Jiangsu Vocational College of Marine Technology

Jiangsu Vocational and Technical College of Shipping is located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, a famous education town with beautiful scenery. It is a full-time general college approved by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province.

Jiangsu Vocational and Technical College of Shipping is a full-time general college approved by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. The school is located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, a livable garden city in the beautiful Yangtze River Delta region, a famous "sports town", "education town", "architecture town" and "longevity town". The school is affiliated to the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation. Its predecessor was the Jiangsu Nantong River Transport School founded in 1960. In 1979, it began to transform into a professional education for maritime transportation. In 1989, it was renamed Jiangsu Nantong Shipping School. In 1996, it was established as one of the first pilot schools for higher vocational teaching classes in the country. In 2000, it was upgraded to Nantong Shipping Vocational and Technical College, and in 2020, it was renamed. The spirit of maritime craftsmanship transcends time and space, and maritime vocational education is passed on from generation to generation. For more than 60 years, generations of people in the Navigation Academy have adhered to the concept of maritime education of the famous educator Mr. Zhang Jian - the school motto of "self-encouragement and self-struggle, and strive to connect China and the West", and rushed to the ocean from here.

The school enjoys a high reputation among domestic higher vocational colleges and has a high academic status. It is a construction unit of high-level higher vocational schools with Chinese characteristics, a national high-quality higher vocational college, the first batch of national demonstration (backbone) higher vocational colleges, the first batch of national transportation vocational education demonstration colleges, the first batch of Jiangsu Province demonstration higher vocational colleges, and the first batch of Jiangsu Province High-level Higher Vocational College Construction Unit. It is the chairman unit of the National Navigation Vocational Education Group, the chairman unit of the Vocational Education Branch of the China Transportation Vocational Education Research Association, the executive vice chairman (legal person) unit of the Jiangsu Navigation Society, and the chairman unit of the Jiangsu Zheng He Research Association. It has been awarded the "Top 50 in China" 10 times in terms of comprehensive strength, employment quality, international influence, service contribution, teaching resources, and student satisfaction.

The school adheres to the school-running orientation of "based on transportation, serving the local area, facing the whole country, and going to the world", closely focusing on the national development strategies such as "a strong transportation country", "a strong ocean country", "a strong shipping country", and "integration of the Yangtze River Delta", and takes the delivery of high-quality and high-quality technical and skilled talents for the construction of a comprehensive transportation system as its school-running purpose, forming a professional layout of "taking water transportation majors as the main body, land transportation majors and aviation majors as the two wings, and coordinated development of various majors". It has 1 national characteristic high-level professional group construction site, 4 key majors of national backbone higher vocational colleges, 9 national backbone majors, 3 national transportation demonstration majors, and 2 key majors supported by the central government to enhance the ability of professional service industry development, which is unique among higher vocational colleges in the country.

The school campus covers an area of ​​nearly 1,000 acres, and the school building area is more than 350,000 square meters. There are 6 national vocational education training bases, 14 provincial vocational education training bases, and 6 Nantong key laboratories; there are more than 10 provincial and municipal science and technology service institutions such as Jiangsu Ship Engineering Technology Research and Development Center; there are more than 40 on-campus training bases and more than 200 off-campus internship and employment bases; in cooperation with enterprises, three productive teaching practice ships, "Hai Lan Zhi Zhou", "Changyang Gate" and "Changchun Gate", have been built.

The school currently has nearly 12,000 full-time general education students and more than 3,700 adult education students. It has 7 secondary colleges including Navigation Technology, Marine Engineering, Ship and Ocean Engineering, Transport Management and Economics, Traffic Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing and Information, Humanities and Arts, and two public course teaching units, the School of Marxism and the Basic Teaching Department, with a total of 40 majors. The school has established and operated the education quality management system and the training quality management system in accordance with the ISO9001 quality standard, the State Maritime Safety Administration and the Norwegian Classification Society quality management rules, and obtained the quality system certificate. In 2020, the school's characteristic quality system diagnosis and improvement cases were rated as "National Vocational College Teaching Diagnosis and Improvement Excellent Typical Cases" by the Ministry of Education.

The school currently has 468 full-time teachers, including 60 senior professional titles, more than 50% of whom have senior professional titles, 75.2% of whom have master's degrees or above, and 81.8% of professional teachers have "double-qualified" qualifications. The school has a large number of high-level leading talents in higher vocational education, including 3 recipients of the State Council Special Allowance, 5 national leaders of higher vocational education in transportation, 4 national famous teachers of transportation vocational education, 3 famous teachers of higher education institutions in Jiangsu Province, 10 Jiangsu craftsmen, 21 famous teachers of the transportation system in Jiangsu Province, 12 famous teachers of Nantong universities, 12 high-level talents of Jiangsu Province's "333 High-level Talent Training Project", 12 young and middle-aged academic leaders of Jiangsu Province's "Blue and Green Project", 12 technical experts in Jiangsu Province, candidates for the "100 Talent Project" in the transportation system of Jiangsu Province, and more than 60 other outstanding talents of all levels and types. It has 1 national-level vocational education teacher teaching team, 7 Jiangsu Province excellent teaching teams, and 6 Jiangsu Province science and technology innovation teams. The school's professional teachers actively participated in major national projects and engineering. One person participated in the Gulf of Aden escort, 6 people participated in the national Antarctic and Arctic scientific expeditions, and 2 people participated in the South China Sea island reclamation project.

The school has made outstanding achievements in education and teaching reform. It has taken the lead in building a national teaching resource library and formulating 5 national professional teaching standards such as marine engineering technology, ship machinery engineering technology, water transportation and maritime management, port machinery and automatic control, and port and waterway engineering technology; it has 6 national boutique online open courses, curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, and 29 provincial online open courses, curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, and English-taught boutique courses; in 2014 and 2018, it won the first prize of national teaching achievements for two consecutive sessions, and it is the only double champion of national transportation vocational colleges; in 2021, two textbooks won the first prize and second prize of the first National Textbook Construction Award respectively.

The school has training institutions (bases) such as "National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute", "National Transportation Industry Vocational Skills Appraisal Station of the Ministry of Transport", "Nantong Training Base of the Education Management Information Center of the Ministry of Education", "Nantong Training Base of China Maritime Service Center", "Education and Training Base of Jiangsu Province Waterway Skilled Talents", "Jiangsu Province Seafarer Training Center", "Nantong Distance Learning Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University Network College", and "Personalized Training Base for Retired Soldiers in Jiangsu Province". The annual vocational training scale reaches more than 20,000 people.

The school has carried out extensive international exchange activities, carried out in-depth Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, and actively explored innovative ways to internationalize education. It is a member unit of the Global Maritime Education and Training Federation, and 6 majors implement international student education. Under the "Belt and Road" initiative, it serves enterprises to go global, and has jointly built the "Sino-Singapore (Nantong) International Maritime Training Center" cross-border school-enterprise community entity, and established overseas "Luban Workshops" in Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries. At present, it has established good inter-school cooperation and exchange relations with more than 30 universities in more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, Malaysia, and Australia.

The school actively implements talent training models such as "two-way four-stage", "three-layer six-stage factory-school integration", "virtual and real alternation", deepens school-enterprise cooperation, integrates production and education, strives to cultivate high-quality technical and skilled talents, and actively serves the local social and economic development. It is a pilot college of the national "1+X" certificate system. The employment rate of graduates has always remained above 98%, with high employment quality and high employment matching rate. It has been rated as an advanced collective for employment of college graduates in Jiangsu Province for four consecutive times, and has been rated as one of the top 50 colleges with typical experience in graduate employment in the country. Over the past three years, students from the School of Navigation have won 60 first prizes in various national and provincial competitions; in 2019, they won the national college group championship in the fifth China Seafarer Skills Competition; in 2021, they won the gold medal in the national finals of the seventh China International "Internet+" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition; in terms of talent training and innovation, the school has always been at the forefront of national maritime vocational education.

In recent years, the school has won more than 100 national, provincial and municipal honorary titles, including the National Advanced Unit of Vocational Education, the National Advanced Collective of Transportation System, the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Award, the Advanced Unit of Jiangsu Province's Colleges and Universities' Faculty Team Building, the Advanced College of Jiangsu Province's Teaching Work, the Advanced College of Jiangsu Province's Science and Technology Work, the Advanced Unit of Jiangsu Province's Student Aid Work, the Advanced Collective of Jiangsu Province's Colleges and Universities' Logistics Work, the Advanced School of Jiangsu Province's Education International Cooperation and Exchange, the Advanced Unit of Jiangsu Province's Vocational Skills Appraisal Work, the Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province, the Harmonious Campus of Jiangsu Province's Colleges and Universities, and the Advanced School of Moral Education of Jiangsu Province.

The spirit of the School of Aeronautics: self-encouragement, hard work, solidarity, and courage to stand at the forefront