Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) is a key provincial university and a high-tier one with distinctive features of internationalization in South China in its education of internationally-oriented personnel and its research on foreign languages & culture, international trade and international strategic studies. The University serves 20,454 full-time undergraduate students, more than 2,000 graduate students and over 13,000 international and continuing-education students.
1. History
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) was created by a merger in 1995 of Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages and Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade. The former, one of the three renowned institutes of foreign languages in China under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education (MOE), witnessed its establishment in 1965. The latter, directly under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce), was founded in 1980 as one of the first institutions in China offering an academic program in international economy and trade. In October 2008, Guangdong College of Finance and Economics also became part of the University.
2. Discipline and programs
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) consists of twenty-one faculties and one self-governing college (South China Business College) that offer 56 undergraduate programs in eight disciplines: literature, economics, management, law, engineering, science, and education and art studies. There are eight “national programs with distinctive features” and another eight “prestigious programs of the Province”. With 14 foreign languages offered to students, GDUFS is the only university in South China that offers such a variety of languages instruction. The University was accorded the qualification to confer master degrees in 1981 and doctoral degrees in 1986, thereby becoming one of the earliest institutions in China to earn postgraduate accreditation since the country resumed its postgraduate education programs. The University is home to one national key academic discipline, six provincial key disciplines, one post-doctoral research station, one Category I discipline PhD program, seven Category II discipline PhD programs, 10 Category I discipline masters programs, 32 Category II discipline masters programs, and five professional masters programs.
3. Academic facilities and scientific research
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) is fully equipped with advanced teaching facilities which are taking the lead among similar universities in the whole country. It boasts advanced campus network and management platforms, two provincial-level key labs and four provincial-level teaching demonstration centers, and a lab area totaling over 52,000 square meters. Covering a total area of 50,000 square meters, its libraries in the north and south campuses have a collection of 2.32 million hard-copy books, 1.7 million e-books, 3,114 domestic or foreign journals and 80 Chinese or overseas academic databases, providing network integrated management for book purchase, classification, cataloging, circulation and information search on library resources in 16 foreign languages. Its fixed assets stand at about 2.5 billion yuan.
4. Great achievements
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) is home to one of the MOE’s national key research centers for humanities and social sciences, i.e. Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics; 4 provincial-level key research centers for humanities and social sciences in institutions of higher learning in Guangdong, i.e. Center for Foreign Language and Culture, Center for International Trade and Economics, Center for Translation Studies, and Research Institute of Cantonese Merchants; and one key research center for humanities and social sciences in Guangzhou—Research Institute of Guangzhou International Business and Trade Center. The University also boasts Guangdong Research Institute on International Strategies and Research Institute of International Services Outsourcing. GDUFS publishes four academic journals of national impact: Modern Foreign Languages, International Economics & Trade Research, Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Journal of Strategy & decision-Making.
5. Communication and international cooperation
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) attaches great importance to a full range of cooperation and exchanges in international education. To date, it has established cooperative ties with more than 190 universities and academic or cultural institutions in 32 countries or regions. In addition, the University has co-established three Confucius Institutes overseas at Sapporo University, Japan, Ural State University, Russia and Universidad Católica de Santa María, Peru.
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) adheres to the idea of “whole-person education and pursuit of excellence” and nurtures a campus culture of diversity, elegance and flexibility. It keeps pursuing substantive development, further reform and innovation and vigorously promotes the internationalization of education-- internationalization of teachers, students, research and management--in order to be a high-tier internationalized university with distinctive features and excellent quality and enjoying high social reputation.
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