Baotou Vocational and Technical College is located in the hinterland of the Yellow Economic Belt and Baotou, the steel city of grassland. It is a full-time public higher vocational college with a 65-year history of running a school. It is a national exemplary higher vocational college and a national high-quality junior vocational college. . The school was founded in 1956, and its predecessor was Baotou Machinery Industry School, a national key technical secondary school. In the national "First Five-Year Plan" layout, the school, together with Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group, Northern Heavy Industry Group, and China Weaponry Fifty-two Research Institute, jointly established a well-known national weapons production, education and research integrated base. In 1998, the school was upgraded and established and became one of the first 14 higher vocational and technical colleges independently established in the country. In 1999, it was transferred to the former Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In 2006, it was transferred to Baotou City People's Government. In 2009, Baotou Workers College was merged into the restructuring system, and the school-running pattern was basically stable.
The school occupies an area of 733,600 square meters, has a total fixed assets of 738 million yuan, and has 187 on-campus training bases. There are 11 teaching departments, 48 enrollment majors, and 10 professional groups, which are closely connected to the pillar industries and strategic emerging industries of the autonomous region and Baotou. The majors involve 7 disciplines including engineering, literature, management, economics, education, art, and medicine. It has formed a professional layout of two-wheel drive and coordinated development with engineering as the traditional advantage, modern equipment manufacturing majors and modern service majors. It has 6 national-level backbone (key) majors, 4 autonomous region-level key majors, 17 autonomous regional brand majors, 2 national machinery industry skilled personnel training specialty majors, and national machinery industry high-quality skilled personnel training innovative construction pilot majors. 6 majors pilot undergraduate courses.
There are now 9,505 full-time students, and the one-time employment rate in the past five years has exceeded 95%. There are 516 full-time teachers, including 26 famous teachers and rookies at the autonomous region level, 3 grassland talents in the autonomous region, 11 talents in Lucheng, 1 craftsman in Baotou, 26 model workers and May 1st labor medalists at the municipal level and 22 technical experts at the municipal level and above. People. Among the full-time teachers, 42.2% are associate professors or above, 62% are teachers with master's degree or above, and 70.35% are teachers with "dual quality". It has 9 skilled masters above the municipal level (1 at the national level) and 8 skilled master studios above the municipal level. It is a national "dual-qualified" teacher training base recognized by the Ministry of Education. There are 15 excellent teaching teams at the autonomous region level and 1 grassland talent engineering team in the autonomous region. In 2019, in the National Vocational College Teaching Ability Competition, the total number of awards ranked first in the country's higher vocational colleges.
The school adheres to the integration of production and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and establishes stable cooperative relations with more than 160 enterprises above designated size. 6 professional groups have established school-enterprise cooperation alliances, and 21 majors carry out modern apprenticeship and "1+X" certificate pilots. The 48 professional talent training programs are all jointly formulated by school-enterprise cooperation, and the proportion of practical teaching hours in the total class hours has reached 62.98%.
Over the past 65 years of running the school, it has trained and delivered nearly 70,000 talents to the society, especially in the equipment manufacturing industry, with a large number and outstanding performance. Taking the "Numerical Control Technology" major as an example, the school has trained technical experts, labor models, and craftsmen above the city level for more than 20 years. There are more than 110 people, including 1 winner of the Chinese Skills Award, 2 national skill masters, 6 national technical experts, 2 provincial skill masters, 32 technical experts, 11 "Northern Xinjiang Craftsmen" and "Hebei Craftsmen". Based on the distinctive characteristics of the school's craftsmanship training, the Baotou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government established the "Baotou Craftsman College" in the school in 2019.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the school has been deeply involved in major reforms and developments in the field of vocational education, and has successively undertaken innovative development action plans of the Ministry of Education and other national ministries, production and education integration projects, internal quality diagnosis and reform, construction of national professional resource banks, and modern apprenticeship pilots , 1+X certificate pilot, online open course construction and other 8 major teaching reform projects, and passed the acceptance. Great progress has been made in teaching, scientific research and social services, and has won a number of autonomous region-level teaching achievement awards and the "Government Quality Award" of Baotou City. Founded two publicly issued academic journals, "Journal of Baotou Vocational and Technical College" and "Journal of Vocational University".
The school continuously promotes cultural inheritance and innovation, actively explores the expression of the core socialist values, and builds a campus culture system with military culture as the backbone and craftsman culture on the basis of inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and the effectiveness of cultural education Remarkably, the Ordnance Industry Cultural Education Exhibition Hall has been identified as the "Baotou City Patriotic Education Base", and many cultural research results have won national and autonomous regional awards. The school won the honorary title of "Civilized Unit of Autonomous Region" and "Civilized Unit of National Machinery Industry".
Standing at a new historical starting point, the contractors are shouldering new social responsibilities and historical missions, adhering to the school motto of “Unity, Diligence, Practicality, and Dedication”, insisting on the foundation of morality and building of people, and the core of connotation construction. In the new concept and new pattern of the times, seize new opportunities and show new achievements, strive for new breakthroughs in the construction of "double high", and strive to move towards an undergraduate-level vocational and technical university!