The school was founded in 1993 and was included in the national unified enrollment plan with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2002. It is a non-profit private undergraduate college and the only university in Shanghai that has entered the national undergraduate vocational education pilot program. In December 2019, it was upgraded to an undergraduate program with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In June 2020, Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical College was renamed Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University (abbreviated as "Zhongqiao University"), and in May 2022, the school became a bachelor's degree awarding institution. The school's vision is to become China's leading and internationally renowned modern vocational and technical university. The school adheres to the mission of establishing morality and cultivating people, responding to global challenges, and cultivating outstanding industrial talents who "be a person, do things, and study" as its mission, focusing on the development strategy of international vision, teacher improvement, industry-education integration, and modern governance. Zhida Group, one of the top 500 manufacturing companies in China, takes "science and education to develop enterprises, and industry to serve the country" as its mission, providing solid support for the development of the school. Zhongqiao University was approved as a national healthy school and won the titles of "Shanghai May 1st Labor Award", "Shanghai Civilized Unit", and "Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus". The school always adheres to the leadership of the Party, adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, takes "educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country" as the fundamental task of running schools, actively explores the comprehensive reform of three-dimensional education, takes serving the national and regional economic and social development as the starting point and foothold for improving the school's capabilities, and takes the cultivation of qualified talents with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor as the central task of running schools. The school adheres to the school motto of "being a person, doing things, and learning", adheres to the development idea of "innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation", and forges ahead on the road of modern vocational education development and pursues excellence. The school deepens educational cooperation, promotes the co-construction and sharing of junior college and undergraduate education resources, promotes professional development, talent training, cultural exchanges, international cooperation, and the connection between junior college and undergraduate, and helps the development of modern vocational education. The school currently has more than 12,000 students, including the School of Economics and Management, School of Food and Drug, School of Information Engineering, School of Intelligent Manufacturing, School of Nursing and Health, School of Art, School of Foreign Languages, School of Civil Engineering, School of Culinary and Hotel Management, a total of 9 secondary colleges, 1 basic teaching department, 1 School of Marxism, 1 School of International Education, 21 undergraduate majors and 31 junior college majors (directions) recruiting students from all over the country. The school has a strong faculty, including professors enjoying special allowances from the State Council, national teaching masters, new era masters (masters) of the Ministry of Education, national industry leaders, Shanghai Pujiang talents, Shanghai academic and technical leaders, provincial teaching masters, provincial academic and technical leaders, provincial outstanding young science and technology experts, Shanghai Chenguang scholars, Shanghai vocational education masters, Shanghai Yucai Award winners, Shanghai talents, Shanghai great craftsmen, great agricultural craftsmen, excellent referees of the National Vocational College Competition, and other national and provincial high-level teachers. The total number of teachers is 740, including 90 professors, 233 associate professors, 93 doctors, and 388 dual-qualified teachers. The school adheres to the employment standards of enterprises and society, and creates four characteristic professional groups: modern logistics management professional group, life and health professional group, digital manufacturing technology and service professional group, and beautiful rural construction professional group. In the exploration, a four-in-one linkage education model of "school, enterprise, industry, and government" is formed. At present, the school maintains good relations with 245 enterprises and has 153 professional training bases inside and outside the school. We will make every effort to promote the school's "14th Five-Year Plan" development strategy, integrate resources, deepen cooperation, further promote education and teaching reform and connotation and characteristic development, and rely on the high-quality educational resources of Shanghai Jiaotong University, East China University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, East China Normal University, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai University of Engineering Science and Technology and other universities to serve students and surrounding communities in vocational skills training and academic qualifications. The school has always attached importance to cultivating students' pioneering, self-reliant, and hardworking spirit. Under the guiding principle of "learning process and comprehensive quality training", we will comprehensively improve students' professional quality and employment competitiveness. Through the cultivation of students' four core abilities of "professional and technical ability, method innovation ability, social practice ability, and employment development ability", we will promote students to transform from "college students" to "quasi-professionals", advocate students' "self-management, self-education, and self-service", and guide students to become real "professionals". The school incorporates innovation and entrepreneurship education into the curriculum system, stimulates innovative thinking, cultivates an entrepreneurial atmosphere, builds a value-creating space, and creates a distinctive brand in campus culture, love and aid, and volunteer services. In recent years, many teachers have won honors such as the "Shanghai Yucai Award", and students have won outstanding results in various competitions such as the National Vocational School Skills Competition, the National "Challenge Cup" Vocational School Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the Shanghai "Starlight Plan" Skills Competition. As one of the 100 employment monitoring points of the Ministry of Education, the school has successfully completed the employment monitoring point layout work and achieved good results. The school has maintained an employment rate of more than 98% for more than ten consecutive years, and the employment rate of undergraduate graduates has been 100% for two consecutive years. The school adheres to the path of connotation construction and internationalization, and gives full play to the city-level “Municipal Industry-Education Consortium”, “New Technician College”, “Student Social Practice Innovation Base”, the Ministry of Education’s “Jinshan Peasant Painting” Inheritance and Innovation Practice Base, “Collaborative Employment Education” and “School-Enterprise Collaborative Education” Platform, “China Arts and Crafts Master Inheritance and Innovation Base” and other project carriers or institutional entity functions, closely following the strategic task of “North-South Transformation” in Shanghai and the strategic positioning of “Two Districts and One Fortress” in Jinshan District, promoting the integration of schools and enterprises, scientific research and industry, vocational undergraduate and secondary vocational education, and higher vocational education. It integrates the resources of associations and chambers of commerce such as the Federation of Modern Service Industries and Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, joins hands with industry leaders such as Tencent, Huawei, and Laiyifen, and signs strategic cooperation agreements with 13 industry leaders such as Baowu Group, Shanghai Construction Fifth Construction, Lenovo, Ctrip, and iFLYTEK, and establishes school-enterprise cooperation relations with 192 regional enterprises, gathering resources from all sides, carrying out industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation in multiple dimensions, and enabling the cultivation of high-quality technical and skilled talents. The school continues to improve its internationalized school-running capabilities. In May 2023, it successfully obtained the authoritative certification of the German Higher Education Quality Certification Agency (ACQUIN International Certification), enhanced the international vision of teachers and students, and cultivated technical and skilled talents with an international vision. The school has established the Zhongqiao Helsinki Engineering College (cooperated with the University of Applied Sciences of Helsinki City, Finland), established the IBT International Vocational Education Research Institute, and the CVTT Sino-German Vocational Teacher Training Center to improve the level of internationalized school-running. It has carried out international exchanges and cooperation with nearly 20 high-quality overseas universities such as Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Finland, and Indonesia, and built a platform for students to study abroad and go abroad for further studies. Nearly 100 students go abroad for further studies or short-term visits every year. "There are my proud children in the sea of learning, Zhongqiao University, let your dreams fly!" Zhongqiao University will continue to promote educational and teaching reforms and the development of connotation and characteristics, closely focus on the talent training strategy in the new era, and cultivate high-quality, high-tech and skilled professional talents with international vision to adapt to future development, and strive to move forward towards the goal of "China's leading and internationally renowned modern vocational and technical university"!
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