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六十载薪火相传，一甲子风华正茂。2025年11月22日，广东外语外贸大学将迎来60华诞，这是学校发展史上的重要里程碑。在此，我们谨向长期以来关心支持广外建设与发展的各级领导、海内外校友、社会各界人士，向全体师生员工、离退休老同志致以衷心的感谢和崇高的敬意！
忆往昔，广外因外而生，特色鲜明，底蕴深厚。1965年因应国家外交事业发展需要，广州外国语学院扎根南粤。1980年伴随改革开放的时代大潮，广州对外贸易学院应运而生。1995年两所学校强强联合，组建广东外语外贸大学。2008年广东财经职业学院划入广外。六十年来，学校始终与党和国家同向同行，与时代发展同频共振，积淀了深厚的红色基因和文化底蕴，担负起历史赋予的光荣使命和重大责任，在人才培养、科学研究、社会服务、文化传承创新、国际交流合作等方面，展现广外担当，贡献广外力量。
看今朝，广外因外而兴，踔厉奋发，勇立潮头。学校始终秉承“明德尚行、学贯中西”的校训精神，大力弘扬“卓越、诚信、包容、自信”的价值观，积极涵养“进德、修业、务实、致远”的学风，为党和国家培养了30余万复合型创新型国际化人才，在服务对外工作大局中提供有力的人才和智力支撑。面对教育强国建设的新要求和高等教育发展的新形势，学校紧紧围绕“国家所需、未来所向、湾区所急、广外所能”，全力推进高水平大学建设，充分发挥国际化办学特色优势，自觉担当涉外人才培养的引领者、服务对外开放战略的贡献者、中外文明交流互鉴的推动者。
向未来，广外因外而强，奋楫扬帆，卓越远航。面对中华民族伟大复兴战略全局、世界百年未有之大变局，学校将始终牢记为党育人、为国育才初心使命，认真落实立德树人根本任务，矢志追求卓越，奋力争创一流，以服务国家重大战略为己任，聚焦高水平对外开放，着力打造特色鲜明、优势突出的国际化人才培养主阵地和区域国别学、全球治理、涉外法治、中华文化国际传播、语言与人工智能等学科建设新高地，努力为推进中国式现代化建设作出新的更大贡献，在“强国建设，广外何为”的答卷中续写光荣与梦想。
礼赞致敬六秩荣光，携手共谱未来华章。学校将以“六秩荣光、再谱华章”为主题，举办建校60周年系列活动。我们诚挚邀请各级领导、四海校友、中外宾朋齐聚广外，畅叙情谊，共襄盛举，擘画未来！
特此公告，敬祈周知。
广东外语外贸大学
2024年11月23日
联 系 人：江树森
联系电话：020-31522297
传 真：020-36207367
电子邮箱：xqb60@gdufs.edu.cn
网 址：https://gdufs60.gdufs.edu.cn/
地 址：广州市白云大道北2号
邮政编码：510420
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 60th Anniversary Celebration Announcement
(First Notice)
Sixty years of steadfast dedication, a full cycle of flourishing excellence. On November 22, 2025, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) will mark its 60th anniversary—a significant milestone in the university’s history. In celebration of this occasion, we extend our sincere gratitude and highest respect to the leaders at all levels, our alumni at home and abroad, friends from all walks of life, and our faculty, staff, students, and retired colleagues for their longstanding support and dedication to the growth and advancement of GDUFS.
Looking back on our history, GDUFS was established with a distinctive mission to serve international needs, characterized by unique strengths and a rich foundation. In 1965, Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages was founded in the southern cosmopolitan city of Guangzhou in response to the country’s need for foreign service. In 1980, Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade was founded amid China’s early phase of reform and opening-up. In 1995, the two institutions merged into the current form, with Guangdong College of Finance and Economics incorporated into the university in 2008. Over the past sixty years, the university has advanced in step with the Party and the nation, keeping pace with the times. With a rich revolutionary tradition and cultural heritage, it has embraced the noble mission and critical responsibilities bestowed by history. Through student education, research, social service, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchange and cooperation, GDUFS has demonstrated its commitment and made lasting contributions.
Looking to the present, GDUFS continues to flourish as an institution rooted in its international mission, forging ahead with vigor and standing at the forefront of higher education. Embracing the values of excellence, honesty, inclusiveness and self-confidence, GDUFS is dedicated to its motto “Pursuit of Integrity, Practice and Cross-cultural Learning”, fostering in every student an academic ethos of virtue, diligence, practicality, and noble ambition. The university has nurtured over 300,000 multidisciplinary, innovative, and internationally oriented professionals for the Party and the nation, providing valuable intellectual and talent support for China’s foreign-related endeavors. In response to the new demands of empowering the nation through education and the evolving landscape of higher education, GDUFS aligns its focus with national needs, future trends, the development priorities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the university’s unique strengths, while further solidifying its reputation as a highly respected university with academic distinction. Leveraging its distinct advantages in internationalization, GDUFS takes on its role as a leader in foreign-related student education, a contributor to opening up, and a facilitator of cross-cultural exchange and mutual learning.
Looking to the future, GDUFS continues to grow stronger through its international focus and is poised to embark on a new journey of sustained excellence. In light of China’s grand plan for national rejuvenation amid global changes of a magnitude not seen in a century, the university firmly upholds its founding mission of nurturing talent for the Party and the nation, fulfilling the fundamental mission of fostering virtue through education, and relentlessly pursuing excellence. By aligning with key national strategic priorities and supporting high-level international engagement, GDUFS aims to be a leading institution for cultivating internationally-oriented talent with distinctive strengths and competencies, as well as a pioneering base for area studies, global governance, foreign-related rule of law, international communication of Chinese culture, and the integration of language and artificial intelligence. The university will make more and greater contributions to Chinese modernization, continuing to write its legacy of glory and dreams in the ongoing journey of national strength.
Honoring Six Decades of Glory, Together We Will Craft New Chapters of Excellence. Under the theme “Sixty Years of Glory and New Chapters of Excellence,” GDUFS will host a series of events to celebrate its 60th anniversary. We warmly invite leaders at all levels, alumni from around the world, and friends from China and abroad to gather at GDUFS, to rekindle friendships, join in the grand celebration, and envision the future together!
We hereby make this announcement with sincere anticipation for your kind attention and participation.
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
November 23, 2024
For more information, please contact:
Jiang Shusen
Telephone: 020-31522297
Fax: 020-36207367
Email: xqb60@gdufs.edu.cn
Website: https://gdufs60.gdufs.edu.cn/
Address: No. 2 Baiyun Dadao Bei, Guangzhou, China
Postal Code: 510420
