Founded on September 29, 2024, the Tianjin University Global South Institute (天津大學全球南方研究院) is China’s first university-based research center dedicated to Global South studies. Housed within the School of Foreign Languages and led by Executive Director Professor Wang Zhan (王戰), the institute operates as a state-oriented think tank explicitly tasked with serving Chinese national strategy and advancing Beijing’s vision of a “community with a shared future for mankind.” It maintains four research centers focused on Francophone countries, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, East Asia, and the United States and India, and runs a multilingual public opinion monitoring and AI translation platform tracking political and social developments across Global South nations.