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Zhongshan Torch Vocational and Technical College

Zhongshan Torch Vocational and Technical College was founded in April 2004 and was nurtured in the "National Torch Plan". It was organized by the Zhongshan Municipal People’s Government and entrusted to be managed by the Zhongshan Torch High-tech Industrial Development Zone. It is the first public higher vocational college founded by Zhongshan City. The school is also one of 131 nationally, one of the 10 in Guangdong Province, and the only one in Zhongshan City that integrates a national demonstration (backbone) higher vocational college, a national high-quality junior vocational college, and a national "double high plan" construction college. "Grand Slam" school in China's higher vocational schools. The school has always adhered to the school-running positioning of "based on the park, serving Zhongshan, and facing the Greater Bay Area", adhering to the school motto of "dedication, ambition, precision, and innovation", and insisting on the school philosophy of "high, innovative, special, and sophisticated". The school-running characteristics of “integration of courtyards and gardens” have constructed the “Zhongshan Torch Mode” of higher vocational education. It is one of the few "park universities" in the country that has no "walls", and it is also the only higher vocational college in the province that runs schools in the "park model".


The school currently has more than 9,300 full-time students and 434 faculty members, including 34 doctors, 296 masters, 148 senior titles, 1 special allowance from the State Council, 8 leading talents in higher vocational education in Guangdong Province, The “Hundred Ten Talent Training Project” includes 2 provincial-level training targets, 6 outstanding young teachers in the Guangdong Provincial Colleges and Universities Excellent Young Teacher Training Program, 4 technical experts in Guangdong Province, and 5 outstanding teachers (educators) in Nanyue. 3 provincial skill master studios.


——Excellent conditions for running a school


The school is located in the hinterland of the Zhongshan Torch High-tech Industrial Development Zone, a comprehensive transportation hub on the west bank of the Pearl River and the geometric center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The above scientific research institutions and R&D centers are naturally clustered together. The school insists on building majors on the industrial chain, using the entire park as the implementation space for talent training, and gradually extending the tentacles of the college's "academic-park integration" to the emerging industry belt of Zhongshan. The school-enterprise united to build a productive training campus with a deep integration of production and education, and established a multi-party joint school running mechanism of "government, school, enterprise, and industry".


——Remarkable teaching results


The school connects with the new-generation information technology, health medicine, high-end equipment intelligent manufacturing and other emerging leading industry clusters in Zhongshan City to form 6 professional groups and 23 majors. It has 4 national key majors, 4 backbone majors, and 2 central financial support development majors. 15 pilot projects for the 1+X certificate system of the Ministry of Education, 6 pilot programs for the modern apprenticeship system of the Ministry of Education, 7 pilot programs for the modern apprenticeship system in Guangdong Province, 1 key major in Guangdong Province, 8 brand major programs in Guangdong Province, and undergraduate collaborative education in higher vocational education There are 15 pilot majors, 10 pilot majors for the reform of enrollment training and reform of secondary and higher vocational education, and 1 professional teaching standard for higher vocational education in Guangdong Province. Presides over 14 courses in the National Vocational Education Professional Teaching Resource Database, and has 17 excellent open courses in Guangdong Province. It has 3 national-level productive training bases, 1 national-level dual teacher training base, 7 provincial-level professional training bases, 3 provincial-level public training centers, and 7 provincial-level off-campus practice teaching bases for college students. It owns the "South China Vocational Education Industry-University-Research Cooperation Experimental Base" jointly built by the provinces and cities. Won 2 second prizes of National Vocational Education Teaching Achievement, 3 first prizes and 4 second prizes of Guangdong Vocational Education Teaching Achievement.


——Outstanding results in talent training


Since its establishment, the school has trained nearly 30,000 students. The average employment rate of graduates of the school over the years is as high as 99.37%, which is higher than the average employment rate of higher vocational colleges in the province. More than 70% of graduates are employed in the Greater Bay Area, making important contributions to regional economic development and industrial transformation and upgrading. The number and quality of awards for students in various skill competitions at all levels are increasing. In recent years, it has won more than 200 national awards and more than 300 provincial and ministerial awards. The school attaches great importance to innovation and entrepreneurship education, establishes a student entrepreneurship incubation base on campus, and establishes a torch crowd-creation center to improve students' entrepreneurial ability and guide students on the road of independent entrepreneurship. A large number of entrepreneurial elites have emerged among school graduates.


——Achievements in running a school


Since the establishment of the school, the school has always adhered to the overall leadership of the party committee over the work of the school, adheres to the socialist direction of running the school, firmly grasps the context of China's higher vocational education reform and development, and implements the fundamental task of Lide Shuren, with professional (group) construction as the core , With the focus on the construction of the teaching staff and the construction of basic capacity as the starting point, continue to promote the reform of education and teaching, and have successively become the national exemplary (backbone) higher vocational colleges (200 in the country, one of the 11 in Guangdong Province, and the only in Zhongshan City) , National high-quality junior vocational colleges (200 nationwide, one of 14 in Guangdong Province), national "Double High Plan" construction unit (197 nationwide, one of 14 in Guangdong Province, the only one in Zhongshan). Successfully approved as a national vocational education system and mechanism reform exploration pilot unit, a modern apprenticeship pilot unit of the Ministry of Education, a 1+X certificate system pilot institution, an advanced collective of vocational education in Guangdong, an advanced collective of adult education in Guangdong, and an advanced employment work in Guangdong The unit, the Ministry of Education and the first batch of independent enrollment colleges and universities of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, the standing director unit of the China Packaging Federation, the deputy director unit of the National Vocational Education Packaging Teaching Steering Committee, and the vice chairman unit of the Sino-German Vocational Education Alliance. The school’s social recognition, reputation and influence continue to rise.