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Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University
China

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Official website: https://www.gpnu.edu.cn/
Tel：020-38265603,020-38256659
Address：East Campus: No. 293, Zhongshan Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou; West Campus: No. 576, Longkou West Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou; North Campus: No. 183, Guangyuan West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou; Baiyun Campus: No. 155, Huanzhen West Road, Hebu Village, Jianggao Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou; Heyuan Campus: No. 008 Township Road, Dongjiang Education City, Xiantang Town, Dongyuan County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province
——Serve the industry, lead vocational education, and build a new development pattern of "technology + normal education" The school is located in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province and the central city of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It is a provincial university with the right to confer master's degrees. It began to train undergraduates in 1977, obtained a master's degree awarding unit in 2006, and was approved as a Guangdong Province doctoral degree awarding project construction university in 2021. It is a university under the Guangdong Province's "rush to the first-class, make up for shortcomings, and strengthen characteristics" characteristic improvement plan. The school gives full play to the location advantages of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the characteristic advantages of vocational education in Guangdong Province, serves the industry, and promotes the deep integration of industry and education in China; leads vocational education and creates a southern highland for the training of China's "dual-teacher" craftsmen. Historical evolution. The school was formerly known as Guangdong University for Nationalities. It was founded in 1957 and its first president was Comrade Luo Ming, an older generation revolutionary. It is one of the first universities in China to grant bachelor's degrees. In 1998, it was renamed Guangdong Vocational and Technical Teachers College, and transformed into vocational and technical teacher education to train teachers for vocational colleges. In 2002 and 2005, the former Guangdong Mechanical School, the former Guangdong Economic Management Cadre College and the Guangdong Finance and Trade Management Cadre College were successively merged and renamed Guangdong Technical Teachers College. In 2018, it was renamed Guangdong Technical Normal University. School conditions. The school currently has five campuses, including the East Campus, West Campus, North Campus, Baiyun Campus, and Heyuan Campus, covering an area of more than 2,500 acres, with a school building area of more than 830,000 square meters and a total area of more than 430,000 square meters for teaching and administrative buildings. The library has a building area of more than 80,000 square meters, with a total paper collection of more than 2.41 million volumes, 6,147 Chinese and foreign paper journals, about 1.65 million Chinese electronic books, about 5.65 million Chinese and foreign literature theses, and about 182,500 hours of audio-visual resources. There are 336 on-campus experimental and training sites, 16 Guangdong Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, 273 off-campus professional practice teaching bases, 179 off-campus educational practice internship bases, and teaching and scientific research equipment with a total value of 500 million yuan. Talent training. The school implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, adheres to the "five-pronged education", and has won 34 national and provincial teaching achievement awards; it currently has 26 secondary teaching units and more than 36,000 full-time undergraduate students; it offers 74 undergraduate majors, including 37 science and engineering majors, 37 liberal arts majors; 36 teacher training majors; it has more than 70 national and provincial first-class undergraduate majors, comprehensive reform pilot majors, outstanding talent training plan majors and application-oriented demonstration majors; it has built more than 110 national and provincial first-class undergraduate courses, online open courses, quality courses, course ideological and political demonstration courses, and teacher education courses. The school has established a professional training system for high-quality "dual-qualified" vocational teachers and application-oriented talents, continuously innovated talent training models, continued to deepen the integration of industry and education, and established 15 industrial colleges; carried out in-depth innovation and entrepreneurship education, and was approved as the "Guangdong University Science and Technology Park" and "Guangzhou Science and Technology Enterprise Incubator" unit qualifications; carried out collaborative innovation strategic cooperation projects with local governments, industry enterprises, etc., and jointly built 264 national and provincial college student practice teaching bases with well-known enterprises. In the past three years, students have won many awards in high-level discipline competitions at home and abroad, such as the "Internet +", "Challenge Cup" series of competitions, and mathematical modeling competitions, and have won more than 500 national awards and more than 1,800 provincial awards. The employment rate has remained at the forefront of similar universities for many years, and it has been rated as a "National Graduate Employment Typical Experience University" by the Ministry of Education, and has been awarded the honorary titles of "Guangdong Advanced Employment Unit", "Guangdong Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration School", and "Guangdong Law-based School Demonstration School" by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government. Discipline construction and graduate education. The school focuses on building a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, serving the high-quality development of vocational education and self-reliance in science and technology, creating three major disciplines of ethnology, education, and electronic information. The ESI engineering science discipline ranks in the top 1% in the world. There are 9 major disciplines, including economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, management, art, and history. There are 5 provincial key disciplines, including ethnology, education, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, control science and engineering, and mechanical engineering. There are 3 Pearl River Scholars, including modern and contemporary Chinese literature, communication and information systems, and pattern recognition and intelligent systems. There are 4 first-level disciplines, including education, ethnology, journalism and communication, and control science and engineering. Master's degree authorization points, education, electronic information, machinery, energy and power, accounting, journalism and communication, and 6 master's professional degree authorization points. The school is a graduate recruitment and training unit for "on-the-job master's professional degree for vocational school teachers", "high-level backbone talent program for ethnic minorities", "retired college student soldier program" and a pilot unit for education of master of education (vocational and technical education) professional degree graduate students (referred to as "vocational education master"), and there are 32 Guangdong Province graduate joint training bases. There are more than 1,800 full-time graduate students and more than 200 part-time graduate students. Scientific research. The school has a number of strong scientific research platforms, including one research base selected by the National Ethnic Affairs Commission (the South China Research Base of the Chinese Ethnic Community and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area), one collaborative innovation platform of the Ministry of Science and Technology (the Guangdong-Hong Kong Manufacturing Cloud Service International Cooperation Base), one Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory (Guangdong Provincial Intellectual Property Big Data Key Laboratory), 3 provincial think tanks (Vocational Education Development Research Center, National Development Research Center, Chinese Ethnic Community Research Institute), 8 provincial research bases, 5 Guangdong Provincial Humanities and Social Sciences Popularization Bases, 1 Guangdong Provincial Science Popularization Education Base, 13 Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Centers, 1 International Cooperation Base, 5 Guangzhou Key Laboratories, 3 Guangzhou Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Bases (including co-construction), 3 Guangzhou Social Science Popularization Bases (including co-construction), 12 Guangdong Provincial Education Department Scientific Research Platforms, and 12 Guangdong Provincial Education Department Scientific Research Teams. In addition, the school has co-built the Shunde Modern Vocational Education Research Institute with the People's Government of Shunde District, Foshan City, and co-built the Heyuan City Guangdong Normal University Research Institute with the People's Government of Heyuan City. In the past three years, the school has won a total of 58 national natural science and national social science funds (37 natural sciences, 21 humanities and social sciences); 11 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards, including 1 first prize and 4 second prizes in Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 second prize in Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education, 1 first prize in Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 Guangdong Provincial Technology Invention Award, 1 9th Guangdong Outstanding Inventor Award, and 2 Guangdong Provincial Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Awards. Faculty. The school has a faculty with high academic level and strong teaching ability.There are 557 teachers with senior and deputy senior titles, and more than 740 teachers with doctoral degrees. Among the faculty, there are dual-appointed academicians, representatives of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, winners of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, winners of the China Patent Excellence Award, and review experts of the National Natural Science Foundation. There are national outstanding teachers, winners of the Women Inventors Excellence Award, New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, national "College Ideological and Political Theory Course Teaching Experts", national "2019 Propaganda Ideological and Cultural Youth Talents", national "College Ideological and Political Theory Course Teacher Annual Influence Nominee", National College Counselor of the Year, National "Most Beautiful College Counselor", Guangdong Province Outstanding Youth Fund Winner, Guangdong Province Young Pearl River Scholar, Guangdong Province Special Support Plan Youth Cultural Talent, Guangdong Province Science and Technology Innovation Youth Top Talent, Guangdong Province "Sailing Plan" Talent, Guangdong Province Teaching Master, Guangdong Province Labor Model, Guangdong Province College Ideological and Political Theory Course Teacher, Guangdong Province Nanyue Outstanding Teacher (Nanyue Teaching Newcomer), Nanyue Outstanding Educator, Guangdong Province College "Thousands, Hundreds, Tens Project" Provincial Training Target, Guangdong Province College Outstanding Young Teacher Training Target and other high-level talents. Social services. The school has been selected by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and the Provincial Department of Education as a "National Key Vocational Teacher Training Base", "National Skilled Talent Training College", "National Professional and Technical Personnel Continuing Education Base", "National Ethnic Affairs Commission Vocational Education Teacher Training Center", "Guangdong Province High-skilled Talent Training Base", "Guangdong Vocational School Teacher Development Center", "Guangdong Province 'Dual-qualified' Teacher Certification Institution", etc. The school is the chairman unit of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Vocational Education Teacher Development Alliance, Guangdong Higher Vocational and Technical Education Research Association, Guangdong Vocational Teacher Training and Training Alliance, Sino-German Cooperation Vocational Teacher Training and Training Alliance, and Guangdong Province Industry-Education Integration Promotion Association. The school fully taps into ethnic education and subject resources, promotes the cross-integration of ethnic art, ethnic sports, management, economics, and law, and has twice been awarded the "National Model Collective for Ethnic Unity and Progress" and the second batch of Guangdong Provincial Ethnic Unity and Progress Education Base by the Guangdong Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission, highlighting the advantages and characteristics of the school's ethnic education. The school has held more than 1,700 training courses for vocational teachers at all levels and types, and trained more than 80,000 principals, managers and professional backbone teachers from secondary and higher vocational colleges across the country. International exchange and cooperation. The school adheres to open education. It is a member unit of the China-Africa (South) Vocational Education Cooperation Alliance and a member university of the "China-Arab University 10+10 Cooperation Plan". It has carried out credit recognition and degree awarding cooperation with more than ten universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Japan and other countries. It has carried out academic exchanges and cooperation in the Erasmus project, as well as teacher exchanges and student exchanges with universities such as the AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. It has been approved for a number of international scientific and technological cooperation projects and "Overseas Famous Teachers" projects of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology. It has trained more than 4,000 international students from more than 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, America and other continents, forming a new system of international exchange and cooperation with undergraduate teaching as the main focus, undergraduate, graduate education and Chinese language education and training at multiple levels and with high-quality development. Nearly 200 key teachers and teaching management personnel have been selected to go to overseas universities for training or visiting studies. The school recruits undergraduate students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has taken the lead in establishing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Vocational Education Teacher Development Alliance and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Doctoral Level Vocational Teacher Training Industry-Education Consortium. In the past two years, it has been approved for two ministerial exchange projects. Development Vision. Over the past 60 years, the school has changed its name several times, but its original intention has not changed. Based on the new development stage, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fulfills the mission of educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, earnestly implements the new development concept, upholds the school motto of “being virtuous, knowledgeable, realistic and innovative”, adheres to the development ideas of “improving discipline construction, serving vocational education and creating characteristics” and “strengthening new engineering, becoming a new special normal school, improving new liberal arts, and expanding international cooperation and social services”, implements the school’s “14th Five-Year Plan” development plan, and gathers the development consensus of “stabilizing scale, adjusting structure, laying out a new situation, deepening reform, improving quality, and increasing efficiency”. It adheres to the development strategies of innovative development, characteristic development, systematic development, industry-education integration development, and digital transformation, implements nine major projects such as party building leadership, and builds ten systems such as distinctive talent training, cultivates high-quality “craftsmen teachers” and high-level applied professionals, strives to build a new pattern of high-quality development of the school’s “technology + normal school”, and strives to build a first-class technical normal university based in the Bay Area, serving the country, and facing the world.