The school promotes the construction of first-class universities, with strong original scientific research and innovation ability, and has built 27 national scientific research platforms and 185 provincial scientific research platforms, ranking among the top universities in China and the first in Guangdong. Since 2009, the cumulative number of China patent awards has ranked first among universities in China. In 20 15 years, the patent technology transfer index ranks first among universities in China.
1960 became a national key university; 198 1 was approved by the State Council as the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units; 1993 is the first university established in China province; 1995 entered the ranks of "2 1 1 project"; 200 1, entering the ranks of "985 Project"; In 20 17, it was selected into the list of "double-class" universities, and in 20 18, academic ranking of world universities 20 1-300.