Sun Yat-sen University. The emblem of Sun Yat-sen University is green. SunYat-senUniversity (CUHK for short), located in Shenzhen, directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), is a comprehensive national key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Guangdong Province, ranking among the first batch of national "double-class" A-class and 985 projects.