Three gorges vocational college of electric power is a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning approved by Hubei Provincial People's Government and put on record by People's Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of Education. The campus is located at the top of Dongshan Mountain in the center of Yichang, Hubei Province, the world hydropower capital. It covers an area of 429 mu, with a total construction area of 1.7 million square meters. Campus scenery is pleasant all year round, birds and flowers are fragrant, which not only brings the charm of Xiushan Lishui, but also has the aura of a hydropower city. This is an ideal place to study.
The college has established the school-running philosophy of "market-oriented, students-oriented, ability-oriented, and promoting development with characteristics". There are six teaching units, including power engineering department, power engineering department, architectural engineering department, electromechanical engineering department, economic management department and environmental art department, and higher vocational majors such as water conservancy and hydropower engineering, power plant and power system, thermal power plant and tourism English are set up. The college currently has more than 10000 students.
The college has a team of "double-qualified" teachers with high professional theoretical level and rich practical teaching experience. At present, there are 468 registered teaching and administrative staff, of which 55% are full-time teachers with associate senior titles or above, 80% are professional teachers with professional practical skill level certificates or related work experience, and 50% have participated in key water conservancy and electric power projects. The college has also hired 40 technical experts from hydropower industry and enterprises and institutions as visiting professors. In recent years, the college has completed more than 80 national, provincial and municipal scientific research projects, compiled and published more than 50 teaching reform textbooks, and students have won more than 200 prizes in various national and provincial vocational skills competitions. Among them, "Fundamentals of Hydraulic Technology" won the first prize in the textbook reform of the Ministry of Labor, and the computer software "Tower crane rail clamp Automatic Control Device" developed by teachers has been widely used in the Three Gorges Project. Students won the first prize in the "National Electronic Design Competition for College Students" organized by the Ministry of Education.
Adhering to the characteristic school-running idea of relying on the industry, facing the society and serving the power industry based on the Three Gorges area, the College has vigorously developed the talent training mode of "teaching and doing" integrating "task-driven", "project-oriented" and "internship", trained more than 20,000 outstanding graduates for the power system and the whole society, and implemented more than 60,000 vocational trainings. Since the new century, the employment rate of college graduates has been above 93%, and graduates are all over the country. Most of them are employed by large power enterprises, hydropower systems and well-known factories and mines with high level, high skills and high wages, and are generally welcomed by employers. At present, China Gezhouba Group Company, Hunan Thermal Power Construction Company, Jiangxi Hydropower Engineering Bureau, Guizhou Power Grid Transmission and Distribution Company, Hubei Yihua Group, Zhongnan Precision Steel Pipe Factory and other units 100 have become the main employment units for students.
Our institute was awarded "Demonstration School of Electric Power Vocational and Technical Education" by former Ministry of Electric Power, "Advanced Collective of Vocational Education" by Hubei Provincial People's Government, "Advanced School of Logistics Management" by Hubei Provincial Department of Education and "Garden Unit" by Yichang Municipal People's Government. In 2007, China Vocational and Technical Education Association elected College as the governing unit, and China Electric Power Association recognized College as the first batch of "training base for high-skilled personnel in electric power industry".
At present, the teachers and students of the whole college are adhering to the strategic thought of "education should face the world, modernization and the future" and the school motto of "diligence, generalist, honesty and fitness", working hard and pioneering, and striving to make the college a well-known higher vocational college in electric power with distinctive characteristics, provincial demonstration and national fame!