Shenzhen, the southern technological hub of China, is sometimes perceived as trailing behind Beijing and Shanghai, the country’s other major scientific and technological hubs. In terms of the quantity of top-tier colleges that can support its innovation environment and connections with business.

It is being fixed as a new group of colleges and institutions around the nation have been approved by the Ministry of Education. One of the projects approved is a new technology university for Shenzhen, which the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Shenzhen Municipal Government co-founded in Guangdong province.

The ministry revealed 33 proposed new undergraduate colleges and universities in two public notices on May 15. Of these, 16 were vocational, indicating the government’s strategic shift towards vocational education. Many colleges also have regional features, serving local businesses and sectors and promoting the social and economic advancement of the area. The public is being consulted by the government prior to official authorization.

However, it has already moved forward and approved the newly established Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT), which made its formal announcement on June 5 and will start accepting undergraduate applications in September.

According to Fan Jianping, head of the university’s preparatory office, the university has already unveiled ambitious growth plans with the goal of becoming Shenzhen’s “own University of Science and Technology of China” (USTC) in the upcoming ten years and a top science and engineering university in the world within twenty years.

He was referring to the renowned university that CAS initially established in the province of Hebei. Nowadays, CAS, the Ministry of Education and the provincial government of Anhui provide funding for it.