group and served as an entrepreneur and politician, studied at the university, as did Sonia Chan, the second Secretary for Administration and Justice of Macau金利来集团创办人、企业家兼政治人物曾宪梓曾在中山大学就读，澳门特别行政区第二任行政法务司司长陈丽敏同样毕业于该校。
• Xu Yinchuan, a former world champion in xiangqi, and the artist and children's author Zhang Huaicun are further graduates, as is Lai Minhua, who directed the Macao Customs Service前世界象棋冠军许银川、儿童文学作家兼画家张怀存，以及曾任澳门海关关长的赖敏华，也都是该校毕业生。