CUHK-Shenzhen encourages international experiences and seeks to nurture global awareness. As of now, it has signed agreements with more than 150 renowned universities in 30 countries across the globe, offering around 250 international programmes of different types. Over 60% students have credit-bearing overseas experience.

The University’s global recruiting has gathered the world’s leading scholars and scientists here at CUHK-Shenzhen. By now, around 700 distinguished scholars have joined our faculty team, each of whom has had teaching or research experience overseas, including 5 Nobel laureates, 2 Turing Award laureates, 1 Fields Medal winner and more than 40 fellow members of science academies around the world. Together with their knowledge and expertise, they bring to CUHK-Shenzhen their vision, creativity, passion and dedication for education.

Rising up to the challenges and opportunities of the Greater Bay Area and modern China at large, CUHK-Shenzhen is strengthening its research teams of experts and professionals in big data and data science, future intelligent network, bioinformatics, new materials and energy, finance and logistics, robotics and intelligent manufacturing, drug discovery and precise medicine, and other areas of sci-tech innovation.

CUHK-Shenzhen will adhere to its original aspiration, and strive to evolve into a world-class university, with a top-notch education and research environment, so as to cultivate innovative talents for China and the world.

Mission & Vision

To advance the creation, preservation, application and dissemination of knowledge through the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and public service in a diverse range of disciplines, thereby serving the needs and enhancing the well-being of the citizens of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China as a whole, and the wider world community.

To be acknowledged regionally, nationally and internationally as a first-class research university whose bilingual and global dimensions of teaching and learning, scholarly output and contribution to the community consistently meet standards of excellence.

Emblem & Motto

The emblem of CUHK and CUHK-Shenzhen is the mythical Chinese phoenix (鳳) which has long been renowned as the Bird of the South ever since Han dynasty. It is a symbol of nobility, beauty, loyalty and majesty. The University colors of CUHK are purple and gold, representing dedication and loyalty, perseverance and resolution, respectively.

The motto of CUHK is 'Through learning and temperance to virtue' (博文約禮), extracted from The Analects of Confucius and long considered a principal precept of his teaching. According to the Analects, Confucius says 'The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.' (Legge's version of The Four Books) As manifested in our motto, CUHK-Shenzhen lays equal emphasis on intellectual and moral aspects of education.