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About Sun Yat-Sen University
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Sun Yat-sen University is located in Guangdong Province, the frontal of reform and
opening. At present the University has 4 campuses with a total area of 6.17 square
kilometers sitting respectively on both sides of the Pearl River or facing the South
China Sea. The Guangzhou South Campus covers an area of 1.17 square kilometers,
the North Campus covers an area of 0.39 square kilometers, and the Zhuhai Campus
covers an area of 3.48 square kilometers. All campuses have exuberance of green
trees, abundance of lawns and beautiful sceneries, and are ideal for molding the
temperaments, studying and doing research. The Guangzhou East Campus has an
area of 1.13 square kilometers and is now under construction.
Characteristics and splendid achievements
Striking characteristics in education have been developed in almost 80 years of the
history of Sun Yat-sen University, of which the most outstanding are being open,
scientific and revolutionary.
Sun Yat-sen university was founded for the purpose of training revolutionaries. Dr. Sun
Yat-sen's mottos of "Serving the public" and "We have not succeeded in revolution and
should continue to endeavour" have been encouraging everyone in the University.
Leading officials of the previous times all attached importance to education of
patriotism and personal integrity, emphasized the national spirit, and cultivated ideas
of the state and ethics. Following Dr. Sun Yat-sen's example and taking his
revolutionary ideas as the guiding theory in running the school, the university has
graduated large quantities of excellent talents and fostered a fine tradition of
shouldering the responsibility of defending the country and building the nation in the
past 80 years. In his inscription to the university, Jiang Zemin, the General Secretary of
the Party, called on the faculty and students to "carry on the revolutionary spirit of Dr.
Sun Yat-sen.", which was indeed an appropriate summary of the revolutionary tradition
of Sun Yat-sen University.
The history of Sun Yat-sen University has been closely associated with a batch of
professors and scholars of great masters, whose ideas and methods of study and
research have fostered the fine tradition of emphasizing the "scientific nature". In the
school tenet of the university, it has been set as the goal to develop teaching and
research, and to strive to be a famous university since the beginning. The scientific
laws of stressing the foundation, quality, and talent training have become the tradition
of teaching and learning in Sun Yat-sen University. Professor Chen Yinqie, a renowned
master of the national classics, was proficient in a dozen languages, including
Sanskrit, and had made outstanding accomplishments in history, religion, linguistics,
textual research, cultural study and the fields such as Chinese classical literature. Mr.
Chen devoted himself to doing genuine studies and did not seek undeserved
reputation, insisting on "three don'ts" in academic research: don't lecture according to
the book; don't mimic what others have talked; and don't repeat what is said before
even by himself. He persisted in lecturing on the problems that were discovered in
academic research, as well as the exploration and thinking in the process of solving
these problems. The scientific style of teaching by concrete examples and the discreet
manner in research, the courage in exploring new academic fields have left a lot of
spiritual wealth to the scientific shrine of Sun Yat-sen University.
Guangzhou has always been the gateway of China's opening to the world and the
bridge connecting the inland with the oversea. This is the geographical background of
the tradition of "openness" in Sun Yat-sen University. Ever since the time of preparing
to set up Guangdong University, 31 out of the 35 members of the preparatory
committee were experts in advanced international education returned from the
overseas. Dr. Sun Yat-sen asked the university to study "mainly the changing science
and technology in the world." The university established an overseas branch in Lyons,
France at the beginning and implemented openness by recruiting well-known teachers
nation-wide. Since reform and opening, the university has been adhering to the
tradition of openness by promptly adjusting the structure of specialties and training
patterns so as to accommodate to the fast growth of the socialist market economy and
the economic development in Guangdong. The blending of the tradition of elite
education with corporate culture enables graduates of Sun Yat-sen University to adapt
to the society comparatively quickly and be accepted by the society. By employing a
batch of overseas scholars to teach in the university, the communication and
connection between traditional education and advanced international education has
been strengthened. The completion of the Zhuhai campus also embodies the tradition
of "openness" in running the university. The Zhuhai campus has become the window
of cooperation and exchange between foreign universities and Sun Yat-sen University
as well as the higher education in Guangdong and a new starting point of running a
well-known high-level international university.
In the recent few years, students in Sun Yat-sen University have made a lot of
achievements. For example, 9 doctoral theses from the university are selected to be
included in the 100 excellent doctoral theses nation-wide in the past years. In 2003, the
team representing Sun Yat-sen University won the silver award of the 27th computer
programming championship of college students, and another team won the champion
at the 4th investment planning ACCA open championship of college students held in
Hong Kong. In 2002, the student debate team of the university won the champion at the
national debate contest of college students, and was qualified to represent China at
the international debate contest of college students in 2003. In 2002, the team
representing the university beat other well-known universities in Asia and won the
champion at the Asian competition of business initiation planning, and took away all
champions in the individual events. The University ranked No. 1 in the second batch of
assessment of MBA teaching.
Sun Yat-sen University, the well-known Chinese university created by Dr. Sun Yat-sen,
has entered the fast lane of accelerated development. To build the University into a
high-level research-type comprehensive university ranked on top of universities in the
country and with greater influence in the world, all faculties, employees and students
are filled with confidence in inheriting the tradition and moving ahead, and are of one
heart and one mind in marching forward with time and exploiting and creating the new
world. In the new century, Sun Yat-sen University is sure to march victoriously and to
attain ever-splendid successes. (Last updated: April 5,2006)
opening. At present the University has 4 campuses with a total area of 6.17 square
kilometers sitting respectively on both sides of the Pearl River or facing the South
China Sea. The Guangzhou South Campus covers an area of 1.17 square kilometers,
the North Campus covers an area of 0.39 square kilometers, and the Zhuhai Campus
covers an area of 3.48 square kilometers. All campuses have exuberance of green
trees, abundance of lawns and beautiful sceneries, and are ideal for molding the
temperaments, studying and doing research. The Guangzhou East Campus has an
area of 1.13 square kilometers and is now under construction.
Characteristics and splendid achievements
Striking characteristics in education have been developed in almost 80 years of the
history of Sun Yat-sen University, of which the most outstanding are being open,
scientific and revolutionary.
Sun Yat-sen university was founded for the purpose of training revolutionaries. Dr. Sun
Yat-sen's mottos of "Serving the public" and "We have not succeeded in revolution and
should continue to endeavour" have been encouraging everyone in the University.
Leading officials of the previous times all attached importance to education of
patriotism and personal integrity, emphasized the national spirit, and cultivated ideas
of the state and ethics. Following Dr. Sun Yat-sen's example and taking his
revolutionary ideas as the guiding theory in running the school, the university has
graduated large quantities of excellent talents and fostered a fine tradition of
shouldering the responsibility of defending the country and building the nation in the
past 80 years. In his inscription to the university, Jiang Zemin, the General Secretary of
the Party, called on the faculty and students to "carry on the revolutionary spirit of Dr.
Sun Yat-sen.", which was indeed an appropriate summary of the revolutionary tradition
of Sun Yat-sen University.
The history of Sun Yat-sen University has been closely associated with a batch of
professors and scholars of great masters, whose ideas and methods of study and
research have fostered the fine tradition of emphasizing the "scientific nature". In the
school tenet of the university, it has been set as the goal to develop teaching and
research, and to strive to be a famous university since the beginning. The scientific
laws of stressing the foundation, quality, and talent training have become the tradition
of teaching and learning in Sun Yat-sen University. Professor Chen Yinqie, a renowned
master of the national classics, was proficient in a dozen languages, including
Sanskrit, and had made outstanding accomplishments in history, religion, linguistics,
textual research, cultural study and the fields such as Chinese classical literature. Mr.
Chen devoted himself to doing genuine studies and did not seek undeserved
reputation, insisting on "three don'ts" in academic research: don't lecture according to
the book; don't mimic what others have talked; and don't repeat what is said before
even by himself. He persisted in lecturing on the problems that were discovered in
academic research, as well as the exploration and thinking in the process of solving
these problems. The scientific style of teaching by concrete examples and the discreet
manner in research, the courage in exploring new academic fields have left a lot of
spiritual wealth to the scientific shrine of Sun Yat-sen University.
Guangzhou has always been the gateway of China's opening to the world and the
bridge connecting the inland with the oversea. This is the geographical background of
the tradition of "openness" in Sun Yat-sen University. Ever since the time of preparing
to set up Guangdong University, 31 out of the 35 members of the preparatory
committee were experts in advanced international education returned from the
overseas. Dr. Sun Yat-sen asked the university to study "mainly the changing science
and technology in the world." The university established an overseas branch in Lyons,
France at the beginning and implemented openness by recruiting well-known teachers
nation-wide. Since reform and opening, the university has been adhering to the
tradition of openness by promptly adjusting the structure of specialties and training
patterns so as to accommodate to the fast growth of the socialist market economy and
the economic development in Guangdong. The blending of the tradition of elite
education with corporate culture enables graduates of Sun Yat-sen University to adapt
to the society comparatively quickly and be accepted by the society. By employing a
batch of overseas scholars to teach in the university, the communication and
connection between traditional education and advanced international education has
been strengthened. The completion of the Zhuhai campus also embodies the tradition
of "openness" in running the university. The Zhuhai campus has become the window
of cooperation and exchange between foreign universities and Sun Yat-sen University
as well as the higher education in Guangdong and a new starting point of running a
well-known high-level international university.
In the recent few years, students in Sun Yat-sen University have made a lot of
achievements. For example, 9 doctoral theses from the university are selected to be
included in the 100 excellent doctoral theses nation-wide in the past years. In 2003, the
team representing Sun Yat-sen University won the silver award of the 27th computer
programming championship of college students, and another team won the champion
at the 4th investment planning ACCA open championship of college students held in
Hong Kong. In 2002, the student debate team of the university won the champion at the
national debate contest of college students, and was qualified to represent China at
the international debate contest of college students in 2003. In 2002, the team
representing the university beat other well-known universities in Asia and won the
champion at the Asian competition of business initiation planning, and took away all
champions in the individual events. The University ranked No. 1 in the second batch of
assessment of MBA teaching.
Sun Yat-sen University, the well-known Chinese university created by Dr. Sun Yat-sen,
has entered the fast lane of accelerated development. To build the University into a
high-level research-type comprehensive university ranked on top of universities in the
country and with greater influence in the world, all faculties, employees and students
are filled with confidence in inheriting the tradition and moving ahead, and are of one
heart and one mind in marching forward with time and exploiting and creating the new
world. In the new century, Sun Yat-sen University is sure to march victoriously and to
attain ever-splendid successes. (Last updated: April 5,2006)
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