Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College is affiliated to the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce. It is the earliest and only full-time general higher vocational college in Shandong Province that specializes in foreign trade and economic education. The predecessor of the college was the Shandong Foreign Economic and Trade School founded in 1964 and the Shandong Foreign Economic and Trade Staff University founded in 1984. In 1988, it began to enroll ordinary junior college students. It was the first school of its kind in the province to offer ordinary junior college education. In the same year, the first batch of students of the international trade major established by Shandong University was trained by our college. From 1992 to 2001, a total of ten junior college students of Qingdao University's international trade, foreign-related accounting, business English and other majors were trained by our college. In 1998, it became the first batch of pilot higher vocational schools in Shandong Province. In 2002, Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College was established. In 2014, Shandong Business Technical School and Shandong Service Outsourcing Tai'an Base were merged into the college. In 2015, the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce Training Center and Shandong Service Outsourcing Qingdao Base were merged into the college. In 2016, the college established a branch in Washington State, USA. In 2019, Shandong Business Development Research Institute (Qingdao) and Shandong Institute of Science and Technology for Foreign Economic and Trade were merged into the college. The college operates in Qingdao and Tai'an, with more than 11,000 students currently enrolled. The college is: a national high-quality higher vocational college, the first batch of high-quality higher vocational colleges in Shandong Province, a famous school with characteristics for cultivating skilled talents in Shandong Province, the first batch of brand vocational colleges in Qingdao City, deputy director of the National Foreign Trade and Economic Vocational Education Teaching Steering Committee, a member of the Ministry of Education's Vocational School Foreign Language Professional Teaching Steering Committee, chairman of the National Foreign Trade and Economic Vocational Education Teaching Steering Committee, business foreign language professional steering committee, deputy director of the China Higher Vocational Research Association Business Branch, chairman of the Foreign Language Professional Committee of the China Higher Vocational Research Association Business Branch, Shandong Foreign Trade and Economic Vocational Education Professional Construction Steering Committee, Shandong Foreign Language Vocational Education Professional Construction Steering Committee, Shandong International Business Vocational Education Group Chairman of Shandong Cross-border The college is a provincial civilized unit in Shandong Province, a civilized campus in Qingdao City, a model school for the construction of digital campuses in national vocational colleges, the first batch of pilot units for educational informatization in Shandong Province and a demonstration unit for educational informatization in Shandong Province, the only comprehensive hosting and executing agency for national foreign aid training projects in Shandong Province, a training base for key service outsourcing talents in Shandong Province, a cross-border e-commerce training base in Shandong Province, a training base for talents in all-round tourism in Shandong Province, an educational practice base for the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage in Shandong Province, and a training base for policy knowledge in the free trade zone in Qingdao Port. The college's majors are closely connected with the regional open economy and high-end foreign-related service industries, and have formed a distinctive "foreign" school-running feature mainly focusing on foreign trade, foreign languages, foreign transportation and outsourcing. There are 24 majors in the university, among which international trade practice, customs declaration and international freight, tourism management, e-commerce, business English, accounting, international finance, software technology, insurance, international business, etc. are national key majors; logistics management is a provincial specialty; there are four provincial high-level professional groups: international trade practice professional group, business foreign language professional group, accounting and finance professional group, and international transportation and logistics professional group; the three majors of international trade practice, software technology, and logistics management are jointly trained with Yantai University, Qingdao University, and Qufu Normal University for "3+2" students, and some students in the undergraduate stage can study with pay; international trade practice and accounting are key majors supported by the central finance; tourism management major is a national demonstration major in tourism for vocational colleges; in 1987, the university cooperated with China The "Foreign Trade Transport" order class jointly organized by the Foreign Trade Transport Company is the first in the country. International Transport and Logistics Management, International Trade Brand Group, and Accounting and Finance Brand Group are provincial brand professional groups; International Trade Practice, Logistics Management, E-commerce, Accounting, Animation Production Technology, Customs Declaration and International Freight, and Tourism Management have been approved as pilot majors for modern apprenticeship in Shandong Province and Qingdao City; Business English, Customs Declaration and International Freight, E-commerce, Marketing, Civil Aviation Transport, and International Finance are key majors in Qingdao City's higher vocational education; Leading the construction of 7 Qingdao City secondary and higher vocational professional school alliances including international trade practice, software and service outsourcing, accounting, animation design and production, flight attendants, business Japanese, and e-commerce, and co-establishing Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College Qingdao Post E-commerce College with China Post Group Qingdao Branch. The college has also signed cooperation agreements with many similar colleges in more than 10 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore to carry out mutual exchange of teachers and students for study abroad or short-term training, and cooperated with the Czech Budejovice Technical and Business College to send students to carry out the "Overseas Business Representative" talent training project, and has trained 53 students. The college has a faculty of more than 600 people, including nearly 200 teachers with senior professional titles and more than 60 bilingual teachers. It has six provincial teaching teams in international trade practice, business English, software technology, accounting, customs declaration and international freight, and e-commerce. The international business teaching team and the public English teaching innovation team were rated as "Huang Danian-style teaching teams in Shandong universities". Among the full-time teachers, 7.8% are postdoctoral fellows and doctors, and 85.5% are teachers with master's degrees or above. All professional teachers are doctors and senior talents with corporate experience. The college has more than 130 full-time foreign language teachers in English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish and Arabic, including more than 110 English teachers. Eight teachers have received simultaneous interpretation training in the European Union and obtained simultaneous interpreter certificates (a total of 10 in Qingdao). Many foreign language teachers provide high-end language services for major national, provincial and municipal foreign affairs events such as the Olympic Sailing Competition, Clipper Regatta, APEC Trade Ministers' Meeting, International Education Informatization Conference, and SCO Qingdao Summit. In 2016, the "Fourth International Seminar on Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching" was successfully held after Nanjing University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Beijing Jiaotong University. More than 20 foreign teachers are hired throughout the year to undertake foreign language course teaching and some professional course teaching tasks. Teachers and students have repeatedly won special prizes and first prizes in various foreign language skills competitions across the country and the province. Foreign language education and teaching are in a leading position among national vocational colleges. The college attaches great importance to the further study and training of teachers. Every year, more than 20 teachers are arranged to go abroad for further study and training, and more than 40 teachers are assigned to enterprises for training. The college has 1.The Qingdao West Coast Training Base with an area of 60,000 square meters and the Qingdao Cross-border E-commerce Incubation Base, which is listed as a key construction project in Qingdao, have been built. 19 "corporate" on-campus training bases, including Qingdao Hainuocheng Financial Consulting Company, Qingdao Shanwai International Language Translation Co., Ltd., Binhai Tourism Service Center, and E-commerce Entrepreneurship Service Center, and 12 "teaching" off-campus training bases, including Qingdao Rulong Group Co., Ltd. Practice Teaching Base and Qingdao Huaken Import and Export Company Practice Teaching Base, have been built. In cooperation with well-known large enterprises and alumni enterprises such as Xinhuajin Group and Haifeng International Holdings Co., Ltd., a total of 383 on-campus and off-campus training bases have been built. Among them, Qingdao Hainuocheng Financial Consulting Company, Qingdao Shanwai International Language Translation Co., Ltd., Binhai Tourism Service Center, and E-commerce Entrepreneurship Service Center have been built. The translation company is a national-level productive training base, and the e-commerce major is a national-level "double-qualified" teacher training base; Business English, Japanese, Korean, civil aviation business, and aviation service majors have built central financial support training bases, among which the simultaneous interpretation training room is the earliest public higher vocational college in the province; a campus network environment with wired household access and wireless full coverage has been built, a "one-card" platform with complete functions and smooth campus, an advanced and complete network teaching platform, resource sharing platform, and office application platform, and a multimedia classroom coverage rate of 100%; a leading domestic comprehensive language and culture practice teaching base-"Foreign Language Village" and a world cultural miniature landscape area and a foreign trade cultural landscape belt have been built. The college focuses on social services, and has 8 research centers such as international logistics and an international economic and trade research institute. The Cross-border E-commerce Engineering Technology R&D Center has been approved as the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" Shandong Higher Education Engineering Technology R&D Center, and is the first provincial scientific research and innovation platform in the field of cross-border e-commerce in the province. The International Business Application Technology Collaborative Innovation Center and the Free Trade Zone Application Technology Collaborative Innovation Center have been recognized as national application technology collaborative innovation centers by the Ministry of Education. The college completed a major bidding project for Qingdao's "13th Five-Year Plan" e-commerce development plan, "Research on Qingdao's e-commerce development trends and path selection", which became the main content of Qingdao's "13th Five-Year Plan" e-commerce development plan, and played an important role in ultimately promoting Qingdao's approval as one of the 12 national cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones; commissioned by provincial and municipal government departments, it undertook the preparation of multiple industry plans such as the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce's provincial capital city cluster economic circle open economic development plan; the compiled industry reports such as "Shandong Foreign Trade Situation Report" and "Business Research" are important reference materials for provincial and municipal leaders' business work; the "Suggestions on Promoting the Development of Cross-border E-commerce" proposed by our college was adopted by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and submitted to the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and relevant ministries and commissions; the "Exploration and Practice of Cross-border E-commerce Talent Training Model Based on Deep Integration of Industry and Education" won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, which is a cross-border One of the only two national teaching achievement awards in the field of e-commerce; carried out counterpart assistance in the western region, and signed a long-term comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with Haibei Prefecture, Qinghai Province; signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Licang District Government, and the co-built Qingdao Cross-border E-commerce Incubation Base will lead the transformation and upgrading of traditional foreign trade enterprises and bring breakthroughs to the development of cross-border e-commerce in Qingdao; the Shandong Province Cross-border E-commerce Industry-Education Alliance, which was established with the participation of 1,481 enterprises and institutions, led the development of the cross-border e-commerce industry in Shandong Province; entrusted by the Provincial Department of Commerce, from 2016 to 2018, the college undertook the special training task of "Cross-border E-commerce into Ten Thousand Enterprises" in Shandong Province, trained 27,000 people for 14,000 enterprises and more than 60 universities in the province, helped more than 500 enterprises incubate cross-border e-commerce business, trained and promoted new foreign trade formats, and led a large number of enterprises to expand or transform cross-border e-commerce business, promoting the development of the province's cross-border e-commerce industry. From 2017 to 2022, it hosted five consecutive Shandong Province Cross-border E-commerce Summits. In 2019, it hosted the National Cross-border E-commerce Industry-Education Integration Development Forum and School-Enterprise Matchmaking Meeting. In December 2019, the "Special Training Action for Open Talents in Shandong Province" approved by the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce was launched. From 2019 to 2022, the "Special Training Action for Open Talents in Shandong Province" was undertaken. 78 special training courses such as "Foreign Trade Enterprise Export-to-Domestic Sales", "Foreign Trade Policy", "Foreign Trade Business Practice", "Cross-border E-commerce Enterprise Incubation", "Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Skills Improvement", and "International Trade Risk Prevention" were held online and offline, with a total of more than 25,000 trainees. The college also held various training courses on foreign trade business, cross-border e-commerce business, free trade zone policy knowledge, air transport sales business, business foreign languages, accounting and finance for Qinghai Province, Sichuan Province, Chongqing City, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet, and 16 cities in the province, with a total of more than 10,000 trainees. The college is a national high-quality provincial teacher training base. It actively undertakes national and provincial teacher training projects every year, and has built a public welfare online training platform-Shandong Foreign Trade Cloud School, forming a distinctive "Shanwai Training" brand. Since becoming the only comprehensive hosting and executing agency of national foreign aid training projects in Shandong Province in 2012, the college has actively served the "Belt and Road" national initiative and the "going out" of Shandong enterprises. As of August 2023, our college has hosted 354 foreign aid training projects, with a total of 11,794 trainees from 142 developing countries participating in the training. Among them, 14 ministerial officials' seminars were held, with 255 trainees. 18 overseas classes were held, with 1,195 trainees. Overseas training centers have been established in 14 countries including Sudan, Costa Rica, and Cuba. During the training, the college focused on giving full play to the advantages of the industry and the expertise of professional teachers, organizing officials and technical personnel to visit and inspect related enterprises, helping the development of enterprises, and building bridges for enterprises to "go out", promoting exchanges and cooperation between our province and recipient countries in the fields of economy, trade, culture, technology, etc. In 2019, the college became the largest school for foreign aid training among colleges and universities in the country, with a training scale of 95 sessions. The college took the lead in the Shandong Province "Belt and Road" International Vocational Education Alliance and the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Forum on Vocational Education. It jointly initiated the establishment of the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Economic and Trade Industry-Education Alliance with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Demonstration Zone Management Committee and the Qingdao Municipal Education Bureau, and focused on building a national open international education cooperation platform, economic and trade cultural exchange platform, scientific research platform, and international think tank platform, greatly enhancing its international influence. In the nearly 60 years since the college was founded, it has cultivated more than 70,000 graduates. Alumni have established more than 3,000 foreign trade enterprises with import and export volume of more than 15 million yuan at home and abroad, and more than 600 international logistics, customs declaration and freight companies. Among them is Haifeng International Holding Group, which ranks first among China's private logistics companies and 13th among global container shipping companies. Its leader has been ranked the richest man in Qingdao by Forbes for many consecutive years; there is Xinhuajin Group, which has ranked first in Shandong Province in terms of total import and export volume for 5 consecutive years. The college's graduates are in short supply. In the past five years, more than 1,100 companies have visited the college's first graduate campus recruitment fair every year, providing tens of thousands of positions. More than 90% of fresh graduates are booked six months in advance, and a virtuous cycle of "enrollment-talent training-employment" has been achieved. Many alumni companies such as Qingdao Jielimei and Gaoyang International Logistics have established scholarships in the college. Many alumni have become off-campus experts in talent training in the college. Many alumni companies have become important off-campus internship and training bases for students. The college is also an important talent training base and development think tank for alumni companies. The college and alumni companies have formed an ecosystem of industry-education integration and coordinated development.70,000 people have helped more than 500 companies incubate cross-border e-commerce businesses, trained, publicized and promoted new foreign trade formats, driven a large number of companies to expand or transform cross-border e-commerce businesses, and promoted the development of the province's cross-border e-commerce industry. From 2017 to 2022, it hosted five consecutive Shandong Cross-border E-commerce Summits. In 2019, it hosted the National Cross-border E-commerce Industry-Education Integration Development Forum and School-Enterprise Matchmaking Conference. Since December 2019, the "Shandong Province Open Talent Special Training Action" approved by the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce has been launched. From 2019 to 2022, it has undertaken the task of "Shandong Province Open Talent Special Training Action", and held 78 online and offline special training courses such as "Foreign Trade Enterprise Export to Domestic Sales", "Foreign Trade Policy", "Foreign Trade Business Practice", "Cross-border E-commerce Enterprise Incubation", "Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Skills Improvement", and "International Trade Risk Prevention", with a total of more than 25,000 trainees. The college also organizes various training courses on foreign trade business, cross-border e-commerce business, free trade zone policy knowledge, air transport sales business, business foreign languages, accounting and finance for Qinghai Province, Sichuan Province, Chongqing City, Xigaze Prefecture, Tibet and 16 cities in the province, with a total of more than 10,000 trainees. The college is a national high-quality provincial teacher training base. It actively undertakes national and provincial teacher training projects every year, and has built a public welfare online training platform-Shandong Foreign Trade Cloud School, forming a distinctive "Shanwai Training" brand. Since becoming the only comprehensive hosting and executing agency for national foreign aid training projects in Shandong Province in 2012, the college has actively served the "Belt and Road" national initiative and Shandong enterprises' "going out". As of August 2023, our college has hosted 354 foreign aid training projects, with a total of 11,794 trainees from 142 developing countries participating in the training. Among them, 14 ministerial seminars were held, with 255 trainees. 18 overseas classes were held, with 1,195 trainees. Overseas training centers have been established in 14 countries including Sudan, Costa Rica and Cuba. During the training, the college focused on giving full play to the industry advantages and professional teachers' expertise, organizing officials and technical personnel to visit and inspect related enterprises, helping enterprises to develop, and building bridges for enterprises to "go global", promoting exchanges and cooperation between our province and recipient countries in the fields of economy, trade, culture, technology, etc. In 2019, the college became the largest school in the country for foreign aid training, with a training scale of 95 sessions. The college took the lead in the Shandong Province "Belt and Road" International Alliance for Vocational Education and the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Forum for Vocational Education, and jointly initiated the establishment of the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Economic and Trade Industry-Education Alliance with the Management Committee of the SCO Demonstration Zone and the Qingdao Municipal Education Bureau, focusing on building a national open international education cooperation platform, economic and trade cultural exchange platform, scientific research platform, and international think tank platform, and greatly enhancing its international influence. In the nearly 60 years since the college was established, it has cultivated more than 70,000 graduates, and alumni have established more than 3,000 foreign trade enterprises with import and export volumes of more than 15 million yuan at home and abroad, and more than 600 international logistics, customs declaration and freight companies. Among them is Haifeng International Holding Group, which ranks first among private logistics companies in China and 13th among global container shipping companies. Its leader has been ranked the richest man in Qingdao by Forbes for many consecutive years; there is Xinhuajin Group, which has ranked first in Shandong Province in terms of total import and export volume for five consecutive years. The college's graduates are in short supply. In the past five years, more than 1,100 companies have attended the college's first graduate campus recruitment fair each year, providing tens of thousands of jobs. More than 90% of fresh graduates are booked six months in advance, and a virtuous cycle of "enrollment-talent training-employment" is achieved. Many alumni companies such as Qingdao Jielimei and Gaoyang International Logistics have established scholarships in the college. Many alumni have become off-campus experts in the college's talent training, and many alumni companies have become important off-campus internship and training bases for students. The college is also an important talent training base and development think tank for alumni companies. The college and alumni companies have formed an ecosystem of industry-education integration and coordinated development.70,000 people have helped more than 500 companies incubate cross-border e-commerce businesses, trained, publicized and promoted new foreign trade formats, driven a large number of companies to expand or transform cross-border e-commerce businesses, and promoted the development of the province's cross-border e-commerce industry. From 2017 to 2022, it hosted five consecutive Shandong Cross-border E-commerce Summits. In 2019, it hosted the National Cross-border E-commerce Industry-Education Integration Development Forum and School-Enterprise Matchmaking Conference. Since December 2019, the "Shandong Province Open Talent Special Training Action" approved by the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce has been launched. From 2019 to 2022, it has undertaken the task of "Shandong Province Open Talent Special Training Action", and held 78 online and offline special training courses such as "Foreign Trade Enterprise Export to Domestic Sales", "Foreign Trade Policy", "Foreign Trade Business Practice", "Cross-border E-commerce Enterprise Incubation", "Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Skills Improvement", and "International Trade Risk Prevention", with a total of more than 25,000 trainees. The college also organizes various training courses on foreign trade business, cross-border e-commerce business, free trade zone policy knowledge, air transport sales business, business foreign languages, accounting and finance for Qinghai Province, Sichuan Province, Chongqing City, Xigaze Prefecture, Tibet and 16 cities in the province, with a total of more than 10,000 trainees. The college is a national high-quality provincial teacher training base. It actively undertakes national and provincial teacher training projects every year, and has built a public welfare online training platform-Shandong Foreign Trade Cloud School, forming a distinctive "Shanwai Training" brand. Since becoming the only comprehensive hosting and executing agency for national foreign aid training projects in Shandong Province in 2012, the college has actively served the "Belt and Road" national initiative and Shandong enterprises' "going out". As of August 2023, our college has hosted 354 foreign aid training projects, with a total of 11,794 trainees from 142 developing countries participating in the training. Among them, 14 ministerial seminars were held, with 255 trainees. 18 overseas classes were held, with 1,195 trainees. Overseas training centers have been established in 14 countries including Sudan, Costa Rica and Cuba. During the training, the college focused on giving full play to the industry advantages and professional teachers' expertise, organizing officials and technical personnel to visit and inspect related enterprises, helping enterprises to develop, and building bridges for enterprises to "go global", promoting exchanges and cooperation between our province and recipient countries in the fields of economy, trade, culture, technology, etc. In 2019, the college became the largest school in the country for foreign aid training, with a training scale of 95 sessions. The college took the lead in the Shandong Province "Belt and Road" International Alliance for Vocational Education and the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Forum for Vocational Education, and jointly initiated the establishment of the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Economic and Trade Industry-Education Alliance with the Management Committee of the SCO Demonstration Zone and the Qingdao Municipal Education Bureau, focusing on building a national open international education cooperation platform, economic and trade cultural exchange platform, scientific research platform, and international think tank platform, and greatly enhancing its international influence. In the nearly 60 years since the college was established, it has cultivated more than 70,000 graduates, and alumni have established more than 3,000 foreign trade enterprises with import and export volumes of more than 15 million yuan at home and abroad, and more than 600 international logistics, customs declaration and freight companies. Among them is Haifeng International Holding Group, which ranks first among private logistics companies in China and 13th among global container shipping companies. Its leader has been ranked the richest man in Qingdao by Forbes for many consecutive years; there is Xinhuajin Group, which has ranked first in Shandong Province in terms of total import and export volume for five consecutive years. The college's graduates are in short supply. In the past five years, more than 1,100 companies have attended the college's first graduate campus recruitment fair each year, providing tens of thousands of jobs. More than 90% of fresh graduates are booked six months in advance, and a virtuous cycle of "enrollment-talent training-employment" is achieved. Many alumni companies such as Qingdao Jielimei and Gaoyang International Logistics have established scholarships in the college. Many alumni have become off-campus experts in the college's talent training, and many alumni companies have become important off-campus internship and training bases for students. The college is also an important talent training base and development think tank for alumni companies. The college and alumni companies have formed an ecosystem of industry-education integration and coordinated development.
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