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Shenzhen's Deep Integration of Industry and Education Achieves a Win-Win-Win Outcome

Universities as Engines of Urban Innovation

In the technological innovation landscape of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, universities in Shenzhen are pioneering unique educational models to create a precise and efficient talent pipeline tailored to private enterprises. This seamless connection—from the classroom to the production line—is setting new benchmarks in talent development.

From Campus to Frontline: A Seamless Transition

With the start of the new semester, Xu Jieke, a junior student majoring in Intelligent Connected Vehicle Technology at Shenzhen Polytechnic University, began his internship at BYD, working on product segmentation and molding tasks. Thanks to his extensive hands-on training during school, Xu quickly adapted to the role. “Every semester, we had week-long practical sessions. I also joined the BYD–SZPT joint Structural Engineering Elite Class. What I learned aligns closely with my current job, so I adapted quickly.” According to reports, over 80 graduates from the university’s School of Automotive Engineering join BYD each year.

 

Shenzhen Polytechnic University continues to deepen its integration of education and industry. One of its core teaching features is aligning academic programs with the industrial chain. The campus hosts 18 specialized industry academies, including the Huawei ICT Academy and BYD Applied Technology Academy. By their sophomore year, students are already familiar with DJI drones and cutting-edge skills such as smart manufacturing line debugging and industrial internet operations. The university was among the first to launch a talent development program for integrated circuit manufacturing in 2021, and in 2024 introduced a bachelor’s program in Integrated Circuit Engineering Technology to meet wafer fab talent needs in the Greater Bay Area. Over the past five years, it has added 16 new majors, all 100% aligned with Shenzhen’s “20+8” industrial clusters, ensuring talent development keeps pace with industrial transformation.

 

Located in Shenzhen, a fertile ground for innovation and entrepreneurship, the university is determined to cultivate world-class talent in hard technology innovation and entrepreneurship, and build a globally influential empowerment platform for hard tech enterprises. Its graduates enjoy consistently high employment rates, with 92.2% holding professional skill certificates. Each year, the school provides technical backbone talent to support specialized and innovative enterprises across the Greater Bay Area.

Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Support Industry   

Breakthroughs in original innovations stem from strong foundations in basic research and interdisciplinary collaboration—areas in which universities have a natural advantage.

 

As a dynamic new research university, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is committed to accelerating the transformation of scientific achievements through deep university–enterprise cooperation. Since launching its national innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base in 2021, SUSTech has rapidly advanced its technology commercialization efforts and founded over 30 high-tech startups.

 

Technology transfer is a key differentiator and competitive strength for SUSTech’s startups. The university has proactively moved forward in the innovation chain—from cultivating high-value patents to incubating high-value technologies—fully leveraging its intellectual property assets to enable real-world application. It has also established an active “research–industry” dialogue mechanism. By April 2024, the university had supported 104 tech companies through its commercialization efforts.

To promote collaboration among its startups, SUSTech hosts an annual entrepreneurship summit to encourage sharing of market opportunities, resources, and entrepreneurial insights.

 

SUSTech’s flagship event, the “Wutong Tree International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition”, has become a key platform for commercializing scientific achievements at top-tier universities. Over the past four years, the competition has received over 700 project submissions. Among the 53 award-winning companies in the first three competitions, 38 (72%) secured post-competition funding, totaling over 2.9 billion RMB. To date, SUSTech-incubated companies have provided high-quality employment for over 800 university graduates.