In the fall semester of 2022, the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) focused on cultivating outstanding innovative talents, holding several seminars and forums around this topic.

From August 25 to 26, the University held its 2022 Fall Meeting on Strategic Planning and Development. This year, the meeting focused on the cultivation of innovative talents, centering on all levels of talent training, and put forward the directions and ideas on how curricula, faculty members, and various departments should approach their work in talent training.

From September to December, the first Education and Teaching Seminar Series were held, where various offices and departments came together to hold seminars and meetings throughout the semester to discuss how to cultivate top-notch innovative talents and promote the high-quality development of education and teaching at the University.

On December 6, the "Leading Innovation, Gathering Wisdom" SUSTech Talent Cultivation Summit was held at the University. With the theme of "Innovating talent cultivation models, improving the quality of talent training, building a university-enterprise cooperation platform, and promoting the collaboration of university, industry, research and application", the summit invited representatives of the government, associations, executives of leading enterprises, to come together with faculty members of SUSTech to share and discuss ideas and views.

In 2022, the University also revised the Charter of the Undergraduate Teaching Committee and the Charter of the Undergraduate Teaching Steering Committee to support the implementation of the talent training plan, and further improve the faculty evaluation system for talent training. For the first time in 2022, a course on "XI Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" was offered to undergraduate students.