Located in Datong, the ancient city beyond the Great Wall, Yanbei Coal Industry School in the western province is a national key secondary specialized school. The school was founded in 198 1 year, covering an area of 120 mu, with a building area of 55,000 square meters and fixed assets of more than 27 million yuan. The school has 3600 students and 223 faculty members, including teachers 137, 45 with senior titles, 50 with intermediate titles and 42 with double qualifications. The school now offers 14 majors, including computer and application, computer network technology, accounting, electronic technology application, survey engineering technology, industrial and civil architecture, mining technology, mine ventilation and safety, property management, mineral resources management, building economic management, environmental management technology, electromechanical technology application, electromechanical equipment installation and maintenance, and offers five-year vocational classes. Affiliated to Yanyun Middle School, Coal Mine Special Worker and Technician Training Center and National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute.

Since its establishment 24 years ago, the school has delivered more than 7,600 outstanding graduates with both ability and political integrity to the society. Most of them have become technical backbones in all walks of life, especially in the coal industry, and some students have grown into advanced pacesetters in the national coal front and provincial model workers. The school has been commended and rewarded by superiors for many times:/kloc-0 was awarded as an advanced unit by Datong Municipal Committee and Municipal Government every year from 1994 to 2004,/kloc-0 was awarded as an advanced unit of technical secondary school education in 9 1-95 by Provincial Coal Department in 1996,/kloc-0 was awarded as the first batch of spiritual civilization schools by Provincial Education Committee in 1998, and was awarded as the first batch of spiritual civilization schools by Provincial Education Department and Provincial Education Department in 2006. In 2006, it was awarded as an advanced unit of vocational education by the Provincial Department of Education, the Provincial Department of Labor and Social Security and the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission in 2003, and was approved as a national key middle school by the Ministry of Education in 2004.

The school library is rich in books, periodicals and magazines, with a collection of more than 60,000 volumes. It also has a first-class language lab, four multimedia classrooms, a computer network center with more than 350 multimedia computers, an audio-visual film center, and classes with televisions and projectors. There are twelve specialized laboratories in physics, chemistry, architecture, electrical and electronics, ventilation and safety, mining and transportation, coal mine, geological survey and mechanical processing, with good experimental conditions and advanced teaching methods, which cultivate students' practical ability.

The school strives for survival by quality, development by characteristics and quality by management. In internal management, a series of incentive measures have been taken, such as quantitative assessment, survival of the fittest, and competition for posts. Measures such as competition for middle-level cadres, low employment of teachers in higher vocational colleges, low employment in higher vocational colleges, and elimination of the last place have been implemented, which effectively mobilized the enthusiasm of the faculty; In teaching, strict scholarship, strict teaching, active teaching reform, and constantly improve the quality of education and teaching. The school adopts CBE teaching mode, and makes bold reforms in curriculum and experimental practice means, reducing classroom teaching hours and expanding experimental hours, and arranging teaching according to the ratio of teaching and practice of 1: 1. In order to meet the market demand, the school adheres to the direction of "based on the industry and serving the society", and according to the needs of economic structure, it puts forward that "specialty setting follows the economy and talent training revolves around the market", and the employment rate of graduates reaches over 90%.