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on the morning of september 20,the unveiling ceremony of foshan universityit was held at the xianxi campus of the university.foshan university has since been officially renamed.on may 29 this year, the ministry of education sent a letter to the people's government of guangdong province, agreeing to change the name of foshan university of science and technology to foshan university.

foshan university originated from foshan normal university and foshan branch of south china agricultural university founded in 1958. it has a 66-year history of running schools. in 2013, the school was approved as a master's degree-granting institution. in 2015, it was selected as one of the first batch of high-level science and engineering universities in guangdong province. in 2017, it became a doctoral degree-granting project construction unit. in 2021, it was upgraded to a high-level university in guangdong province (key discipline construction university).

in recent years, foshan university has taken accelerating the renaming of the university, applying for doctoral degree authorization, and enhancing the influence of disciplines as the "three major projects" of the school's construction and development, and has made great efforts to explore the development path of a high-level university with local characteristics, with remarkable results. among them, in september 2022, the first batch of four national excellent engineer innovation institutes were officially established, among which the guangdong-hong kong-macao greater bay area (foshan) advanced manufacturing national excellent engineer innovation institute was established at foshan university.

the school has 2 key disciplines with advantages in guangdong province, 4 key disciplines with characteristics, and 4 key construction disciplines for "breakthrough, supplement and strengthen". a total of 6 disciplines, including engineering, materials science, environmental science/ecology, plant and animal science, chemistry, and agricultural science, are among the top 1% in the esi global ranking; in terms of scientific research, the school has 1 national hydrogen energy technology standard innovation base (foshan) of the standards administration of the people's republic of china, 1 guangdong-hong kong-macao joint laboratory, and 9 guangdong key laboratories. in 2022, a total of 7 projects won the second prize of guangdong science and technology progress award (the number of awards ranked 8th in the guangdong science and technology award university ranking list of that year). in 2023, it was ranked 5th in guangdong province and was listed among the top 100 universities for inventions and creations in china.

as the only undergraduate university in foshan, a trillion-dollar manufacturing city,the development of foshan university has attracted much attention. after the name change, foshan has become the fourth city in guangdong to have a university named after a city, following guangzhou, shantou and shenzhen.

source: nanfang+, foshan university.