At present, Marxism College of SZU is home to  1 provincial research base, 1 municipal level research base and 4 universitylevel research institutes(centers).

1. Immigration Culture Research Center: a provincial research base of Guangdong local culture

As one of the first batch of local culture research bases of Guangdong Province, which are approved in 2012, the Immigration Culture Research Center is now a transdisciplinary, stable research group with a clear sense of direction. Recently the center has gained notable research achievements including 12 national projects about immigration culture and 4 of provincial/ministry level, more than 60 published academic journal papers, 9 published academic works and several awards of provincial/ministry level.

2. Shenzhen International Development Strategy Research Center: a research base co-founded by Foreign Affair Office of Shenzhen Municipal Government and Shenzhen University.

Centering on Shenzhen’s development planning of internationalization, the center aims to explore specific paths and to draw up comprehensive strategies for Shenzhen development. Taking full advantages of the resources provided by the Foreign Affair Office of Shenzhen and the university, the center will become a think tank of Shenzhen and take an active part in serving  the construction of a modern and international advanced city.

3. Moral Culture Research Institute of Shenzhen University

This institute mainly studies reform and opening up and moral education of Shenzhen SEZ”. It currently has an academic echelon comprising master supervisors, teaching and researching staff and graduate students. Since the establishment of the institute in 2000, it has undertaken 10 research projects including 3 national level ones, 3 provincial/ministry level ones, 2 municipal-level ones and 2 from Association for Higher Education.

4. Deng Xiaoping Theory Research Center of Shenzhen University

The research field of this center is “socialism with Chinese characteristicsand the practice of Shenzhen SEZ”, which covers aspects of contemporary socialism, socialist institutions and the development of socialist movement, consisting of both fundamental and practical researches. The center has undertaken 9 research projects including 3 national level ones, 6 provincial/ministry level ones and 1 municipal-level project.

5. Philosophy and Social Science Research Institute of Shenzhen University

This institute mainly studies socialist ideology and scientific thought of development and it has a strong research group consisting of professors, associate professors, assistant professors and postgraduates. The institute has undertaken 1 national project, 4 provincial/ministry projects and 1 municipal-level project.

6. Chinese System Philosophy Research Center of Shenzhen University

This center aims to promote system philosophy and the thoughts of system theory. Cooperating with Professor Wu Jie, the center publishes Journal of System Scienceand is in charge of collecting and editing the articles. In addition, the center joined actively in the organization of important conferences of Chinese Association of System Science. At present, the center has undertaken 8 university-level research projects.