Xi'an Railway Vocational and Technical College

Xi'an Railway Vocational and Technical College is a full-time general higher vocational college sponsored by the Xi'an Municipal People's Government. It is a model higher vocational college in Shaanxi Province, a national high-quality higher vocational college construction unit, and a first-class higher vocational college construction unit in Shaanxi Province. The school was founded in 1956 by the merger of Xi’an Railway Transport School and Xi’an Railway Transport Workers’ University under the former Ministry of Railways.

The school is located in Xi’an International Port District. It has three campuses: Gangwu Campus (Headquarters), Ziqiang Campus, and Lintong Campus. It covers an area of more than 700 acres, with a building area of 330,000 square meters and fixed assets of 1 billion yuan.

The school adheres to the school motto of "Shang Morality, Code, Strong Ability, Perseverance" and the school-running philosophy of "Running a school is not derailed, and educating people not deviating from the way", closely relying on the industry, serving the regional economy, insisting on establishing a school with characteristics and strengthening the school with talents, and exerts it for 60 years The accumulation of schooling in the rail transit industry has formed majors and professional groups covering two major industries: railway transportation and urban rail transit. The majors are power technology, civil engineering, equipment manufacturing, and electronic information. Supplementary professional group. The school passed the evaluation of talent training by the Ministry of Education in 2009 and became an outstanding model higher vocational college in Shaanxi Province in 2014.

The school recruits students from all over the country, with more than 12,000 full-time students. Currently, there are the School of Transportation, the School of Electronic Information, the School of Electrical Engineering, the School of Traction Power, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the School of Civil Engineering, as well as the Basic Department, the Department of Ideological, Political, and Educational Sciences, and the International Transportation College (Xi'an Railway Vocational and Technical College and Emperor Alexander I of Saint Petersburg, Russia Jiaotong University develops international cooperative education institutions), continuing education colleges, and other 10 teaching colleges, offering a total of 37 higher vocational majors, including 6 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform and construction projects, 9 provincial-level key majors, and provincial-level demonstration projects. 4 training bases; 2 training bases supported by the central finance, and 1 project to enhance the development capacity of professional service industries supported by the central finance.

There are more than 680 faculty members, including 202 full-time teachers with master's and doctorate degrees, more than 170 professors and associate professors, and more than 270 dual-qualified teachers. At present, there are 1 outstanding contribution expert who enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council, 1 national outstanding teacher, 4 famous teachers in ordinary colleges and universities in Shaanxi Province, and 11 deputy directors or members of the National Guiding Committee. In addition, there are more than 200 first-line professional and technical personnel hired by Xi'an Railway Bureau and other enterprises as part-time teachers.

The school closely follows the rail transit industry, takes the school-enterprise cooperation and the combination of work and learning as the entry point, and implements the talent training model of order training and work-study alternation (2 years of basic theoretical study + 1 year of internship), forming a talent training model with track A practical teaching system with characteristics of transportation. There are 105 on-campus training bases for urban rails, rolling stock, etc., and 98 off-campus practice bases in Xi’an Railway Bureau, Xi’an Metro Corporation and other enterprises. The college is one of the first colleges in the country to implement a vocational qualification certificate system, and the rate of obtaining “dual certificates” for graduates is over 80%. Students have participated in the National Vocational College Skills Competition and other professional skills competitions at all levels and have won more than 200 provincial and ministerial awards.

The school actively serves industry enterprises and regional economic construction. It is a training base for urban rail transit talents in Xi'an, a public training base for electronic technology in Xi'an vocational education, a locomotive driver training base for the Ministry of Railways, a national local railway talent training base, and Xi'an cadre training The education base, combined with dozens of rail transit companies, led the establishment of the Xi'an Rail Transit Vocational Education Group. The school actively plays the role of the above "one group, five bases", and trains more than 4,000 employees of all levels and types for the society, government departments, and industry enterprises. It has established long-term cooperative relations with more than 70 railway units and large enterprises across the country. It is a joint unit of Xi'an Railway Bureau, Zhengzhou Railway Bureau, Xi'an Metro Company, and a talent training base for Xi'an Metro Company, forming a smooth employment channel. Graduates are well received by enterprises. Order training has become the norm for employment. The employment rate has remained above 95% for the first time in 10 consecutive years. More than 85% of graduates are employed in railway, subway and other state-owned enterprises. It is an advanced unit of employment in Shaanxi Province. China Education News twice reported on the employment work of the college.

In recent years, the school has taken the opportunity of deepening school-enterprise cooperation to promote industry-university-research cooperation, enhance teachers' professional capabilities, and form a number of influential scientific research results. The “Electric Vehicle Reducer”, a scientific research project of the Ministry of Railways independently developed by the school, has obtained new product certificates issued by five ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Science and Technology, and is widely used in railway marshalling stations such as Xinxiang South Station and Tangshan North Station; Technical research projects such as "Research on Optimization of Transportation Organization of Railway Special Lines of Huangling Mining Group" and "Treatment Technology of Roadbed and Subgrade Fouling and Mud Emission" have passed the enterprise identification and put into use; the development of the "Station Attendant" and other question banks by the Ministry of Railways has been approved by the experts of the Ministry of Railways. As a national question bank, it is used by employees of the national railway transportation system for vocational skill appraisal and won the second prize of Shaanxi Province Teaching Achievement.

The school has successively won the "National Advanced Unit for Vocational and Technical Education" awarded by the five national ministries and commissions, the "National Advanced Unit for Railway Vocational and Technical Education" awarded by the Ministry of Railways, the "Advanced Collective for Employment of Graduates from Shaanxi Colleges and Universities", and "Educational Information Work in Shaanxi Province" Honorary titles such as "Advanced Collective", "Excellent Unit of the Communist Youth League of Shaanxi Province Colleges and Universities", and "Huang Yanpei Excellent School Award" have been named "Civilized Campus" and "Safe Campus" by the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government of the Communist Party of China. In the past three years, he has won 4 Shaanxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards and 1 third prize of the 7th National University Campus Cultural Construction Outstanding Achievement Award.

The school is the executive director unit of the Chinese Vocational Education Association, the deputy director unit of the Rail Transit Professional Committee of the Chinese Vocational and Technical Education Association, the deputy director unit of the Shaanxi Railway Society, and the secretary-general unit of the National Railway Workers Higher Education Research Association.

In the new stage of historical development, the college will take the construction of a modern vocational education system as a guide, accelerate the pace of education and teaching reform, improve the talent training system, and continuously improve the level of school running, towards the construction of "distinctive characteristics, demonstration in the province, industry-leading, and domestic first-class" The goal of higher vocational colleges is to forge ahead.