Nantong Vocational University (Nantong Vocational University) started its operation in 1973. It is located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, the "first modern city in China" where the river and the sea meet. In 1983, it was approved by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and registered by the Ministry of Education to run a comprehensive full-time general college. It is one of the first public higher vocational colleges in the country. The school fully implements Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, upholds the school motto of "Virtue and Aspiration, Studying Things to Gain Knowledge", promotes the school-running philosophy of Mr. Zhang Jian, a modern industrialist and educator, that "learning must be expected to be used, and use must be suitable for the place", adheres to "rooting in Nantong and serving Nantong", implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and strives to move forward. Over the past half century, it has trained more than 90,000 high-quality technical and skilled talents for local economic and social development. The school is a high-level professional group construction unit of the national "Double High Plan", an excellent college for talent training in higher vocational colleges across the country, an advanced grassroots party organization in Jiangsu Province, a high-level higher vocational college construction unit in Jiangsu Province, a demonstrative higher vocational college in Jiangsu Province, an advanced collective of vocational education in Jiangsu Province, a civilized campus in Jiangsu Province, an advanced collective of ideological and political education in colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, and a demonstrative college for safe campus construction in Jiangsu Province. The school's Youth League Committee was awarded the "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee". There are two campuses in Chongchuan and Haimen, with 12 colleges including mechanical engineering, electronic information engineering, pharmaceutical and environmental engineering, construction engineering, automobile and transportation engineering, art design, economic management, international cooperation education (foreign languages), technicians, Haimen, continuing education, and Marxism. The total campus area is more than 1,000 acres, with a construction area of more than 400,000 square meters. There are more than 800 faculty and staff and nearly 18,000 students at all levels and types. Enrollment is open to 14 provinces including Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shandong, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hebei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Gansu. The professional construction is precisely connected with the development of regional industries, forming a professional pattern of "focusing on industry, literature, management and art". There are more than 50 majors, including 1 national "double high plan" professional group, 5 national backbone majors, 5 national key majors, 1 provincial government project brand major, 4 provincial high-level backbone majors, 4 provincial key professional groups, 9 provincial brand (characteristic) majors, and 4 provincial demonstration construction key majors (groups). It has 1 national vocational education professional teaching resource library, 2 national quality courses, 2 national quality resource sharing courses, 10 provincial online open courses, 11 national planning textbooks, 41 provincial quality (key) textbooks, 3 national training bases, 2 Ministry of Education industry-education integration training bases, 1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center, 2 provincial skill master studios, and 1 provincial "double teacher" famous teacher studio; 1 national first prize for teaching achievements, 1 provincial special prize for teaching achievements, 3 first prizes, and 6 second prizes. The school vigorously implements the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents" and has built a team of "double-qualified" teachers with good teacher ethics and strong quality. In 2019 and 2020, it won the first prize in the National Vocational College Teachers' Teaching Ability Competition for two consecutive years. There are 511 full-time teachers, of which the proportion of full and associate professors reached 51.58%, the proportion of young teachers with master's and doctoral degrees reached 83.73%, and "double-qualified" teachers accounted for 89.65%. There is 1 national outstanding teacher; 1 winner of the National May 1st Model Worker Medal, 3 national technical experts, 2 experts with special allowances from the State Council, 2 provincial vocational education teacher teaching innovation teams, 3 provincial Qinglan Project excellent teaching teams, 15 provincial industrial professors, 9 provincial teaching masters, 3 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in the province, 3 Jiangsu craftsmen, 1 Jiangsu master craftsman, 2 high-level talents of the provincial "Six Talent Peaks", 12 provincial "333 Project" training targets, and 48 young and middle-aged academic leaders and outstanding young backbone teachers of the provincial "Qinglan Project". The school has been deeply promoting the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and the integration of science and education. It is one of the first pilot units of the modern apprenticeship system of the Ministry of Education. The school has pioneered the concept of "major and industry, curriculum and position, classroom and workshop, scientific research and production, internship and employment, training and type of work, teacher and master, principal and factory director", and actively promoted the construction of industrial colleges. It is the chairman unit of the Nantong Construction Industry-Education Alliance, and has cooperated with well-known companies such as ZTE, SAIC General Motors, Alibaba, and Schneider to build the Ministry of Education ICT Industry Innovation Base, the Ministry of Education Shanghai General Motors ASEP Project, Alibaba Data Center Training Academy, and Schneider Electric Nantong Training Center. It has built the Nantong Branch of the National Civil Engineering Structure Prefabrication and Assembly Engineering Technology Research Center, the "Contemporary Jiangsu Merchant Entrepreneurship Research Base", a collaborative innovation base for social science application research in higher vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province, the provincial popular science education base, and the "Tongzhou Bay River-Sea Linkage Development Research Institute", a cultivation point for off-campus research bases in humanities and social sciences in Jiangsu universities. It has two provincial engineering research centers, such as pretreatment and recovery of high-concentration organophosphorus pesticide wastewater and prefabricated equipment construction technology, and trains 60,000 talents of all kinds for the society every year. The school actively explores the construction of a modern vocational education system, carries out "4+0" joint training for higher vocational and undergraduate, "3+2" segmented training, and "3+3" segmented training for secondary and higher vocational education, and builds a "bridge" for talent training that interconnects secondary vocational, junior college, and undergraduate, and academic education and technical education, vocational training interact and run in parallel. The pass rate, admission rate, and number of high-scoring candidates for the "special transfer" exam have always been among the top higher vocational colleges in the province. The school is a training base for skilled talents in short supply in the national construction industry, a demonstration base for industrial talent training in Jiangsu Province, an innovative experimental base for talent training models in higher education in Jiangsu Province, a demonstration school for college students' entrepreneurship education in Jiangsu Province, and the third batch of Jiangsu Province's mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases. The student skill certificate acquisition rate reached 99.8%. It won the first prize in the 2021 and 2022 National Vocational College Student Skills Competition, the silver medal in the first World Vocational College Skills Competition in 2022, the international silver medal in the 2022 BRICS Vocational Skills Competition, and the first prize in the country. It has achieved excellent results in various competitions at all levels, such as the Challenge Cup, the Mathematical Modeling Competition, and the Electronic Design Competition. For many years, the employment rate of graduates has remained above 98%, and the satisfaction of employers has reached more than 93%. It has been rated as an advanced collective for employment of college graduates in Jiangsu Province for 8 times. In response to the national "Belt and Road" initiative, the school strives to improve the level of internationalization of education, and has established friendly cooperative relations with colleges and educational institutions in more than 20 countries including Canada, the United States, and Japan, and has established overseas vocational education centers in Indonesia and Namibia. The student project in cooperation with the Namibian government has been included in the country's "Presidential Revitalization Plan" and Jiangsu Province's Foreign Student Talent Program. Cooperate with "going out" enterprises such as AVIC International to build the "Overseas Luban Workshop" to create a training and internship platform to serve overseas trading enterprises. It is one of the "Overseas Chinese Service Workstations" of the ten universities in Jiangsu Province, the "Nantong Overseas Chinese Home Vocational Talent Cultivation Base", the "Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Cultural Exchange Base" and the "Jiangsu Province Foreign Cultural and Educational Expert Management Advanced Unit". Focus on high quality and win the new race. The school will further promote comprehensive and strict party governance, take political construction as the leader, high-quality development as the main line, benchmark the "Double High Plan", focus on improving quality and excellence, and build a learning-oriented, service-oriented, interactive, research-oriented, and quality-oriented "five-type vocational university", and concentrate on creating the "five cultures" of righteousness, craftsmanship, integration, peace, and family, improve the level of school running, and strive to accelerate the construction of an undergraduate vocational university.
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