Located in Shijingshan District of Beijing, Beijing Polytechnic College is an ordinary higher vocational school organised by the Beijing Municipal Government, and is one of the first independent higher vocational colleges and national model higher vocational colleges in China. It is the first independent higher vocational institution in China and a national model higher vocational institution. The school was formerly known as Beijing Coal Industry School, which was founded in 1956 under the Ministry of Coal Industry, and started to organise higher vocational education in 1994, and was formally restructured into a college of vocational technology in 1999. The school now has seven faculties (departments) and colleges of continuing education and international education, with five professional groups covering eight major categories and 27 majors, forming a unique professional system oriented to the fields of urban construction, operation, management and service, with engineering majors as the main focus and the coordinated development of different disciplines, such as engineering, management, literature, law and so on.
In 2000, Beijing Polytechnic College was identified by the Ministry of Education as one of the first batch of model vocational and technical colleges construction units in China, in 2002, it was identified as one of the model colleges with key support from the state finance, in 2003, it was identified as one of the 8 excellent colleges in China in the assessment of the level of talent cultivation work of the first batch of higher vocational colleges and universities, and in 2007, it became the one hundred ’ National Model Higher Vocational Colleges and Universities’ in 2007, became one of the first three higher vocational colleges and universities to pilot the project of through-train cultivation of high-end technical and skilled talents in Beijing in 2015, was identified by the Ministry of Education as one of the first batch of pilot projects of vocational education “going out” in 2016, and became a “featured high-level vocational college” in Beijing in 2019. In 2016, it was identified by the Ministry of Education as one of the first pilot project schools of ‘going out’ in vocational education, and in 2019, it became the construction unit of ‘high-level vocational school with special characteristics’ in Beijing. It has been awarded the Top 50 National Colleges and Universities for Employment Work, Top 50 National Teaching Management, Top 50 National Teaching Resources, and Top 50 Asia-Pacific Vocational Colleges and Universities for Influence. The school is also renowned for its achievements in the National Vocational College Teachers‘ Teaching Ability Competition and Students’ Skills Competition. The school’s main running indicators and comprehensive running strength are in the forefront of similar institutions in China, and it is one of the most influential higher vocational colleges and universities in the country.
