Shenzhen MSU–BIT University
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The Shenzhen MSU–BIT University (SMBU) is a university (with independent legal entity registration) in Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is established in 2016 as a joint venture between the Beijing Institute of Technology and Moscow State University with funding support from Shenzhen Municipal Government.
Type | Sino-foreign cooperative university | ||||||||||
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Established | 2016; 8 years ago (2016) | ||||||||||
Location | , , China 22°41′24″N 114°12′29″E | ||||||||||
Language | Russian Chinese English | ||||||||||
Affiliations | Lomonosov Moscow State University Beijing Institute of Technology | ||||||||||
Website | smbu.edu.cn en | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 深圳北理莫斯科大学 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 深圳北理莫斯科大學 | ||||||||||
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Russian name | |||||||||||
Russian | Университет МГУ-ППИ в Шэньчжэне | ||||||||||
The campus has received 2.04 billion yuan (US$318 million) in investment from the Shenzhen Municipal Government.[1] Specially for the possibility of opening the university, changes were made to the Russian Federal Law "About Moscow State University Lomonosov and St. Petersburg State University".[2][3][4][5] On 13 September 2017, vice premiers of the two countries – Olga Golodets and Liu Yandong — as well as delegations from each founders took part in the university's opening ceremony.[6] Ceremony participants received high-level greetings.[7][8]
The university is the first Sino-Russian cooperative university, the ninth Sino-foreign university in China, and the second Sino-foreign university in Shenzhen.[9] It is a member of Sino-foreign Cooperative University Union.[10]