Foshan Vocational and Technical College was officially established in June 2000. It is a full-time public general college approved by the People's Government of Guangdong Province and organized and supervised by the People's Government of Foshan City. The school is located in the hinterland of Sanshui Park, a national industrial park in Foshan City, with a total area of 956 acres and a construction area of about 293,000 square meters. The total government investment is about 1.46 billion yuan, and the school has more than 10,000 full-time students. There are 7 secondary colleges including the School of Intelligent Manufacturing, the School of Electronic Information, the School of Automotive Engineering, the School of New Energy and Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Engineering, the School of Economics and Management, the School of Cultural Tourism and Creativity, and the School of Marxism. The school is a demonstrative higher vocational college in Guangdong Province, a first-class higher vocational college construction unit in Guangdong Province, the headquarters unit of Foshan Vocational Education Base, the leading unit of Foshan Vocational Education School-Enterprise Cooperation Alliance, and the leading unit of Foshan Vocational Education Society. In 2020, it became a national high-skilled talent training base, in 2021, the school became a national demonstration vocational education group (alliance) cultivation unit, and in 2022, it was selected as a provincial high-level higher vocational college construction plan construction unit. The school adheres to the school motto of "cultivating oneself, learning, and innovating skills", adheres to the development strategy of "governing the school according to law, strengthening the school with talents, establishing the school with quality, and developing the school with characteristics", and focuses on the school-running philosophy of "based on local areas, serving enterprises, quality-oriented, and school-enterprise linkage". Facing the key industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Foshan, it closely connects with Guangdong's innovation-driven development strategy and the needs of regional industrial structure adjustment. In accordance with the professional construction principle of "new industries lead new majors, and strong majors support strong industries", the school adjusts and optimizes the professional structure to form 11 major professional groups and 47 majors with the intelligent manufacturing professional group as the leader, the information technology professional group and the economic management professional group as the two wings, and the automobile professional group, new energy professional group, art design professional group and food and beverage professional group as the new growth pole. At present, 2 key majors supported by the central government have been built, 3 national professional teaching resource libraries, 4 national backbone majors, 5 provincial key majors, 9 provincial brand majors, and 1 IEET certified major have been built. There are 2 national public training centers, 1 national virtual simulation training center, 11 provincial training bases, 14 provincial off-campus practical teaching bases, and the total value of teaching equipment is 230 million yuan. The school fully implements the talent training model of "school-enterprise dual-track, work-study integration", and industry enterprises are deeply integrated into the school's professional talent training process. The school has introduced and established teaching and research institutions such as Foshan Machinery Equipment Industry Association, Siemens Technology Demonstration Center of Germany, KUKA Robot Technology Application and Training Center of Germany, Huasu Robot Demonstration Center, and South China Intelligent Robot Innovation Research Institute, and provided venues to cooperate with Changan Ford to build the "South China Training Center". At the same time, it has established in-depth cooperative relations with many well-known companies such as FAW-Volkswagen, Haier Group, BAIC Foton, Midea Group, Kohler Ceramics, Henglitai, and Zhongnan Machinery. More than 30 corporate title order classes have been set up all year round, and more than 400 off-campus training bases have been established. In addition, each secondary college also plays its professional expertise and works with leading enterprises in the industry to jointly build 9 industrial colleges, including the Intelligent Manufacturing Industry College, the 3D Printing Industry College, the Huawei ICT College, and the Cultural Tourism Industry College, forming a collaborative education situation of "co-construction, co-education, sharing, and win-win" between schools and enterprises. The school strives to build a science and technology service platform and actively carry out social training services. Through the establishment of modern apprenticeships, enterprise-titled order classes, targeted capacity improvement classes, teachers going to enterprises, carrying out dual transfer training and skills appraisal, etc.; through the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao 3D Printing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, joining the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Metal New Materials Industry Alliance and the Pearl River Estuary West Bank Science and Technology Collaborative Innovation Alliance, and establishing the China Vocational Education Society Additive Manufacturing Technology Research Institute (Lu Xin, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education and President of the China Vocational Education Society, served as the president of the institute, and another 4 academicians were hired as members); through the establishment of scientific research and innovation teams, the construction of various municipal science and technology platforms, and other channels, vigorously carry out science and technology development services and personnel skills training for social enterprises, training more than 60,000 people per day each year, providing strong support for local social and economic development. The school actively implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, promotes the "four major projects" of high-level professional leading talents leading project, full-time teachers' dual-qualified quality improvement project, backbone teachers' training double hundred projects and skilled craftsmen entering campus projects, and continuously optimizes the structure of the teaching staff and improves the overall level of the teaching staff. At present, there are 3 national-level "dual-qualified" teacher training bases, 2 academician expert workstations, 1 Guangdong doctoral workstation, 2 Guangdong university scientific research innovation teams, 5 provincial excellent teaching teams, 1 provincial skill master studio, and the innovation team has obtained 114 landmark achievements at the provincial level and above, 34 scientific research platforms at the municipal level and above, and 5 scientific research innovation teams at the provincial university. Teachers of the school have won major awards in many competitions such as the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Guangdong University of Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Roadshow Competition, the National and World Invention Exhibition, and the IIIC International Innovation and Invention Competition. Many teachers have won provincial and municipal science and technology progress awards. The school has achieved good results in improving the quality of talent training. In recent years, our students have won a total of 166 national awards, 870 provincial awards, and 97 awards in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. A large number of outstanding students have emerged, such as Zhang Zhanyao, who won the "Top Ten College Student Entrepreneurship Heroes in 2017" awarded by the School Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Secretariat of the All-China Students' Federation, and Chen Xiaoyue's entrepreneurial team project won the first prize in the Entrepreneurship Group of the 8th China TRIZ Cup College Student Innovation Method Competition. Our students have repeatedly achieved outstanding results in international skills and innovation competitions, won the first prize in the BRICS Skill Development and Technology Innovation Competition, and participated in the 72nd Science and Technology Innovation Competition of the Nuremberg International Invention Exhibition in Germany, one of the three major international invention exhibitions, and won two gold medals in one fell swoop. The school's social influence continues to expand. In the enrollment work over the years, the first choice filing rate of liberal arts and science in the general college entrance examination has reached 100%. The school's graduates are widely welcomed by the society. The graduation destination implementation rate of our school's 2017-2021 graduates has remained above 98.5%. The school strengthens international exchanges and cooperation, actively serves the construction of the "Belt and Road" and the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", establishes cooperative relations with many high-level foreign colleges and universities, and jointly explores the international development model of "Chinese + vocational skills" with key enterprises, creating a new situation for the school's internationalization. The school introduced the advanced concept of German vocational education and became the first batch of "German Chamber of Commerce Cooperation School" in Guangdong Province. It jointly established a robot application technology and training center with the world-renowned German KUKA Group. The school integrates the German dual-system vocational education concept and carries out school-enterprise cooperation with the internationally renowned Foshan leading enterprise Keda Manufacturing to cultivate international compound talents in intelligent manufacturing. Together with the industry-leading enterprise CATL Bangpu Recycling, it builds a Chinese and foreign "Luban Workshop" to cultivate professional and skilled talents for the "Belt and Road" countries. The school is a construction unit of the Ministry of Education's "Chinese and Foreign Cultural Exchange Talent Training Base Project in the Field of Intelligent Manufacturing" and "Humanities Exchange Economic Project". During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the school will serve the needs of Foshan's economic and social development, cultivate a large number of innovative, compound, high-quality technical and skilled talents who serve Foshan's industrial transformation and upgrading, the innovative development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the construction of the "Belt and Road", and strive to build the school into a high-level vocational college with Foshan's industrial characteristics and high-quality development.
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