When the Entry on Duty information form the employee provides after the completion of all necessary engagement procedures is received, the Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) will accordingly make proper arrangements for reception of our new international staff. All new employees should make sure that information offered, especially about the flight No., departure and arrival airport and time, is complete and correct. When it happens that the schedule has to be changed, the employee is strongly requested to inform us of the change timely and appropriately.

    On the day of arrival, the FAO staff shall meet and pick up the newcomer at the Zhanjiang Airport or another given transportation station in Zhanjiang. It is expected that the new employee remembers the mobile phone number of at least one of the FAO staffs and carries a workable cell phone of his/her own in case something unexpected should occur.
If it is too late for the newcomer to get settled in the apartment on campus, he or she may have to stay at a hotel or GDOU Hotel for one night. Fees for the hotel room and meals only are paid by the university.

    We provide each international staff with a rent-free apartment of one living room, one bedroom, one study, one kitchen, one bathroom, and a terrace. The apartment is equipped with all necessary furniture, electric household appliances, daily livelihood facilities, a coffer, telephone, campus internet port, etc. The computer, bicycle, camera, DVD player and so on are optional items to be bought or rented by the apartment tenant. Bed(s) and other articles for the family member(s) are also in the charge of the international staff.

    Right on moving into the apartment, the tenant or roomer is supposed to check and examine the apartment against the apartment inventory with the FAO officer who takes you to your apartment. If differences from the contents on the inventory and problems with or damages to any of the facilities are found, please don’t hesitate to point them out to the officer. After the checkup, the inventory is to be signed by both parties and each party keeps one copy till the roomer moves out. Please be careful not to damage or lose anything in the apartment. When damages and losses occur, corresponding compensation shall be made and penalty may be paid.

    Two days after settlement, the electricity and water meters shall be read by the administration department of the university. The FAO officer will make the arrangement and help you to keep a record. The monthly bills shall be paid by deducting the amount of charge from your salary for the following month.

    When something fails to work properly and needs repairing, please call Mrs. Helen Zhang for help and email her your request and statements. Please note that you are to pay all the cost for the repair if the damage is found to be done deliberately or out of improper use.

    Please take good care of all your belongings and property. The university shall take no responsibility for such a loss, although we will assist you in the finding when such an unhappy event takes place.

    No pets or poultry are allowed in the apartment and around the apartment building.

    Your visitors, including the students and the staff of the university, should register with the apartment officer and leave your apartment by 11 am and 22:30 pm. The apartment officer has the right to enquire and warn you in case of a violation. If you keep any of your visitors at your apartment for the night without asking permission from the FAO, you will risk being fired and pay a fine of RMB 500 to 2,000 yuan.

    On such unusual or suspicious occasions as emergency, water leakage, smoke, gas leakage, strange sound, etc., the FAO staff and the apartment officer may enter the apartment for inspection and handling if nobody answers the door.

    Right after all the procedures mentioned above have been conducted, new employees are requested to download the Incumbent International Staff Information Form at this website in the Download page, and to fill out the form clearly and precisely. After completion of the form, you may hand it over to the Section for International Staff and Students Affairs or email it to fao@gdou.edu.cn

    In order that new employees can know more about our university, the city, the people and ways of life here in Zhanjiang and the collegial community, we will take all new staffs on a campus tour and show them around part of the city, so that they can get familiar with the academic environment and the secular community where they will work and live in a way of combining local Chinese culture and their own culture. Apart from the introduction of the laws of our country and local governments and the regulations and work system of our university, we will hold a dinner party to welcome new arrivals, in which some incumbent foreign staffs will be invited to participate, so that our newcomers can gain useful information and appropriate support from our old friends and they can get to know one another and make friends.

    After the orientation, new employees will be officially introduced to leaders and academic staff with the Faculty for which they will work for. The international governor of the Faculty will make a general introduction to the Faculty, including the work system and regulations, teaching, research, academic programs, staff and students, curricula, etc. Following the introduction, new international staff shall be requested to introduce himself or herself and brief his or her academic interest, work plan and requirements. Then concrete and specific job duties will be designated based on mutual understanding and benefit. Yet, in case of difficulty in certain aspects of work assignment, employees are supposed to take a positive attitude towards the assignment, accept it and conduct it with as great effort as possible, as stipulated in the contract.