What about Xinjiang Vocational University?

Xinjiang Vocational University was founded in 1962. Its predecessor, Xinjiang Vocational Amateur University, was jointly founded by the Autonomous Region Federation of Trade Unions and the Autonomous Region Education Department under the kind care of General Wang Zhen. In 1991, the school was renamed "Xinjiang Workers University". In 1996, it was approved by the former State Education Commission as one of the first batch of higher vocational education pilot colleges in the country and began to recruit higher vocational students in 1997. In 2000, the school was renamed "Xinjiang Vocational University". In 2007, the Ministry of Education approved the name change and filed it. In 2000 and 2005, Xinjiang Commercial Technical School and Xinjiang Mongolian Normal School were merged into Xinjiang Vocational University.

Over the past half century, Xinjiang Vocational University has transformed from an adult college into a comprehensive higher vocational college with the gradual economic and social development of the autonomous region, and has trained more than 50,000 high-quality technical skills rooted in the border areas. It has played an important role in cultivating a large number of professional talents and promoting the development and construction of Xinjiang.

At the beginning of this century, Xinjiang Vocational University entered a new stage of reform and development of higher vocational education. In 2010, the school passed the Ministry of Education’s evaluation of talent training in higher vocational colleges. In 2011, it was identified as a model higher vocational college in the autonomous region. In 2013, it was designated as a national high-skilled talent training base by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. In 2014, it became one of the 25 "Sino-German Automotive Mechanical and Electrical Vocational Education Project (SGAVE)" schools in China jointly organized by the Ministry of Education, the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation, the German International Cooperation (GIZ) and the five major German automobile companies. In 2015, it became One of the first 100 modern apprenticeship pilot units of the Ministry of Education.

The school is located in Urumqi, the core node city of the beautiful Silk Road Economic Belt. It currently has three campuses: Beijing Road Campus, Youhao Road Campus, and Bazhou Road Campus. It has nine colleges and two teaching departments and four educational research centers. There are currently 510 faculty members, including 324 full-time teachers, 28 professors and associate professors, and 44.1 doctoral and master's degree candidates. There is currently 1 autonomous region-level teaching team, 6 Chinese cooking masters (28 from Xinjiang), 1 autonomous region famous teaching teacher, and 85% of "double-qualified" teachers; on average, more than 150 external industry enterprise management and technical experts and skilled craftsmen are hired every year. A teaching team with a dual-teacher structure that is specialized and complementary has been basically established. The school currently has 9,640 students enrolled in general higher vocational colleges and offers 52 majors, covering fields and directions such as automotive electromechanical, gemstone identification and processing, catering, tourism hotels, civil aviation, social work, finance, logistics, information technology, etc. The school has 5 autonomous region specialty majors, 9 autonomous region quality courses, 1 national master studio, 132 off-campus training bases, and 117 on-campus experimental training rooms. The school has a collection of 470,000 books and is building a modern high-skilled talent training network platform.

The school enrolls students in more than 20 provinces and regions across the country, and recruits general junior college (general college students) through the general college entrance examination, three-school students, independent enrollment, integration of secondary and vocational schools, five-year consistent system, "3 2", and adult college entrance examination. Higher vocational schools), secondary vocational schools and adult students. The school has achieved admission without score reduction for two consecutive years, maintained the first choice admission rate of 100 for five consecutive years, the employment rate of graduates has remained at around 90 for many years, and the employment rate of graduates of advantageous and characteristic majors has been 100. Yu Jianwen, a graduate of our school majoring in cooking, and Zhao Yingzheng, a graduate of the computer network major, were cordially received by party and state leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao in 2004 and 2006 respectively; Rehangul Yimir, a 2012 student majoring in Chinese translation She is a representative of the 12th National People's Congress and has been successively named "National Model Worker", "National Moral Model" and "The Most Beautiful Xinjiang Person". Her deeds were filmed into the TV series "There is a Guli"; a graduate of Legal Affairs Hailili Jilili was named "Anti-Terrorist Warrior" by the autonomous region.

The school always adheres to the principle of openness in running schools, strengthens cooperation and exchanges with relevant domestic and foreign educational institutions, universities and enterprises, and embodies the characteristics of modern vocational education in many aspects. In the district, the school led 25 vocational schools to form the Xinjiang Characteristic Catering Vocational Education Alliance, and established the Xinjiang Characteristic Catering School-Enterprise Cooperation Vocational Education Group with 5 colleges and 8 companies.

At the same time, it has established close school-enterprise cooperation relationships with more than 100 enterprises such as Xinjiang TBEA and Shanghai Volkswagen Xinjiang Branch; domestically, it has established close cooperation with Wuhan University of Technology, Shanghai Tourism College, Wuhan Vocational and Technical College, and Guangzhou Civil Aviation Vocational and Technical College. 10 universities and other universities have established a "many-to-one" teaching aid and joint school-running mechanism to strive for support in advantageous majors; at home and abroad, it has successively cooperated with the German Vocational Education Alliance, Volkswagen Group (China), and the German Development Bank , the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the German Phoenix Contact Group, the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry AHK (Shanghai), the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne in Switzerland, the Bates Institute of Technology in the United States, Khovd University in Mongolia, and the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology to carry out international educational exchanges and cooperation. , have successively launched the Sino-German (Xinjiang) Vocational Education Training Base (German Promotion Loan Project), the "Popular Class" Talent Training Project, the Automotive Mechanical and Electrical Talent Training Project (SGAVE), the Phoenix Contact Automation Training Center, and the Khovd, Mongolia A number of influential and effective international cooperative education projects such as the Confucius Institute at the University and the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne in Switzerland have established the Xinjiang Tourism Industry Teaching and Training Base, especially the Sino-German (Xinjiang) Vocational Education Training Base Project. The TV station’s News Network program on July 25, 2014 reported the signing of the project’s loan agreement. Through opening up the school to the outside world, the introduction of foreign investment, construction of practical training bases, teacher training, professional construction, Chinese international education, etc. have strongly promoted the overall development of the school. The school has become the first unit in the northwest region to receive a loan from the German Development Bank. , becoming the only school in the northwest region to obtain SGAVE qualification, and the only higher vocational school in the country to establish a Confucius Institute abroad.

The school has always adhered to the spirit of the school motto of "Advocating morality and advocating ability, applying what you have learned", taking serving the local economy as its own responsibility, and striving to improve its talent services, technical services, training services, and cultural services as a higher vocational college. We will provide high-quality technical and skilled talents to the front lines of production, construction, services, and management, and provide talent support and intellectual support for Xinjiang's economic and social development. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the school has provided vocational appraisal training to the public for a total of 32,000 people; the appraisal institution under the school can carry out vocational qualification appraisal for 28 types of work; a total of more than 2,000 students have been sent to teach in southern Xinjiang, and management cadres and professional teachers have been selected Counterpart assistance was provided to Moyu County Vocational High School and Maigaiti County Vocational Technical School to support the development of education in ethnic minority areas in southern Xinjiang. The work of counterpart assistance was published on the front page of Xinjiang Daily.

The school always insists that development is the first priority and stability is the first responsibility. It maintains campus harmony and stability and accelerates the overall development of the school. It has been rated as a civilized unit in the autonomous region and an advanced unit in stabilizing universities in the autonomous region for fifteen consecutive years. It has been rated as an advanced unit in safety production target management by the Autonomous Region Education Department for three consecutive years.

In accordance with the policies and measures of the country and the autonomous region on accelerating the reform of modern vocational education, Xinjiang Vocational University has further clarified its development direction during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period: adhere to open education, deepen school-enterprise cooperation, and promote domestic multi-pair First, aid education and strengthen foreign cooperation in running schools; insist on higher vocational education serving the economic and social development of the autonomous region, mainly cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents in the fields of modern service industry (producer service industry), manufacturing, cultural industry, social services, etc.; to It mainly focuses on full-time higher vocational education, and carries out applied undergraduate education, continuing education and secondary vocational education. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the number of students enrolled in higher vocational colleges will be controlled at around 10,000.

Facing the future, in the process of promoting the reform of modern vocational education, Xinjiang Vocational University will take serving the national “Belt and Road” strategy and the economic and social development of the autonomous region as its own responsibility, adhere to reform and innovation, and accelerate development. Unwavering, with teaching as the center, project construction as the support, and connotation construction as the focus, adapt to the new normal, show new achievements, strive to advance the school development to a new stage, and build the three campuses into education and teaching with respective functions and characteristics A practical training base, a safe campus suitable for teaching, learning and living, and a first-class higher vocational college in the region and well-known outside the region.