Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), also known as Nan Shan University, is a new public research university established in Shenzhen against the backdrop of China's higher education reform and development. With a high starting point and positioning, SUSTech has drawn on the disciplines and teaching models of the world's top universities in science, engineering, and medicine, while also incorporating business and distinctive humanities and social sciences. The university offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs, and conducts research in a range of new disciplines, making it a leading think tank and source of new knowledge and technologies driving social development. Rooted in China, SUSTech seizes the opportunity presented by the dual drivers of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and pioneers innovation, seeking truth, being pragmatic, pursuing excellence. The university highlights its focus on research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and strives to serve the construction of an innovative country and the modernization and internationalization of Shenzhen, by rapidly developing into an international, high-level research university that attracts top faculty, trains outstanding innovators, creates world-class academic achievements, and promotes technology application. SUSTech aims to lay a solid foundation for achieving its grand goal of becoming a world-class research university as soon as possible.