Leshan Vocational and Technical College is located between the world cultural and natural heritage of Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Emei. It is located on the bank of Qingyi River in Suji New District, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, a famous historical and cultural city. The college was established in April 2002 with the approval of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government. , Is a comprehensive full-time public general higher vocational college organized by the People's Government of Leshan City, including medicine and health, financial tourism, machinery and electronics, and new energy subjects. It has a history of 70 years.
The college is a model higher vocational school in Sichuan Province, a high-quality higher vocational school in Sichuan Province, the third batch of modern apprenticeship pilot schools of the Ministry of Education, a civilized campus school in Sichuan Province and a demonstration school in Sichuan Province governing schools by law. It is a "National High-skilled Talent Training Base", "Ministry of Education-ZTE ICT Industry Innovation Base", "National Western Tourism Specialized Talent Training Base", "The First Batch of High-skilled Talent Training Bases in Sichuan Province", and "Post-doctoral Innovation Practice Base" ", is the vice-chairman unit of the National School-running Model Research Association, the vice-chairman unit of the Sichuan Philosophy Society, the vice-chairman unit of the Sichuan Computer Society, the vice-chairman unit of the Sichuan Institute of Electronics, and the director of the Higher Vocational College Branch of the Sichuan Computer Society Long unit. It has successively won the honorary titles of the National Party Building Work Model Branch Cultivation and Founding Unit, the National Energy-saving Public Institution Demonstration Unit, the Sichuan Provincial Educational Advanced Collective, the Sichuan Civilized Unit, the Sichuan Civilized Campus, and the Chinese Higher Education Association Advanced Collective for International Student Education in China .
The college covers an area of 800 acres and currently has more than 600 faculty members, including 517 full-time teachers, 41 professors, and 145 associate professors. There are nearly 16,000 full-time students in the school. The college has the School of Marxism, the Department of New Energy Engineering, the Department of Finance and Management, the Department of Tourism, the Department of Art Design, the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the Department of Electronic Information Engineering, the Department of Nursing, the Department of Medicine, the Department of Pharmacy, the Department of Physical Education, and the Department of Basic Public Courses. There are 51 majors in liberal arts, sciences and engineering. Among them, nursing, silicon material preparation technology, and mobile communication technology are national backbone majors. The college has one directly affiliated hospital and three non-directly affiliated hospitals of Leshan City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Leshan City Geriatrics Specialty Hospital, and Leshan City Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
The college now has 1 national double-qualified teacher training and training base, 1 national production training base, 1 national high-skilled talent training base; 1 provincial-level high-quality vocational teacher training base, and provincial post-doctoral innovation practice 1 base, 2 provincial-level teachers' skill inheritance and innovation platforms, and 1 provincial-level skill master studio. It has 1 national-level vocational education teacher teaching innovation team, 1 provincial vocational education teacher teaching innovation team; Sichuan province academic and technical leaders, Sichuan province innovative talents and other provincial experts 13 people.
The college has internships, training rooms and training bases equipped with advanced instruments and equipment, the "Ministry of Education-ZTE ICT Industry Innovation" base with the most advanced technology and equipment in the domestic ICT industry, the first domestic "polysilicon simulation factory" and "Leshan Solar Energy Research Institute", "Leshan Pharmaceutical Research Center", "3D Printing Engineering Technology Center" scientific research base. There are "Modern Network Communication Training Center", "Automobile Inspection and Maintenance Training Center", "Polysilicon Ingot Production Training Center" and "Intelligent Transportation Training Center".
The college adheres to the strategy of "prospering the school through scientific research" and has achieved fruitful scientific research results. 3644 papers have been published, including 494 papers in core journals. 21 monographs have been published, 48 national patents have been approved, and 192 scientific research projects at the provincial level and above have been undertaken.
The college adheres to the school-running philosophy of "integration of resources, diversified cooperation, deep integration, and common development", and adheres to the road of connotative development and the combination of "industry, learning, and research". , Sichuan University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Southwest Medical University and other universities and research institutes have established long-term cooperative relations. It has established a good school-enterprise cooperation relationship with more than 170 well-known enterprises and institutions in and outside the province, such as the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, ZTE Corporation, China Hualu Group Co., Ltd., and Shenzhen Huawei Group.
The college actively carries out multi-level, wide-area, and multi-form international exchanges and cooperation, insists on the combination of "bringing in" and "going out", and successively cooperates with the United States, Finland, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Laos, 39 universities or institutions in Nepal and other countries as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan have established friendly and cooperative relations; introduced high-quality educational resources from the United States, Canada, Japan, Finland, Australia and other countries; and carried out exchanges and visits of teachers and students throughout the year and further study. Among the higher vocational colleges in Sichuan Province, the college first recruited foreign students with academic qualifications. Since 2011, it has recruited students from Thailand, Laos, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Turkey, Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia, and Angola. There are more than 500 international students, and there are currently 180 international students in the school. In 2014, the college was awarded the title of "Advanced Collective for Education of International Students in China" by the China Higher Education Association, and it has taken a brand new step in the field of international exchanges and cooperation.
The college’s enrollment number and graduate employment rate are among the top universities in the province. A group of nursing and electromechanical graduates work in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Japan and other countries and regions. The qualified rate of college graduates is over 90%, which is generally welcomed by employers.
Since the establishment of the college, it has successively trained and delivered more than 50,000 senior business and technical backbones and management talents in health, tourism, finance, marketing, machinery, electronics, new energy and other fields for the country, and trained enterprises and institutions in rural areas. There are more than 40,000 doctors, migrant workers, accountants, senior salesmen, and mechanical and electrical technicians, who have made positive contributions to local economic construction and social development.
In October 2017, the college moved into a new campus covering an area of 800 acres, with advanced design and complete functions, "green, smart, and safe", with a beautiful campus environment and advanced facilities and equipment. It has the first water-source heat pump air-conditioning system in colleges and universities in the province, the whole school is air-conditioned, and the student dormitory provides 24-hour hot water. The student dormitory is equipped with 6-bed rooms and separate toilets.
Based on a new starting point, the college will continue to forge ahead, continue to deepen the reform of the system and mechanism, and further enhance the college's comprehensive school-running strength, talent training level, scientific and technological development capabilities and social service capabilities, start a new journey, build a first-class campus, and implement first-class management. Cultivate first-class talents and realize a new leap in the college.