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October, 2019
While Vice Premier Sun Chunlan was inspecting Guangdong, Tian Xuejun, Vice Minister of Education, expressed his support for building GBU from a high starting point based on a new mechanism, and for the establishment of an open, high-level research university focused on cultivating postgraduate students.
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July, 2019
Guangdong Provincial Party Committee issued the Decision to Thoroughly Study and Implement the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Speeches Made during His Inspections of Guangdong and Striving to Create a New Era of Reform and Opening-up in Guangdong, clearly proposing to set up GBU in Dongguan.
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June, 2019
The seminar on the preparatory work of GBU was held, which was attended by Xing Feng, then Deputy Director of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province, principal leaders of Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, as well as a number of Chinese and foreign academicians and experts including Chen Hesheng, Chen Shiyi, Lu Bingheng, Lyu Jian and Gu Peihua.
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May, 2019
The Leading Group for Preparatory Establishment of GBU was set up, with Director Jing Lihu of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province and Liang Weidong, then Secretary of Dongguan Municipal Party Committee, serving as the general conveners.
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January, 2019
Huang Ningsheng, then Vice Governor of Guangdong Province, led a team to Beijing to attend the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Education Cooperation and Development Promotion Conference.
Xiao Yafei, then Deputy Secretary of Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Dongguan, made a special report on the GBU project, which was endorsed by Vice Minister of Education Sun Yao.