Guangdong Teachers College of Technology, located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is a provincial full-time comprehensive college with undergraduate education and the right to award master's degrees, covering engineering, science, literature, management, education, economics, law, art and other disciplines. It is a key construction university in Guangdong Province to accelerate the development of vocational normal education in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, and an excellent teacher training plan of the Ministry of Education.
Guangdong Industrial Normal University, referred to as Guangzhou Normal University, is located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is a provincial-level public college approved by the Ministry of Education. Selected into the reform project of excellent teacher training plan and the promotion plan of Guangdong characteristic universities. It is the first batch of pilot universities in the transformation of ordinary undergraduate courses in Guangdong Province, the national key vocational education teacher training base, the national college students' cultural quality education base, the national skilled personnel training college and the vocational education teacher training center of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. The school, formerly known as Guangdong University for Nationalities, was founded in 1957 and renamed Guangdong Vocational and Technical Teachers College in 1998. In 2002, it was renamed Guangdong Technical Teachers College, and the former Guangdong Mechanical School was merged into the school. In 2005, the former Guangdong Economic Management Cadre College and Guangdong Finance and Trade Management Cadre College were merged into the school; 20 18 was renamed Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University. In June 2020, Heyuan Campus of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University officially opened.