A prosperous academic culture shapes the vital soft environment for the development of research universities. In 2020, the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) overcame series of difficulties among the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. The University had held more than 800 academic conferences and forums online and off-line, which delivered collisions of ideas to teachers and students.

Among over 800 high-level lectures and forums, nearly 700 are about science and engineering,and over 160 are about philosophy and humanities and social sciences. More than 80 academicians hosted speeches and brought their academic sharing to teachers and students.

Various first-class academic seminars and forums were held in SUSTech. Scholars and experts in different fields had in-depth discussions to promote new development in related disciplines.

There comes some important forums that SUSTech held, Global Scientist Interdisciplinary Online Forum, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies Forum, The Fifth Overseas Chinese Orthopedics Summit Forum, The 11th National Conferencne on Fluid Mechanics, Xili Lake International Science and Education City: Creating New Opportunities for University-Industry Partnership, the 2020 Global Smart Education Conference – “International Forum for ICT in Higher Education Transformation”, Public Health and Emergency Management and the International Forum on Health Science and Technology in the Greater Bay Area.

Hoding high-level lectures is a routine of SUSTech’s campus life, represented by SUSTech Lecture Series. Famous academicians,  Zihe RAO, Chi WANG, Quanshui ZHENG, DeLong, and director of the National Art Museum WeishanWU, well-known violinist Siqing LU came to SUSTech with cutting-edge academic speeches and new ideas.