Situated in Guangdong province, which has stood at the forefront of the country's exchange and cooperation with other countries and regions, Sun Yat-sen University has expanded its connections with its counterparts overseas.

The university has established cooperative relations with 290 institutions of higher learning, 62 of which are on the world's top 100 list, and research institutions and international organizations located in more than 40 countries and regions.

Such relations have supported the development of its academic disciplines, led to concrete joint projects and teams, and facilitated its participation in global governance, forming an important driving force behind the university's high-quality development.

A French expert tutors students at the Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology. CHINA DAILY

The university's Tianqin Center for Gravitational Physics, which is engaged in gravitational wave research, has been collaborating with Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the University of Glasgow in building a state-of-the-art science center.

The space-based gravitational wave detection program, Tianqin, will consist of three satellites forming an equilateral triangle around the Earth by 2035.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University has carried out in-depth cooperation with the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Joslin Diabetes Center, all affiliated with Harvard Medical School, in academic discipline building, talent cultivation and remote medical service.

It also created an international robotic surgery training center in 2023 with the University of California at Berkeley; University of California, Davis; and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, which is a research unit of the University of California.