AS strives to build itself into a scientific research base at advanced international level, a base for fostering and bringing up advanced S&T;talents, and a base for promoting the development of China's high and new technology industries.

POSTECH believes in keeping a strong alliance of academy, industry, and research with other industry and research centers, including POSCO and Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST). Also, Korea’s only synchrotron radiation facility, the Pohang Light Source; Korea’s largest biotechnology research center, the POSTECH Biotech Center; the National Center for Nanomaterials and Technology; and the only intelligent robot research center, the Pohang Institute of Intelligent Robotics; are among the many research centers hosted by POSTECH. Furthermore, the world’s only Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology offers leading training in the specialized area of ferrous technology.

South China University of Technology (SCUT) is one of China's key universities operating under the direct leadership of the State Ministry of Education, is situated in Guangzhou, a southern metropolitan in China.