The school has obvious characteristics of light industry, based in Guangdong, facing the whole country, serving the local economy, promoting social development, adhering to the development direction of higher vocational education, adhering to the school-running concept of "high quality orientation, high skill orientation, high employment orientation and innovation promoting development", and striving to practice and innovate the talent training mode of combining work with study.
The school has 68 majors in 3 departments, including College of Art and Design, Department of Computer Engineering, Department of Light Chemical Industry, Department of Communication Engineering, Department of Food and Biological Engineering, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Department of Management Engineering, Department of Economics, Department of Tourism, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Department of Electronic Communication Engineering, Department of Automobile, and College of Continuing Education. The school cooperated with enterprises to set up training service institutions such as Hong Kong Tang Gong Hotel Management College 18. Cooperate with enterprises to establish Dongguan Weilong Logistics Equipment Research Institute and other 1 1 technical service institutions; Develop talent order training with many well-known enterprises. The school has carried out exchanges and cooperation with Britain, Germany, Australia, India, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.
The school has 1 national teaching reform pilot majors, 3 provincial demonstration majors and 4 provincial demonstration construction majors; There are 4 national excellent courses, 4 national excellent courses and1/provincial excellent courses. The school won two first prizes and two second prizes 1 for provincial excellent teaching achievements. In the past three years, the school has published 263 kinds of teaching materials and reference books for higher vocational education, and obtained 2/kloc-0 kinds of teaching materials approved by the national 11th Five-Year Plan. Undertake 19 educational reform projects at or above the provincial level.
The admission scores of the school for many years are much higher than the first batch of graduation scores of junior college students announced by the provincial recruitment office, and also higher than the undergraduate graduation scores announced by the provincial recruitment office. It is the school with the highest admission score and the first voluntary online rate in higher vocational colleges in Guangdong Province. School graduates are very popular with employers. The overall employment rate of graduates in 2006, 2007 and 2008 was 99.46%, 99.49% and 99.52% respectively.
The school implements the "double certificate" system combining academic qualifications and vocational qualification certificates, and the "double certificate" acquisition rate of middle school students majoring in "double certificate" reaches 99. 16%. The school has a national vocational skill appraisal institute awarded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, a national computer information high-tech examination station, a food biotechnology training base supported by the central government, a talent training base for numerical control technology skills shortage awarded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, a talent training base for intelligent building engineering skills shortage jointly awarded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and the Ministry of Construction, a high-skilled talent training base awarded by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Labor and Social Security, and a teacher training base for secondary vocational education in Guangdong Province. The school's software college is the Guangdong Provincial Model Software College.
The school actively provides technical services for small and medium-sized enterprises. In recent years, it has cooperated with enterprises to undertake 2 1 provincial key industrial and agricultural projects and provincial and municipal technological innovation projects, and carried out more than 1 100 technical research and development projects, among which the special fund for technological innovation in Guangzhou, which cooperates with Guangzhou Paper, supports the bidding project for technical problems of enterprises, with a contract fund of150,000 yuan; The school undertakes 1 project funded by the Ministry of Education for overseas students and 5 projects funded by Guangdong Natural Science Fund; The achievements of the school teachers' project won the Science and Technology Progress Award of China Light Industry Federation, Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award, Foshan Science and Technology Progress Award and Shantou Science and Technology Progress Award. School teachers now have 48 patents, and the number of patent applications and scientific research funds rank first and second respectively in similar universities in the province. With enterprises and institutions to build 8 science and technology service platforms, undertake 39 projects, and approve the project funds of 4.5 million yuan.
The school attaches great importance to training talents for the society. In the 2007-2008 school year, all kinds of short-term vocational skills training and on-the-job training were carried out for society, enterprises and rural labor transfer, with a total training of 19 1 16 people. The school has carried out counterpart assistance activities in specialty construction, curriculum construction, teaching management and teaching staff construction in 9 higher vocational colleges in 4 regions. As the first batch of provincial secondary vocational education teacher training bases established by Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, the school undertakes the task of training secondary vocational teachers. As of 2008, 854 backbone teachers have been trained for 240 secondary vocational schools in Guangdong Province, which has been widely praised by secondary vocational schools. In recent years, Ningxia Vocational Education Delegation, Tianjin Vocational Education Delegation, Jiangsu Vocational Education Delegation, 56 schools from other provinces, and 63 vocational colleges in the province have visited the school successively.
The school is the vice chairman of the National Light Industry Vocational Education Research Association, the director of China Light Industry Federation, the vice chairman of Guangdong Light Industry Federation, the executive director of China Higher Vocational Education Research Association and the vice chairman of Guangdong Higher Vocational Education Research Association.