Introduction to Fuzhou Institute of Vocational Technology
Fuzhou Institute of Vocational Technology (FIVT) is a full-time general higher vocational school approved by the People's Government of Fujian Province, filed with the Ministry of Education and organized by the People's Government of Fuzhou City. The school is located in Fuzhou University Town, with a campus area of 1122.08 acres (400 acres of which are under requisition) and a total building area of about 191,400 square meters. The school has 10 secondary colleges, including Alibaba Big Data College, Fuzhou Sino-European Aviation College, Robotics College, College of Electromechanical Engineering, College of Transportation Engineering, College of Architectural Engineering, College of International Education, College of Business, College of Culture and Creativity, and College of Special Education. The school enrolls students from this province and 14 provinces and autonomous regions, including Yunnan, Shanxi, Guangxi, Henan, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Anhui, Hainan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Tibet and Xinjiang, enrolling 36 majors and 44 international students. Existing faculty and staff of 514 people; full-time high school students more than 9,000, more than 9,400 students of various types of adult education.
The school is an excellent school for the first round of the national assessment of the level of talent cultivation work of higher vocational colleges and universities, the first batch of modern apprenticeship pilot units of the Ministry of Education, won the national deepening of innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration colleges and universities, the top 50 national vocational colleges and universities of internship management, the national graduates of the typical experience of employment colleges and universities, and successfully hosted the National Higher Education College Principals' Joint Meeting Annual Meeting 2018, and was selected as a member of the Bureau of the meeting Units. The university was awarded the first place in the assessment of demonstrative modern vocational colleges in Fujian Province in 2018, the first place in the 5 key construction project colleges of demonstrative modern vocational colleges in Fujian Province, and the first place in the initial employment rate of the graduates of the class of 2017 (87 colleges and universities in Fujian Province). For 8 consecutive years, it has won the first prize of the group in the Skills Competition of Higher Vocational Colleges in Fujian Province, and tied for the 16th and 19th place in the National Vocational Colleges Skills Competition in 2017 and 2018. The initial employment rate of graduates is over 98%, and the satisfaction rate of employers is over 99%. In the "Internet +" college students innovation and entrepreneurship, Chinese vocational education innovation and entrepreneurship competitions such as the results ranked in the province's higher vocational colleges and universities in the forefront.
The school practiced the school motto of "Mingde, sharp tools, solidity, and sure-footedness", and adhered to the school philosophy of "seeking support by service, seeking development by innovation". It has built a "tripartite linkage" mode of school running among the government, enterprises and schools, and set up the "Fuzhou Vocational and Technical College Government-School-Enterprise Cooperation Council" with the mayor as the chairman of the council, the deputy mayor in charge as the chairman of the executive council, and the participation of 29 government departments and more than 50 leading enterprises in the related industries. The "Council of Government-School-Enterprise Cooperation in School Running" of Fuzhou Institute of Vocational Technology has been established jointly with relevant government departments, industries and enterprises; the "Government-School-Enterprise Cooperation Working Committee" of four industries and two parks, as well as the Elevator Vocational Education Group of Fujian Province have been established, and the "Government-School-Enterprise Cooperation Working Committee" of Fuzhou Institute of Vocational Technology has been established jointly with the Alibaba Group, Baidu, Microsoft, China-Europa Airline, ACE Networks, Northern Tiantu, Xunda Elevator, Fuzhou Metro, Southeast Automobile, Fujian Jinke Group, NetDragon and other famous enterprises*** to train talents. The first university in China to cooperate with Alibaba to set up Alibaba Big Data College, the first university in China to cooperate with Microsoft to set up Microsoft Innovation College (mixed ownership mode), and the first vocational college in China to cooperate with Baidu to set up "Baidu Cloud Artificial Intelligence Applied Technology Collaborative Innovation Center".
The school closely follows the national development strategy, takes full advantage of the region and its own strengths, and deepens external exchanges and cooperation. With Australia's Dr. Hill College, to carry out the "3 + 2" project, and with the New Zealand Business School, the University of Lincoln (Lincoln University, Massey University, one of the two) to carry out the "3 + 1 + 1" special master's cooperation program. Overseas Luban Colleges or branch campuses have been established in cooperation with universities in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Hungary. It also carries out exchanges and cooperation with a number of foreign institutions for international students, exchange students, teacher and staff training, etc. It recruits and trains international students with specialized qualifications for the "Belt and Road" and friendly countries in Africa, covering 12 majors, such as international business, computer network technology, and so on.
The school has deepened the three cultural connotations of "Inspiration to Success", "Craftsmanship to Build Dreams" and "Love and Dedication", and established two bases of national intangible cultural heritages, namely, Fuzhou Dialect and Fuzhou Miaoyi, and two bases of Fujian Opera. It has established two national intangible cultural heritage bases, namely Fuzhou Dialect and Fuzhou Mistletoe, as well as a demonstration base for the teaching of Fujian opera, and the student opera club has been selected as the governing unit of the National Union of University Opera Clubs. The results of campus culture won the national university campus culture construction excellent results award and was selected by the Ministry of Education "national vocational college campus culture excellent case collection".
The school gives full play to the significant role of vocational education in poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation. It pairs up with Ningxia Finance and Economics Vocational and Technical College, South China Women's College, Ningde Vocational and Technical College, Minbei Vocational and Technical College, and Zhouning Vocational Secondary School to implement precise assistance in party building and ideology and politics, professional construction, teacher training, school-enterprise cooperation, and vocational training, etc. The school emphasizes social service and brand image. The school attaches importance to social service and brand image, and in 2017, it was named a provincial vocational education teacher training and training base, vigorously carrying out teacher training, vocational training, vocational skills appraisal and vocational qualification certification. Municipal government attached to the school was established in Fuzhou City Community University, to create a provincial and municipal lifelong education brand, the school's brand effect and social influence is rising year by year.