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Guangxi University was established in October 1928 with Dr. Ma Junwu, a celebrated scientist and educator as the first president. Many eminent professors such as Li Siguang, Wang Li, Liu Xianzhou, Chen ingke, Li Da, Chen Wangdao, Zhang Tiesheng, Zhang Zhirang and Chen Huanyong have been invited to teach at the university. The university is in Nanning, the capital city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Located in a charming subtropical scenery, the campus covers an area of 307 hectares with a building area of 1,202,600 square meters.

Research and teaching

The university has a library collection of over 2.52 million volumes, national key disciplines, 5 key disciplines of the 211 project, 2 key laboratories of the ministerial level, 2 key experimental centers of the provincial level, 16 provincial key disciplines, 1 demonstration base for teaching and research of modern agriculture technique, 1 national key laboratory base of ministerial and provincial level, 61 research institutes or centers and 67 university and college laboratories. Now it has 20 colleges.   The university has a personnel of 3,722, of whom 1,824 are full-time teachers, 53 are supervisors of doctoral students, 261 are professors and 535 associate professors. The present 24,205 students include 181 doctoral candidates and 4,145 master's degrees candidates, 19,879 undergraduates. In addition, there are 20,361 students for vocational training. The university has exploited the advantage of its multidisciplinarity and optimized its programs for a better quality of education.

International cooperation

It has cooperation and academic exchanges with 100 universities or research institutions in 28 countries and regions. The long-term cooperation in research closely links it with many universities, like Western Michigan University (U.S.A.), Gifu University and Mie University (Japan), the John Innes Institute and the Bioengineering Corporation of Cambridge University (Britain), Avmass Embryo Co.Ltd, of Dublin University (Ireland), New South Wales University and Sydney University (Australia), and many universities in Vietnam and Thailand. So far the university has sent 380 teachers and researchers abroad for academic study and joint research projects or to work as visiting researchers. Over 400 international experts and scholars have taught, given lectures, or cooperated on research projects in the university. The university is one of the earliest 66 universities authorized to enroll overseas students. Since 1962, many international students from 40 countries in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia have perused their study in the university.