Dongying Vocational Institute | Chinese Universities

Founded in July, 2001, Dongying Vocational Institute (“DVI”) is a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning organized by Dongying Municipal People’s Government upon the approval of Shandong Provincial People’s Government.
I. Superior Environment
(I) Obvious location advantages. Being a hub connecting the Central Plain Economic Zone and the Northeast Economic Zone, as well as the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Economic Region and the Jiaodong Peninsula Economic Zone, Dongying is the central city in the Yellow River Delta Efficient Ecological Economic Zone, a frontier city of the Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone, an important node city in Bohai Rim Region, and a city benefiting from the Coordinated Development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. It has been determined to become an important efficient eco-economic demonstration zone, a leading zone in sustainable development of resource-based cities, and a regional central city during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period (2016-2020).
II. Powerful Strength
(I) Advanced philosophy on school management. Following the principle of moral education-based talent cultivation, DVI has further defined its orientation as a high-quality technical personnel training base, a high-skill and new technology training base, a scientific R&D and technical service center, and a continuing education and cultural communication center in the Yellow River Delta Region with industry-teaching integration as the main thread. DVI has also determined its connotative development path featuring “focus on students, priority to quality, featured brand, openness and inclusion and win-by-culture”, and its development goal of building a featured, international and entrepreneurial famous higher vocational college. In the meantime, DVI has put forward six major tasks of “high-standard planning, high-quality talent education, large-scale training, deep integration, ‘dual-qualified’ teachers and high-level services”, and five major visions of highlighting petroleum and petrochemical characteristics, creating innovative and entrepreneurial brands, cultivating artificial intelligence highlights, forming an open governance pattern, and improving the international influence.
(II) Significantly improved faculty level. DVI has established the “Teacher Development Center” and enterprise practice training base that aim at serving the faculties and facilitating the reform in education to co-train teachers with enterprises. Among all the full-time teachers, 78% have won their master’s degree or above and 88% are “dual-qualified” teachers. Moreover, DVI has formed a resource library that houses 850 part-time teachers, a national teaching team, ten Shandong provincial teaching teams, and a Huang Danian-type teaching team. Notably, thirty-seven teachers of DVI have been awarded the National Model Teacher, National Advanced Individual in Vocational Education, the Most Beautiful Teacher in Shandong, Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions at Shandong Provincial Level, and other honorable titles.
(III) Complete internship and training conditions. DVI has built 167 practical training rooms with the in-campus training area of over 110,000 square meters. There are also the High-skill Talent Public Training Base in Dongying, Modern Manufacturing and Processing Training Center, Petroleum Engineering Technical Training Center, and other practical training centers. The Petrochemical Training Base is granted the “National Demonstrative Training Base”, while DVI is granted the “Demonstrative Base for IOT Talent Education of Shandong Province”.
(IV) Remarkable achievements in discipline construction. With eight national key majors, DVI has built two Shandong provincial demonstrative majors, eight Shandong provincial featured majors, three Shandong provincial brand major groups, and three 3-year junior college + 2-year undergraduate majors. In the meantime, DVI has developed two national quality courses, two national quality resources sharing courses, forty-four Shandong provincial quality courses, and twenty Shandong provincial quality resources sharing courses. DVI has been successfully listed as the first batch of modern apprenticeship system pilot colleges by the Ministry of Education, with its Petrochemical Technology included as the first batch of modern apprenticeship system pilot majors of Shandong Province. In addition, DVI has won numerous national and provincial awards, including one second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award and fifteen Shandong Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards (including one grand prize).
III. Distinctive Features
(I) Petroleum and petrochemical. DVI has led to establish the Petroleum and Petrochemical Equipment and Technology Vocational Education Group, which is the host member of the Chemical Vocational Education Professional Construction Steering Committee of Shandong Province and the national petroleum and chemical industry vocational education and training demonstration training base. The Petrochemical Technology has been identified and approved as the national and provincial modern apprenticeship system pilot. DVI has initiated to develop the teaching guidance schemes for three majors of Petrochemical Technology, Petroleum Engineering Technology and Chemical Equipment Technology of higher vocational college in Shandong Province, with the petrochemical teaching resource library it chairs identified as the national alternative library and the petrochemical specialty group selected as the featured high-level specialty group in China.
(II)Innovation and entrepreneurship brands. DVI has built “three platforms” of Entrepreneurship College, Employment and Entrepreneurship Service Center and Entrepreneurship Incubation Base, established “three systems” of entrepreneurship education courses, entrepreneurship education evaluation and entrepreneurship project output, and organically integrated the innovation and entrepreneurship education with professional education, students’ association activities and the building of “creation” cultural brands. DVI has fostered profound “creation” cultural atmosphere featuring “creativity, innovation, creation, entrepreneurship, excellence and efficiency”, as well as “DVI, a platform to realize dreams and create a better future”. In recent years, over 400 college students have started entrepreneurship, while more than 10 are entrepreneurial models with great influence throughout Shandong Province. DVI’s innovation and entrepreneurship education reform project won the second prize of National Vocational Education Teaching Achievement and the special prize of Shandong Provincial Vocational Education Teaching Achievement. Being awarded the Top 50 Universities with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship by the Ministry of Education, DVI is the project initiation organization of the pilot incubator of “Golden Seed Plan” of cultural Industry, the first batch of Youth Entrepreneurship Incubation Demonstration Bases, the College Students’ Entrepreneurship Incubation Demonstration Bases, and the Maker Space in Shandong Province.
(III) Artificial intelligence. DVI has been identified by the Ministry of Education as the pilot college of “AI+ Smart Learning” Artificial Intelligence College Co-building Program. It has also introduced high-quality resources of Tarena International, Inc. to build the Artificial Intelligence College, and established the Yellow River Delta Institute of Artificial Intelligence Innovation. Moreover, DVI hosted the first Shandong Artificial Intelligence Vocational Education Conference, and won the Outstanding Contribution Award of the New Generation Information Technology Innovation and Application Competition in Shandong Province. DVI also initiated to establish the National Artificial Intelligence Vocational Education Group as the president unit and executive deputy secretary-general unit. The group has been now registered and filed on the management platform of the Vocational Education Group of the Ministry of Education, with relevant work rolled out in full swing.
(IV)Inclusive paths for operation and management. DVI has made all endeavors to improve its international influence by introducing overseas experts, education resources and students, and dispatching its professional teachers, students and graduates abroad for exchange. So far, DVI has introduced fifteen professional textbooks from Germany and other countries, introduced one international vocational qualification certification standard, and developed two professional standards that are line with international standards. Placing the focus on countries along the “Belt and Road”, DVI has proactively promoted the cooperative education: establishing AHK Sino-German (Dongying) Vocational Training Center, co-building the International College of DVI with Kerui Group, establishing “Luban Workshop” in Saudi Arabia, becoming a member of the China Council of Association of Silk Road Countries Universities and Consulting Companies, and holding the remote video conference for international cooperation with the Embassy of Kenya in China, with memorandum of understanding signed.