University Development Fund will help the University simultaneously respond to concurrent development demands, including but not limited to campus infrastructure, student development, scholarships & grants and talent & research development.

Combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. The University strives to cultivate talents with both Chinese cultural tradition and international vision.

The University strives for higher excellence in education and recruit wolrd-class scholars, including Nobel laureates.

The University aims to serve as a foundation for launching student-led start-ups. Faculty and students of CUHK-Shenzhen are encouraged to form teams to develop a viable venture that seeks to solve real-world problems.

The University is committed to becoming a wolrd-class research university, for which, a number of National Key Laboratories and Research Programmes have been set up.