Bazhong Vocational and Technical College is a full-time ordinary college approved by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government, put on record by the Ministry of Education and headed by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education. Its predecessor was Bazhong Normal School founded by 1954, Tongjiang Secondary Vocational Health School founded by 1959 and Bazhong Technical School founded by 1990.
College is located in Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, an old revolutionary base area, covering an area of 590 mu, with a building area of 265,600 square meters and a total investment of 820 million yuan. There are 45 on-campus training (experiment) rooms, more than 50 off-campus training (practice) bases, more than 3,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals, and more than 200,000 e-books (65,438 copies). Total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment130,000 yuan.
The college consists of five departments and two departments (Economic Management Department, Civil Engineering Department, Electromechanical Engineering Department, Information Engineering Department, Education Department, Ideological and Political Department and Basic Education Department) and Tongjiang Campus, offering five five-year higher vocational majors and 10 secondary vocational majors. As of July 2005, there were more than 230 full-time and part-time teachers and more than 3000 students in the college.
Purpose of running a school:
The goal of Bazhong Vocational and Technical College is to uphold the tenet of "contributing to modernization" and strive to cultivate Bazhong people with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, and scientific and humanistic qualities.
In addition to regular professional and general courses, the school provides opportunities for intellectual, physical and aesthetic study and exercise, and also provides teachers' guidance and extracurricular activities to enhance the interaction between morality, values and groups, and makes every effort to build Bazhong Campus into an academic hall with a gathering of humanities, a garden for cultivating liberal arts and professionals, an important town for innovative scientific research and development, and a base for promoting a pluralistic and progressive society.
At the same time, actively recruit outstanding talents, strengthen the construction of teaching staff, improve the quality of scientific research, teaching and service, cultivate outstanding students, provide rich campus life and stimulate students' growth opportunities, improve infrastructure, create a good scientific research environment, strengthen cooperation between industry and university, popularize humanistic care technology, grasp regional advantages, and effectively integrate existing advantages and resources, so as to make Bazhong Vocational and Technical College an excellent talent training base in Bazhong and even Sichuan.