The Chinese Educational Base of Guangdong Province is a foreign-related public educational institution under the leadership of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the people's government of Guangdong Province. The base is founded using the resources of Guangdong Overseas Chinese Vocational School and operated under the direction of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province. It is now qualified in enrolling overseas students (Approval document: Guangdong Foreign Teaching [2000] No. 7). Since its foundation in 1979, the base has always been in the field of vocational education and Chinese education, upholding the tenet of “Putting people first, serving overseas Chinese” and adhering to the school-running policy of “building a famous school with distinctive characters”. Under the leadership of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Guangdong Province and with the support of the Overseas Exchange Association of Guangdong Province, the school has hosted students and visitors from more than ten countries in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe, South America, Australia, and those from China’s Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Districts. It also holds teachers’ classes, dancing classes, and summer/winter camps for overseas visitors. The Chinese Educational Base of Guangdong Province is a comprehensive school dedicated mainly to provide Chinese language education and vocational technique training for foreigners and Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao and other regions and to promote cultural exchange and cooperation between China and other countries.

The Base practices small-class teaching, and experienced full-time teachers are ready to carry out teaching according to students’ different Chinese levels, personalities and potentialities. The school puts great emphasis on absorbing new education ideas and innovation. “Student Foremost” and “Learning with Fun” are actively promoted, which contribute a lot to developing students’ interest in study, their creative abilities and cooperative spirit. Technique skill training and teaching results are in the spot light. The base has 26 laboratories, more than 10 multimedia classrooms, language labs; and Chinese classes for overseas students are all equipped with multimedia devices. The school is also a state-level and provincial-level centre for several kinds of professional trainings and examinations.

The base is located in Tianhe district, a district renowned for its culture and education in Guangzhou. Guangzhou, which known as the southern gateway to China, is the political, economic, scientific, educational and cultural centre of Guangdong Province; it is in the vicinity of Hong Kong and Macau, and a transportation and communication hub in South China; it is also an international metropolis of historical importance marching to modernization with giant strides. The Chinese Import & Export Commodity Fair (Canton Fair), which has a history of fifty years and is held twice a year in Guangzhou, one in spring and the other in autumn, is China’s largest comprehensive international trade fair of the longest history, of the highest level, of the most complete varieties and of the largest attendance and business turnover. Around the base, there are more than ten universities, colleges and schools, which fill this area with cultural atmosphere. With a network of free highways in its territory, the school is provided with convenient transportation. It takes only 30 minutes and 10 minutes by drive from the base to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and downtown respectively. Lying in Longdong Forest Park, the base boasts large patches of greens, singing birds, fragrant flowers, quiet and elegant environment, and it is really a place blessed with geomantic omen. The perfect combination of natural environment and human environment makes the school not only an ideal place to inherit Chinese culture and spread Chinese civilization, but also a convenient place for overseas students to appreciate quickly the practical and economic value of Chinese language.