Jiangsu Vocational Institute of Architectural Technology (JSVIAT)，as a provincial government public full-time school, is one of State-level Model Higher Vocational Institute.JSVIAT is located at Xuzhou, the central city in the Huaihai economic zone an d one of the three metropolitan areas in JiangsuProvince. JSVIAT’s o rigin can be traced back to 1979 when “The Third Technology Institute of PLA Capital Construction Engineering Co rps” was established. In July 1983, the school was under the management of the fo rmer Ministry of coal industry an d renamed XuzhouCoalConstructionEngineeringSchool, an d then it was upgraded to institute level by China’s Ministry of Education in 1999. In January 2011, the school was officially renamed as Jiangsu Construction Vocational an d TechnicalCollege.

Located at Quanshan District in Xuzhou, the college covers an area of 1200 mu (80 hectares) with a gross floo r area of 400,000 square meters. The total value of teaching an d scientific research instruments an d equipment is 210 million yuan. JSVIAT has a comprehensive range of fields covering 14 secondary schools, namely,Architectural Construction, Architectural Deco ration, Architectural Intelligence, Architectural Management, Transpo rtation Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing, Info rmation an d Electronics Engineering, Art an d Design, Economic Management, Marxism, General Courses, International Education, Continuing Education, an d Innovation an d Entrepreneurship. The school gathers almost 13,000 full-time students, an d mo re than 9,800 registered students of continuing education. Based on the elegant campus environment, superio r teaching facilities, an d abundant cultural activities, so far, it has been awarded hono rary titles of “Jiangsu civilized o rganization”, “Charming campus of National Vocational Colleges”, “Harmonious campus in Jiangsu Province”, “Safety an d peaceful campus in Jiangsu Province”, “Garden-Style College in Jiangsu Province”, “ The first batch of green universities in Xuzhou”,  “Advanced o rganization of Ideological an d political education in Jiangsu Province”.  Noticeably, the college owns the co re culture of military, coal an d architecture, along with the educational cultural systems of co rpo ration an d schoolmate.

To actively implement the strategy of strengthening the college by developing people’s talents, JSVIAT enjoys a gallery of well-qualified staffs. The staff totals mo re than 795, 71 of whom have professional titles, simultaneously, 277 with associate professional titles, 70 teachers with Phd degrees, an d 567 with master degrees. It boasts of one “State-level Outstan ding Teaching Team”, five “Provincial-level Outstan ding Teaching Team”, six “State-level Model Teacher” an d “Provincial-level Model Teacher”, an d three “Middle-aged Expert with Prominent Contribution in JiangsuProvince”. There are also four provincial Blue Project scientific an d technological innovation teams as well as nine Provincial six talent peaks high level talent training academic team. The school has won the hono rary title of “advanced university in JiangsuProvince fo r the construction of teaching staff” fo r four times in a row, an d is designated as national teacher training base of  higher vocational colleges.

Fundamentally, JSVIAT concentrates on the task of cultivating students with mo rality, which aims to the connotation construction of specialized courses, an d the development of international celebrated majo rs, bran d majo rs an d special local-needed majo rs. Along with the development of the college, 3 construction professional clusters an d 16 majo r clusters have been constructed. Presently, the college owns 1 national high-level professional group with Chinese characteristics, 4 national demonstration construction programs, 2 central government financially suppo rted construction programs, 4 modern apprenticeship pilot programs from the Ministry of Education, two phase I project approval majo rs of Jiangsu university bran d construction, 7 provincial high-level backbone majo rs, an d 1 special need leading majo r of Xuzhou City.  JSVIAT has also carried out “3+2” higher vocational step training pilot with Jiangsu No rmal University an d Nanjing Tech University in the field of Electrical Automation Technology, Hospitality Management, Construction Engineering Technology; “3+3”   secondary vocational joint training pilot in the majo r of Steel Structural Engineering Technology, Intelligent Building Engineering Technology, Mechanical an d Electronic Integration Technology, Quantity Surveying, an d Computer Netwo rking Technology with 8 secondary vocational schools in Xuzhou. The college has won 18 teaching achievement prizes an d 35 quality courses at state an d provincial level, 20 published national planning textbooks of vocational education, an d 32 quality textbooks at o r above the provincial level. Acco rding to the achievements, it has been hono rably awarded as the “State-level Advanced o rganization of Vocational Education” an d “Jiangsu Advanced College of Teaching”.

JSVIAT attaches great impo rtance to the construction of practice teaching conditions fo r the integration of production, learning, research, training an d creation, an d creates high-level teaching guarantee conditions. Equipped with 109 labo rato ries, 6 broad catego ries of practicing bases, namely, construction engineering, mechanical an d electrical engineering, info rmation media, economic management, environmental engineering, an d mine mechatronics, cover about 100,984 square meters an d own  15,737 sets of instruments. At present, there are 2 national training bases of construction engineering technology an d coal mine safety technology; 2 provincial vocational integration of industry education training platfo rms; 1 open shared training base of Jiangsu construction engineering area, 1 concrete structure construction technology municipal vocational education production an d education integration training platfo rm, an d 1 national vocational skill appraisal institute. The college has built a BIM center an d BIM big data innovation base in Huaihai Economic Zone, built a BIM training center of China Housing Construction Association, an d newly added 8 1+X professional certificate system pilots. As the leading o rganization, JSVIAT has established Jiangsu Construction Vocational Education Group an d Huaihai Sservice Outsourcing Vocational Education Group, which are “Secretary general o rganization of Cooperation Association of Higher Vocational Colleges in Huaihai Economic Zone”,  “Directo r general o rganization of the National Association of Higher Vocational College Journals”, “National Construction Industry Skills Training Base” an d “Jiangsu Construction Industrialization Training Base”.

As the scientific an d technological innovation continues to accelerate, the college gives great impetus on its service capabilities an d attaches great impo rtance to the integration of industries, schools, research, drills an d creation. During the past 5 years, 586 scientific research projects, including 233 ho rizontal scientific research projects have been successfully approved, mo re than 23 million yuan an d 56 million yuan of technical services have been received. Besides, it has 4 PCT(Patent Cooperation Treaty) , 204 inventions, 1974 patents, 564 software copyrights an d 22 construction methods. Suppo rted by the national higher vocational college teacher training base, the national vocational skill appraisal institute an d JiangsuProvince construction industrialization talent training base, mo re than 37,000 people have been successfully trained in the past 3 years. Currently, there is 1 Jiangsu collabo rative innovation center an d 52 provincial an d municipal scientific research platfo rms. In recent years, JSVIAT has won 69 provincial an d municipal science an d technology progress awards an d science technology awards. The total amount of patent autho rization ranks the first in the province’s higher vocational colleges, the second in the country's higher vocational colleges, an d the college has won the hono rary title of “AdvancedCollege of science an d technology in JiangsuProvince” fo r eight consecutive years

To promote the education internationalization an d expan d the channels fo r international communication an d cooperation, JSVIAT has built cooperation relationship with 40 overseas higher institutions, such as SouthLanarkshireCollege in the UK, Institute of Technology Carlow in Irelan d, Queenslan dUniversity in Australia, University of Management an d Economics in Cambodia, Technical College of Vientiane Province in Laos. Equipped with 4 Sino-Fo reign Cooperative Education Projects, JSVIAT also adopts “3+0” an d “2+1” programs with top overseas universities, which has admitted mo re than 700 international students from 19 countries. In addition, JSVIAT is also provincial level unit of “Talents fo r Special Purpose” in Jiangsu ,the first batch of “China-ASEAN vocational colleges” an d Jiangsu Provincial Government Scholarship. On one han d, the college encourages students to study abroad an d there are about 218 students who have the experiences of studying abroad; on the other han d, the college encourages teachers to do the teaching jobs o r do some cooperative study abroad an d there are 530 teachers who have the experiences of overseas training in mo re than 20 countries an d areas. Besides, JSVIAT has established 5 branch campuses in Laos an d Cambodia, where a “China-Cambodia Culture an d LanguageResearchCenter” is located. Chinese teachers are responsibly stationed fo r a long time to provide language an d skill training fo r fo reign teachers an d students.

With the motto of cultivating students’ comprehensive quality & improving technical skills, an d the spirit of pursuing truth an d innovation, JSVIAT focuses on training high-quality technical an d technical talents who has thick foundation, excellent skills, an d strong enough to bear hardships. The college adheres to the principle of “to provide the most suitable education fo r each student, to make every student get the fullest development”. In recent years, the quality of talents cultivation has increasingly improved. Among all kinds of skill competitions, the students of JSVIAT have achieved remarkable results including 12 state-level first prizes, 13 provincial level first prizes, 17 first prizes in national industry competitions etc. The college insists on employment o rientation, so it contributes to building nearly 600 stable training bases, which are technically advanced. Based on the cooperation with 29 well-known large-scale enterprises, the college has set up 50 enterprise-institutions an d o rder-cultivation classes so as to facilitate the emerging of the high-quality technical talents, which are in a sho rt supply. The college has built 36 Domestic Alumni Clubs an d 1 Overseas Alumni Association to actively build a platfo rm fo r the sustainable development of graduates. Graduates of JSVIAT are mainly employed in JiangsuProvince an d East of China, an d are mostly favo red by employers. Many graduates have made achievements in well-known enterprises such as XCMG, Vanke Group, Third Engineering Bureau of China Construction , Eighth Engineering Bureau of China Construction, Tenth Engineering Bureau of China Railway, China Coal Construction Group, etc. Acco rding to the survey of autho ritative institutions, our graduates' professional counterpart rate, salary, employment competitiveness index, satisfaction & recommendation fo r alma mater an d other data are all in the fo refront of similar universities in the province. It’s wo rth mentioning thatthe college has been hono red as the advanced collective of College Students' employment wo rk in Jiangsu Province fo r 8 consecutive years an d its famous employment pracitices has evaluated as the model college by the Ministry of Education.

In recent years, JSVIAT has been rated as one of the top 50 Vocational Colleges in China in terms of Employment, Teaching Resources, Social Service Contribution, International Influence an d Influence in Asia Pacific vocational colleges. In September 2017, the college party committee put fo rward  building a first-class national famous vocational school  as the goal , an d planned to implement six development strategies , that is  strengthening the school with talents, innovation an d promotion, serving the local areas, info rmatization, internationalization an d happiness sharing to accelerate the college overall development . Entering a new era, JSVIAT will further emancipate their minds, comprehensively deepen refo rm, take mo rality education as the fundamental task, strive to promote high-quality development, an d strive to build a first-class national famous vocational college.