Guangzhou Huashang College was founded in 2005 and was approved by the Ministry of Education as an independent college in 2006. In 2011, it was approved as a bachelor's degree granting institution. In December 2020, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Guangzhou Huashang College was established and renamed. The school focuses on undergraduate education and actively develops professional degree graduate education. The school is a selected university for the construction of first-class undergraduate majors at the national level by the Ministry of Education, and a construction university for the grant of master's degrees in Guangdong Province. Professor Chen Xinzi, a world famous chemist, an academician of the CAS Member, and the former president of Hong Kong Baptist University, served as the president of the school, and Professor Jean Marie Lehn, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, served as the honorary president. The school is a large private business university with distinct financial and economic characteristics in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and is also a full-time applied undergraduate institution that integrates and coordinates multiple disciplines.
