The college focuses on higher vocational and technical education, and has six departments and two departments, namely, Information Engineering College, Jewelry College, Art and Design College, Business Administration Department, Finance and Economics Department, Tourism Management Department, Applied Foreign Languages Department, Mechanical and Electronic Department, Architectural Engineering Department, Ideological Education Department and Basic Courses Department. There are 42 majors that closely meet the needs of industrial structure and social development in the Pearl River Delta region. Among them, toy design and manufacturing, computer network technology, financial management and practice, decorative art design, hotel management, jewelry technology and appraisal are the key construction majors in the "National Model Higher Vocational College Construction Plan", as well as 2 pilot majors of higher vocational education reform of the Ministry of Education, 4 demonstration majors of higher vocational education in Guangdong Province, 5 provincial demonstration construction majors and 6 municipal demonstration majors. At present, the college has 1 1 national excellent courses, 17 provincial excellent courses and 27 municipal excellent courses.
The college openly recruits outstanding teachers for the whole country, and has a team of teachers with capable personnel, reasonable structure and high level. More than 35% of full-time teachers have senior professional titles, more than 50% of young teachers have doctoral and master's degrees, and the proportion of "double-qualified" teachers in full-time teachers is as high as 7 1.5%. There are 2 experts enjoying the special allowance of the State Council, national college teachers 1 person, national teaching team 1 person, 3 famous college teachers in Guangdong Province and 6 outstanding teachers in Nanyue, Guangdong Province. In recent years, college teachers have published 270 textbooks of all kinds, and 20 textbooks have been selected for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan of general higher education.
The college adheres to the connotative development path of coordinated development of quality, scale and benefit, strengthens quality consciousness, takes teachers as the leading factor, takes students as the main body, and aims to cultivate students' innovative spirit and professional ability, and actively explores teaching reform. Since 2003, * * * has won 22 national, provincial and municipal teaching achievement awards, including the national teaching achievement award 1, in Guangdong Province.
Adhering to the service tenet, the College is the national computer applications and software technical field skilled personnel training base, the national toy industry talent training base, the first batch of provincial-level demonstration software colleges in Guangdong Province, the Guangzhou mold professional continuing education base, and the Guangzhou secondary vocational school teacher training base. A national vocational skill appraisal institute has been established, which can carry out vocational qualification appraisal for 42 types of jobs.
Focusing on the training goal of high-skilled talents with "one skill plus comprehensive quality", the college implements a talent training model based on quality, with ability as the core and employment as the orientation, and actively promotes the "double certificate" system to cultivate students' professional skills. Graduates have strong adaptability, practical ability and comprehensive quality, which are generally welcomed by employers. Since Guangdong Province announced the employment rate of college graduates for the first time in 20001,the employment rate of college graduates has been in the forefront of universities in the province. In 2004 and 2005, it ranked first among all universities in the province for two consecutive years, and in 2008, it ranked first among universities in the province with a high employment rate of 99.88%.
Former Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman Henry Fok, Macau Chief Executive He Houhua, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Committee members Chan Sui Kau, He Tian, He Shanheng and other compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao and people of insight from all walks of life gave great attention and strong support to the construction of the college, and donated money to build a number of teaching training rooms and student dormitories such as Henry Fok Academic Exchange Center and He Houhua Building, which greatly promoted the development of the college.
Characteristics of running a school: adhere to the connotative development path of coordinated development of quality, scale and benefit.
There are 6 national demonstration majors, 2 teaching reform pilot majors of the Ministry of Education, 9 provincial demonstration majors and 6 municipal demonstration majors; Have 15 national excellent courses, 25 provincial excellent courses and 40 municipal excellent courses; There are 29 on-campus training bases and 347 off-campus training bases. At present, there are 2 national teaching teams, including 2 experts enjoying special government allowance from the State Council, 1 national university teachers and 5 teachers from Guangdong universities. In recent years, school teachers have published 273 kinds of textbooks, and 20 kinds of textbooks have become the national planning textbooks for general higher education in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. Since 200 1, * * has won 30 national, provincial and municipal teaching achievement awards, including 2 national teaching achievement second prizes and 6 Guangdong teaching achievement first prizes.
The specialties offered by the school have been fully demonstrated, which is a popular specialty urgently needed by the economic development of the Pearl River Delta. Since Guangdong Province announced the employment rate of college graduates for the first time in 20001,the employment rate of college graduates has been in the forefront of universities in the province, ranking first among all universities in the province in 2004, 2005 and 2008. 20 10 Huang Dezhi, a graduate of mold design and manufacturing 200 1 0, won the honor of "National Model Worker" and was commended by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in the Great Hall of the People. 20 10 College was awarded the title of "Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates in Guangdong Province" by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education.