Center for Cantonese Merchants Research, the only Provincial Key Research Base on Cantonese Merchants studying in China, is the promoter and the permanent office of Institute for Guangdong Cantonese Merchants Research (Provincial Association) as well as an important support unit to the Guangdong International Strategic Studies (the highest Provincial Level Think Tank).

Under the guidance of the Center, there are "Chinese Business History Research", "Enterprise Internationalization and International Business Research", "Family Business and Entrepreneurship Research", "Great Pearl River Delta Regional Development Institute of Strategic Research" (jointly managed by the Center and the Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone), "Enterprise System and Corporate Governance Research", "Industrial Organization and Firm Theories Research".

By continuously exploration and accumulation, the Center gradually formed the researching characteristics of “finding the evolution law of Cantonese Merchants in modernization process, on the cultural background and management perspective”, and attempted construct native management theory system under the influence of compatible Ling-nan culture; it studied sustainable way to proper management by focusing on corporate control and risk management; and revealed the inheritance of Cantonese Merchants’ tradition and modernity by integrating economics and management thought history.

In the past three years, the center not only has published more than 50 influential papers in “Economic Research", "Management World", "Economics (Quarterly)", "China Industrial Economy" and other authoritative publications, but has undertaken more than 20 fund projects, such as the National Social Science Fund , the National Natural Science Fund, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund（Ministry of Education）,which means more than one million crosswise project funds annually. Moreover, it also published lots of monographs like "The Cantonese Merchants Research Series", "Enterprise Development Research Series", “Industrial Finance Essays”, etc.