•SUSTech’s Taiyi Supercomputing Cluster ranked in top 200 globally

•SUSTech selected as a key discipline developer of high-level universities in Guangdong Province

•Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center opens, becoming the largest of its sort in China

•Affiliated Hospitals of Southern University of Science and Technology unveiled

•SUSTech receives first world ranking in Times Higher Education World University Rankings, ranked 8th in mainland China

•SUSTech signed Memorandum of Understanding with Milan Polytechnic University

•New High for Funded NSFC Projects in 2018

•Chemistry and Materials Science debut in top 1% of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) world ranking

SUSTech and MIT sign agreement for Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education

•SUSTech and HEC Paris sign strategic collaboration agreement in front of French Prime Minister

•Alumni Association founded

•SUSTech earns authority to confer doctoral degree in the shortest amount of time since establishment

•Shenzhen Institute of Wide-bandgap Semiconductors launched

•Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Summit jointly hosted by SUSTech and Times Higher Education

•SUSTech ranked 28th among Mainland China’s Universities in Nature Index Tables

•SUSTech received Major Projects funding from NSFC for the first time

•Nanshan District Government and SUSTech partnered up to build a University Affiliated Hospital

•Professor Tao Tang, the Vice-President of SUSTech, was elected and became the first academician cultivated locally in Shenzhen.

•SUSTech students win first prize in 2017 iGEM Competition.

•SUSTech Cultural Heritage Laboratory inauguration ceremony held

•14 leaders from world-class universities were invited to take their post of member of the International Advisory Committee of SUSTech (IAC).

•SUSTech #31 on Nature Index’s Mainland China University Ranking

•SUSTech endorsed first Qualified University for National Exam-free Graduate Recommendation

•SUSTech Experimental Education group was established with Nanshan District Government

•Shenzhen Grubbs Institute officially established at SUSTech

•SUSTech to host 2018 THE Asia Universities Summit

•SUSTech established the Department of Earth Space and Science.

•Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, visited the university and offered her full support for the work of the Center for Higher Education Innovation.

•SUSTech’s materials science and engineering, chemistry ranked top on 2016 China University Discipline Evaluation Report released by CUAA

•Li Fengliang appointed vice-Chairperson of the University Council of SUSTech.

•SUSTech and Nobel Prize Winner Professor Robert H. Grubbs co-established the Shenzhen Grubbs Institute.

•President Chen Shiyi Elected to Assembly of Shenzhen Association for Science and Technology as Vice Committee Chairman

•International students enrolled for the first time.

•SUSTech-PKU “World River Institute” Officially Launched

•Guo Yurong appointed as Council Spokesperson of SUSTech

•The opening ceremony for the SUSTech-based UNESCO Center for Higher Education Innovation took place and SUSTech gears up to cooperate with the center. SUSTech-based UNESCO Research Center is the only one in the Asia-Pacific region to focus on the field of higher education in the second category.

•SUSTech successfully passed the field assessment of the Guangdong Provincial Academic Degrees Committee expert group.

•Department of Education of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Municipal Government and SUSTech signed the Agreement of the Co-construction of SUSTech to be a High-level University of Science and Engineering.

•UNESCO signed trust fund agreements with Shenzhen to set up a higher education innovation center based in SUSTech.

•Professor Chen Shiyi, a fellow of CAS and former Vice President of Peking University, took office as the second President of SUSTech

•Founding Ceremony and Inaugural Forum for Shenzhen International Friendship-city University League held. Members from 28 universities delivered message promoting more global higher education cooperation and exchange.

•UNESCO signed MOU with the Municipal Government of Shenzhen to set up a category two center in SUSTech

•Dr. Li Ming took office as Chairperson of the University Council.

•Shuren Residential College, the second Residential College of SUSTech, was founded.

•SUSTech moves into new campus

•The First Session of Advisory Committee of SUSTech was held, electing YANG Zuyou, President of the University of California, Santa Barbara, as Chairman. September Students admitted through gaokao for the first time.

•Seven talents of SUSTech included in the Young Overseas High-level Talents Introduction Plan released by Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee Head, ranking the university 6th nationwide.

•The Ministry of Education endorsed the establishment of SUSTech.

•SUSTECH founded its Advisory Committee.

•The founding of the SUSTech Education Foundation took place.

•Zhiren College founded.

•SUSTech Board of Trustees held maiden meeting, approved Board of Trustees By-Laws and SUSTech By-Laws.

•Municipal Government of Shenzhen issued interim Management Measures for SUSTech.

•First group of undergraduate students enrolled without taking gaokao.

•Ministry of Education issued University Code for SUSTech (14325) and approved the plan for establishing SUSTech. 

•SUSTech campus groundbreaking ceremony took place.

•Professor Zhu Qingshi, a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is appointed as SUSTech’s founding President.

•Shenzhen Municipal Government endorsed campus planning and design of SUSTech.

•Founding of Planning Committee, which was responsible for approval and establishment of the university and admission affairs.

•Government work report endorsed the plan for the establishment of SUSTech.