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Zhejiang Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Commerce is one of the first four full-time public higher vocational colleges approved by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government. Its predecessor was the "Ningbo Public Class A Commercial School" founded in 1914. The school is now a high-level vocational school construction unit in Zhejiang Province, an excellent school for the evaluation of the national vocational and technical personnel training work level, a demonstration vocational college in Zhejiang Province, and a high-quality vocational college in Zhejiang Province. In the 2021 GDI Higher Vocational College Rankings TOP1000 list, the school ranks 54th in the country and 8th in the province.
The main campus of the school is located in Ningbo, a famous commercial city in China and a modern international port city, with convenient transportation and obvious location advantages. It is 15 minutes drive from the city center, 10 minutes drive from the railway station, 15 minutes drive from the airport, and covers an area of 958 acres. Among them, the headquarters is 401 acres, the Ninghai campus is 150 acres, and the Cixi campus is 407 acres. The total value of teaching equipment is 220 million yuan, the construction area of the training base is 50,500 square meters, and the library has more than 2.03 million books. At present, the school has more than 12,000 full-time students and more than 5,500 adult students. There are 623 faculty members, including 438 teachers, 170 teachers with associate titles and above, 87.44% of teachers with "dual qualifications", and 325 teachers with master's degree or above.
The school now has 7 secondary colleges, including the School of Economics and Management, the School of E-commerce, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the School of International Exchange, the School of Architecture and Art, the School of Electronic Information, and the School of Mindfulness. There are 3 independent scientific research institutions including the Regional Development Research Center (Journal Editorial Department), the Mould Engineering Center, and the Intelligent Home Appliance Engineering Center. There are 29 majors in total, including 4 national-level backbone majors, 12 provincial-level specialty majors, and 4 provincial-level superior majors , 7 municipal key majors; 8 national quality (resource sharing) courses, 19 provincial quality courses, 1 national quality online open course, 3 provincial quality online open courses; 3 central financial support The school’s training bases and three provincial-level demonstration training bases; in March 2021, the school’s mold design and manufacturing, and applied electronic technology majors formally passed the "Sydney Accord" (TAC-AD) certification; the school is now There are three provincial and municipal scientific research platforms, the National Home Appliance Mold Engineering Technology Research Center Ningbo Branch, Zhejiang Province Molded Product Surface Decoration and Intelligent Molding Technology Collaborative Innovation Center, and Ningbo Smart Home Appliances Key Laboratory, one Ningbo Industrial Characteristic College, and one Ningbo Pilot Characteristic College, Ninghai Industry-University-Research Base won the "China Mould Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Demonstration Base"; 2 provincial new century "151" talents, 1 provincial-level young social science scholar, 3 provincial-level university teaching teams, 14 provincial-level professional leaders, 2 provincial teaching teachers, 4 provincial education rookies, 1 Ningbo expert with outstanding contribution, 10 Ningbo leaders and top talents.
The school has been approved for 9 national achievements including the national teacher training base, the national skill master studio, and the national vocational education teacher teaching innovation team. The teacher teaching skills competition has won 2 national awards and the second prize of national teaching achievements. 1 item, 1 provincial third prize for scientific and technological progress, 4 first prizes for provincial teaching achievement, 3 second prizes for provincial teaching achievement, 6 first prizes for municipal teaching achievement, and 7 new national awards for student competition. The province's "five batches" and "double innovation base" evaluations have been approved. At the same time, the school is one of the first batch of national vocational skills appraisal institutes in Zhejiang Province, and the first batch of national electronic information industry talent training bases in Zhejiang Province. Through construction, the school's characteristics and talent training have won a wide range of social reputation and high recognition. In 2008, it won the second prize of Ningbo Education Service Economic Contribution Award, in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2019. Won the "China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Award" five times, and the "China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award" and "China School-Enterprise Cooperation Good Case" in 2016.
For a hundred years, the school has adhered to the school motto of "Honesty, Career, Wisdom, and Dedication", adhered to the school-running ideas of "Quality-based schools, service-based schools, management-promoting schools, and strong schools with characteristics" and "teacher-based, student-oriented". The philosophy of running a school is guided by the business spirit of “love the country, love the school, unswerving educational feelings; pursue arduous entrepreneurship, pioneering and innovative spirit; respect teachers, value education, and teacher-student-oriented school-running purpose”, and gradually form the “inheritance”. The school-running characteristics of “Ningbo's business gang spirit, nurturing modern business gang talents”.
In the process of running a school, the school makes use of a good international and domestic environment to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with domestic and foreign enterprises, schools and governments, and explore and practice the county-school cooperation model of "headquarters-base" running schools, and schools that combine "points, lines, and areas". The enterprise cooperation model and the "four combinations" talent training model have achieved remarkable results in education and teaching reform and connotation construction. The school takes industry-university-research cooperative education as a breakthrough, and continuously promotes multi-level and multi-channel cooperation in running schools. Carry out "point-to-point" cooperation with leading and key enterprises by order training, entering factories to build offices, and introducing factories into schools. For example, in cooperation with GE in the United States, the province's first automation system integration engineer training center and skills have been built in the school Accreditation center; through the introduction of associations (societies) into the school, in-depth cooperation with the school association, etc., and the industry associations (societies) to carry out "point-to-line" cooperation, there have been 6 associations and societies set up in the school, including Ningbo Industrial Design Society, and Ningbo Mould Industry Association and many other associations have established in-depth cooperative relations; developed "county (city) school cooperation" with Ninghai, Cixi, Yinzhou, Haishu and other places, and successively built two production, education and research bases in Ninghai and Cixi, forming " The school-running pattern of “one body and two wings”. Relying on the "headquarters-base" county-school cooperation model formed by the Ninghai Industry-University-Research Base, creatively expand the connotation of industry-university-research cooperation to include talent training, technological upgrading, service to society, and cultural guidance. The coordinated development path of the combination of vocational education and research has achieved a win-win situation for schools, enterprises, governments and districts. It has been evaluated by the media such as China Youth Daily and Guangming Daily as the "Ninghai Mode of Higher Vocational Education in China" and " Become a model for experts and scholars to interpret the county-school cooperation model of higher vocational colleges." The school cooperated with the Cixi Municipal People's Government to establish an industrial college, Cixi College, which is adapted to the economic development and social needs of Yu-Ci area. As a further exploration of school-government-school-enterprise cooperation, the college will combine the characteristics and advantages of Cixi's industry and the corresponding talent needs to set up a corresponding professional group to promote the development of vocational education in Cixi, through in-depth docking with the characteristics and advantageous industries of the Yu-Ci Economic Belt , To promote the upgrading of Yu Ci's industrial structure.
The school is the first batch of higher vocational colleges in Zhejiang Province that has been approved by the Ministry of Education to carry out Sino-foreign cooperative education programs. In 2002, it organized a Sino-Australian cooperative education project with Holmesglen College of Australia, established a branch of Holmesglen College and an international vocational teacher training center, and introduced the TAFE education model. The school won the "Best Overseas Teaching Achievement Award" and the "Excellent Management Award" issued by Australia; the Sino-Australian Cooperation International Business Program was rated as the first batch of demonstration Sino-foreign cooperative education projects in the province. The Sino-Australian Cooperation International Business Major and the Sino-Australian Cooperation Accounting Major have successively passed the certification of the China-Foreign Cooperation Education Quality Committee of the China Education International Exchange Association. The school has also signed cooperation agreements with educational institutions in 28 countries and regions to carry out exchanges and cooperation abroad.
In the future, the school will fully focus on the fundamental task of "cultivating people with morality" in order to cultivate "technical and technical talents with necessary professional knowledge and strong practical ability, with strong adaptability, teamwork ability, independent learning ability and innovation. Lifelong learners with entrepreneurial consciousness, responsible citizens with professionalism and comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, and labor" as the educational goal, take the initiative to serve the regional economic development and industrial structure adjustment of Zhejiang and Ningbo, and further strengthen school-local cooperation, production and education Integration, deepening the high-quality development strategy, coordinating and advancing the "14th Five-Year Plan", accelerating the development of connotation, continuously improving the school governance level and governance capabilities, and promoting the school's overall school running level to a new level, in order to build the school with distinctive characteristics and the forefront of the province , Work hard for the well-known domestic higher vocational colleges!