The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is the second campus of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, located 30 kilometres north of the main campus in Sha Tin. CUHK is a public research university in Hong Kong, which is a world well-known brand of education for its achievement in academic research and international network of alumni. Shenzhen campus is considered as a cultural inheritance of CUHK in Mainland China, which is culturally related to CUHK.
Officially founded on 11 October 2012 and approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (MoE) on 16 April 2014, School of Management and Economics (SME) of the new campus enrolled its first batch of 315 undergraduate students at the end of August 2014, including two international students. The campus is still at its initial stage of development and is continuing to increase the number of students and staff in line with a Master Plan for basic construction of the campus and its facilities.