Nanchong Vocational and Technical College (NVTC) is a full-time higher education institute. It is located in Nanchong city (the Silk City), which is the central city in the northeast of Sichuan province. NVTC mainly focuses on higher vocational and technical education. Also, it actively carries on social services such as continuing education and social training. Nowadays, there are 14,427 full-time students in the college, and the college welcomes the students from all over the world.

NVTC is a wonderful place for you to live and study. That’s because Nanchong is an excellent tourist city in China, a nationally designated garden city, a national clean energy demonstration city and one of the excellent cities of higher education in Sichuan province. Nanchong is a city with a profound cultural accumulation and rich flavor of the humanism in China. It is the birthplace of the Three Kingdoms Culture and the Spring Festival Culture. It also has earned the worldwide popularity for the Northern Sichuan Giant Puppet, Northern Sichuan Lantern Opera, Northern Sichuan Paper-cuts and Northern Sichuan Shadow Puppetry. Nanchong is also a remarkable place nurturing outstanding people. It’s the hometown of Zhu De (one of the founding fathers of the People’s Republic of China), Zhang Lan (a renowned democratic revolutionist) and Luo Ruiqing (a general of the People’s Liberation Army).

NVTC has a complete range of disciplines as well as many distinctive specialties. The college consists of 9 schools: the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the School of Finance and Economics, the School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, the School of Teacher Education, the School of Civil and Constructional Engineering, the School of Electric and Computer Engineering, the School of Foreign languages, the School of Arts and Communication, the School of Automotive and Traffic Engineering. Subordinating to each school, there are 45 specialties in total . Preschool Education and Architectural Engineering Technology are the key construction disciplinary areas of the Ministry of Education of the PRC as well as the Ministry of Finance of the PRC. Accounting is the provincial key specialty. The 8 key specialties of the college include: Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Preschool Education, English Education, Architectural Engineering Technology, Automobile Inspection and Maintenance Technology, Accounting Computerization, Printing Technology, Communication Technology .

NVTC has shown its strength in research and has made remarkable achievement over the years. The college has established many research centers and labs: the key municipal laboratory for the prevention and control of livestock and poultry diseases, the municipal research institute of Nanchong Electronics and Information Technology Industries, four college-level research institutes including the Modern Agricultural Development Research Center, the Automotive Auto Parts Development Research Center, the Modern Logistics Development Research Center, and the Modern Vocational Education Development Research Center. And there are twelve School-level research institutes like the Modern Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research Laboratory. Since the establishment of the college in 2003, the college staff have published nearly 3,000 papers, 288 textbooks, 24 academic monographs, 32 patents and 2 software works. They have obtained 289 research projects at the municipal level and above, 119 school-enterprise cooperation research projects, and 37 scientific research awards at the municipal level and above.

NVTC is fully equipped with teaching facilities and high quality teaching staff. The college is on a 1403.4-mu (93.56 acres) campus, with the construction area of 327,700 square meters. The total fixed asset of the college is 376 million RMB. And the college owns 3,183 sets of microcomputers for teaching, 749,300 books in library and electronic reading rooms, etc. There are 645 full-time staff, among whom are 21 professors, 105 associate professors, 203 lecturers, and 267 dual qualified teachers (teacher with double qualified professional certifications). There are 140 part-time teachers, including one foreign teacher.