CURRENTLY, SMBU has purchased more than 1,600 sets of experimental instruments and equipment with a total value of more than 41 million yuan (US$6.41 million), plus more than 11 million yuan of supporting facilities such as laboratory benches and tables. The university has 81 laboratory rooms, with a usable area of more than 3,000 square meters, and has thus far built five major experimental teaching platforms.

In 2019, with the approval of the city’s science, technology and innovation commission, about 20 million yuan was invested in the construction of eight scientific research platforms including an applied nanophotonics platform, a distributed intelligent energy industry application laboratory, an aviation internal combustion engine performance laboratory, a cluster intelligent international innovation laboratory, an advanced interconnection and heterogeneous integration laboratory, a new battery materials R&D laboratory, an intelligent unmanned systems joint laboratory, and an intelligent manufacturing laboratory.

At present, SMBU has established a joint research center for computational mathematics and cybernetics, and an advanced interdisciplinary technology research center. The Sino-Russian Law Comparative Research Center was established, and was rated as a key base of social sciences in Shenzhen and nominated for the “top 10 rule of law events” in Shenzhen in 2020.

SMBU is promoting the construction of basic research, technological innovation and humanities and social sciences platforms such as the joint research center of chemistry and materials, the scientific research and teaching center of radiochemistry and radioecology, the joint research center of modern biology and advanced sciences, the SMBU-Roscosmos cooperative basic laboratory and the Eurasian research center.

The project applied for in 2019 titled “Research on optimization design method of non-uniform Poisson’s ratio structure for target deformation” was approved by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, realizing a breakthrough in provincial and ministerial scientific research projects.

In 2020, SMBU was approved to set up a postdoctoral innovation practice base and 61 postdoctoral scientific research posts. In the first half of 2021, 33 scientific research projects at the ministerial, provincial and municipal levels were applied for.