Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College

Yiwu Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Commerce is located in Yiwu, the world's small commodity capital and a comprehensive reform pilot area for international trade. The predecessor of the school was Hangzhou University Yiwu Branch, which was founded in 1993. It covers an area of more than 1,000 acres and has a building area of 313,900 square meters. It has beautiful natural landscapes and unique architectural styles. It is a beautiful landscape and garden-style university with more than 10,000 students. . The school is a high-level vocational school in Zhejiang Province, a high-quality vocational college in Zhejiang Province, and the first batch of provincial entrepreneurial university construction pilot institutions. It ranks among the top 50 vocational colleges in the country in terms of education effectiveness, top 50 service contributions, and 50 international influence. Strong, was listed as a national university with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, was awarded as a national university practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base, and a national university cross-border e-commerce talent training model school.

The school consists of the School of Humanities and Tourism, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Information, the School of Economics and Management, the School of Foreign Languages and Trade, the School of Architecture and Engineering, the School of Creative Design (Mall Design School), the School of Entrepreneurship (E-commerce School), the School of International Education, and the School of Marxism (Physical Education). Department), including 9 teaching units, 32 enrollment majors, and a continuing education college. At present, there are 598 official teachers, 199 senior titles, 27 doctors, and 467 masters. Among them, 1 person enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council, 2 candidates for the “151 Talent Project” of the province, famous university teaching teachers and provincial teachers There are 22 rookies and professional leaders in provincial higher vocational colleges; 4 national teaching achievement awards, 6 national backbone majors, 15 national 1+X certificate system pilots, 2 national productive training bases, and the central government Support 2 training base construction projects, 1 national double teacher base, 1 national skill master studio, and 3 national quality courses.

The school closely relies on Yiwu’s market advantages, breaks conventions, pioneers and innovates, combines the reality of running a school and the market demand, and has embarked on a road of running a school with “creation” characteristics, forming three major characteristic educations: entrepreneurship education, creative education, and international education. Remarkable results have been achieved in cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talents and serving the local economy.

The school established the Entrepreneurship College in 2008, with 12,800 square meters of college students’ entrepreneurship park, opened entrepreneurship classes, entrepreneurial elite classes, professional entrepreneurship studios, a youth entrepreneurship space, Yitai Youth Exchange Center, and the “First Village of China Online Store” "Qingyan Liu University Student Entrepreneurship Base and more than 30 entrepreneurial practice bases on and off campus. Every year, nearly 20% of the students are engaged in innovative and entrepreneurial practice activities, and the entrepreneurial rate of graduates has stabilized at about 12%, ranking among the top universities in the province. School entrepreneurship education has effectively promoted the large-scale and clustered development of Yiwu's related industries. The school also serves the national poverty alleviation strategy, has carried out targeted poverty alleviation in entrepreneurship with Longnan in Gansu, Wenchuan in Sichuan, Haixi in Qinghai and other places, and undertook high-end entrepreneurship training for the Central Committee of the League and the Central Committee of the Taiwan League, which has benefited more than 50,000 people. The school was rated as one of the top 100 universities for the promotion of entrepreneurship in colleges and universities in the country, a model entrepreneurial college of ordinary universities in the province, an excellent organization unit for the province's entrepreneurship mentor cultivation project, and a demonstration base for public entrepreneurship and innovation in the province.

The Yiwu Creative Park in the school is the country's first creative cultural park with "small commodity innovative design" as the main research and development direction. The park has two national R&D platforms, the National Tourism Product R&D Center and the National Forest Product Creative R&D Center, a national master studio, more than 60 cultural and creative design institutions, product R&D technology-based enterprises, and a joint creation studio between teachers and students More than 10 are the practice bases for design students of more than 150 well-known universities such as the China Academy of Art, East China University of Science and Technology, and Guiyuan University of the Arts in South Korea. More than 2,000 internship training teachers and students are arranged every year. The park has an average annual service production enterprise of more than 3,000, with a cumulative creative output value of nearly 400 million yuan. The school and China Commodity City Group Co., Ltd. jointly established a mixed-ownership "Mall Design Academy" to effectively integrate small commodity design resources and cultivate high-level skilled talents with design and application capabilities and product development capabilities.

Since 2007, the school has enrolled international students, and has cultivated more than 9,000 international students who are knowledgeable, friendly, and highly qualified in international business. Now it enrolls and trains more than 1,200 international students every year, and its scale ranks among the top universities in the country. 70% of the students come from countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. The school offers 8 language courses such as Arabic and Spanish. It is the vocational college with the most language courses in the province, which fully meets the language learning needs of students and citizens. The school vigorously integrates into the development of "Yixin Europe", actively "going out" to run schools, and has opened the China Europe (Spain) Cross-border E-commerce Training Institute and the Sino-Western Cross-border E-commerce Training Base in Spain.

The school's distinctive features of combining regional economic development and Yiwu market has attracted wide attention and reports from domestic and foreign high-end media such as People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, New York Times, Reuters, etc. The school will adhere to the school motto of "Advocating Virtue and Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship", and strive to make strides towards the goal of first-class and high-level vocational colleges in the well-known provinces in China.