中山大学由孙中山先生创办，有着一百多年办学传统。作为中国教育部直属高校，通过部省共建，中山大学已经成为一所国内一流、国际知名的现代综合性大学。现由广州校区、珠海校区、深圳校区三个校区、五个校园及十家附属医院组成。中山大学正在向世界一流大学迈进，努力成为全球学术重镇。

中山大学具有人文社科和理医工多学科厚实基础，不断追求学术创新，以国际视野开放办学，现已形成了“综合性、创新性、开放性”的特色。学校坚持中国特色社会主义办学方向，坚持立德树人根本，以“德才兼备、领袖气质、家国情怀”为人才培养目标；以“面向学术前沿、面向国家重大战略需求、面向国家和区域经济社会发展”为基本导向；树立了“三校区五校园”错位发展、合力支撑的发展思路。学校正在努力推进由外延式发展向内涵式发展转变，由常规发展向主动发展转变，由文理医优势向文理医工各具特色、融合发展转变。现在，中山大学正站在新的起点上，为建设成为“国内高校第一方阵、世界一流大学行列”的中国特色社会主义一流大学而努力奋斗！

Sun Yat-sen University, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen and with an educational tradition spanning over 100 years, is a preeminent research, academic and cultural center and the premier location for talent development in South China. Under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, and strongly supported by both the Ministry and Guangdong Province, Sun Yat-sen University has developed into a modern comprehensive university that enjoys a reputation as a top-tier university nationally and a renowned university internationally. With five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen, and ten affiliated hospitals, the University is striving to become a world-class university and global center of learning. 

Built on a solid multidisciplinary foundation of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, and engineering, Sun Yat-sen University is propelled forward by the continuous pursuit of academic innovation. The University is equipped with a globally aware outlook, and has dedicated itself to being an institution that is “comprehensive, innovative, and open”. The University adheres to the socialist orientation of higher education, focusing on the fundamental task of nurturing virtue and talents. The goal of talent cultivation is to nurture students who have both ability and moral integrity, able to cultivate charisma and eager to serve their country. The basic guiding philosophy is to be oriented toward academic frontiers, oriented toward national major strategic needs, and oriented toward national and regional economic and social development. The coordinated development of five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen will jointly support the development of the entire University. The University is pushing forward the transformation from external development to internal development, the transformation from routine development to active development, and the transformation from a university with discrete advantages in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and medical sciences to a university where humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences and engineering can integrate and develop while retaining their distinctive characteristics. Now, standing at a new starting point, Sun Yat-sen University strives to enter both the national first-tier of universities and the ranks of world-class elite universities, building a first-class socialist university with Chinese characteristics.