GUANGZHOU, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — The inauguration ceremony of the Great Bay University (GBU) was held on Saturday.
Situated within the Dongguan City of south China’s Guangdong Province, the college has two campuses that cowl about 2,000 mu (about 133.3 hectares) in whole. It initially units up 5 common undergraduate packages, specifically arithmetic and utilized arithmetic, physics, supplies science and engineering, pc science and expertise, and industrial engineering.
A public establishment of larger schooling, sponsored by the Guangdong provincial authorities and supported by the municipal authorities of Dongguan, it obtained approval from China’s Ministry of Education in June. The 80 freshmen had began their first semester since August.
Tian Gang, the founding president of the GBU and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, stated at Saturday’s inauguration ceremony that the college is to “provide high-quality talent for the accelerated development of new productive forces in Dongguan as well as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and to facilitate scientific and technological innovation and the development of emerging industries there.”
He famous that GBU is to collaborate with a number of universities, analysis establishments and main enterprises to collectively nurture postgraduate college students.
One of essentially the most economically dynamic areas in China, the Greater Bay Area’s gross home product reached 14.79 trillion yuan (about 2.1 trillion U.S. {dollars}) in 2024, exceeding that of the New York and San Francisco Bay Areas. ■