Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College

Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College,established in July of 2000, is a public media higher vocational college based on the former Hunan Bank School and Hunan Educational Television in a model of "college combining with TV station". In 2002, the former Changsha County Teacher Training School was merged in. In 2004, the former Hunan Broadcasting and Television School was merged in. Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College is co-established by Education Department of Hunan Province, Hunan Provincal Radio and Television Bureau, and Hunan Broadcasting System and it is in the charge of Education Department of Hunan Province. As one of the first national backbone higher vocational colleges, one of the first project construction units of “Excellent Higher Vocational Colleges”, the Base for International Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture(Hunan) by Hanban, the organizer of Maldives Villa College Chinese Language Center (Confucius Institute), and the program production base of Hunan Broadcasting System, it owns the reputation of the Cradle of Broadcasting and Television in Hunan.

Adhering to the educational orientation of keeping a foothold in Hunan, facing the whole country, serving the cultural industry, and highlighting media characteristics, the college upholds the school motto of Creativity Lights up Your Life and implements the development strategy of prospering the college by introducing TV station, strengthening the college by ingenuity and glorifying the college by services. Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College is dedicated to cultivating creative technical talents with high comprehensive quality and strong communication ability for the construction of Strengthening Hunan by Culture and the development of media industry. Currently, there are 35 specialties in Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College. Putting Media Content Production as its core, supported by Media Technology and Media Management, taking its professional development pattern of Cultural Education and focusing on the construction of three characteristic specialty groups (namely, Press, Publications, Radio, Film and Television; Animation and Art Design; New Media Technology), Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College enrolls students from 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions all over the country and currently has more than 11,000 students.

Implementing two-level management, Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College has 6 secondary schools and 2 education departments: the School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Film and Television Arts, the School of Visual Arts, the School of New Media Technology, the School of Management, the School of International Communication, the Department of Ideological and Political Education, and the Department of Physical Education, with a total faculty member of 667, including 188 teachers with senior professional title, and 373 doctors and masters. Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College is an examination center of the National Qualification Tests for Radio and Television Editors, Journalists, Announcers and Anchors, as well as HSK and IELTS. The main campus is located in the China National Economic and Technical Development Zone in Xingsha, Changsha, neighbouring to the Hunan Radio and Television Center. The College is a new environmental friendly and intelligent campus with the reputation of Civilized Unit in Hunan Province and Landscaped Unit in Hunan Province.

China cannot do without the world and the world needs China. In the overall context of the peaceful rise of China and China’s rapid integration into the international community, the International Communication Department and the International Chinese Language and Culture Communication Base that has been setup in the school cooperate closely to vigorously build the four specialties: the Business English Specialty, the Leisure Services and Management Specialty, the Modern Communication (Chinese Teaching for Foreigners and Culture Communication) Specialty and the Secretary Specialty and cultivate high-quality skill-oriented talents to implement the “bringing in and going global” strategy in terms of the commerce, trade, tourism and culture of Hunan Province.  

Our department has 52 teaching and administrative staff and a foreign teacher. The full-time teachers with sub-senior professional titles or above account for 35% of the total staff and the full-time teachers with medium-grade professional titles account for 61%. The employees with master degrees account for 85%. One employee has a doctor degree and one employee is a doctoral candidate. The double-professionally -titled teachers account for 63%. Seven employees used to go to the United States, Europe, Australia, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, etc. to visit, study or work. Two employees used to teach Chinese language in the United States. Our school is a director unit of the English Research Society of Hunan Higher Vocational Education and actively guides the English teaching development and research of the higher vocational colleges in Hunan Province.

Our department has advanced teaching equipment and excellent facilities. We have four high-end audio-visual classrooms, three autonomously interactive learning rooms, one business training room, one business negotiation training room, one tour guide simulation training room and one Chinese and western culture experience room.

Our department and the International Exchange Division of the college have jointly carried international cooperation and exchange with Hongik University and Youngsan University of South Korea, University of Bridgeport and Sonoma Branch of University of California of the United States, and Coventry University of Britain. Our department offers the students an education level upgrade opportunity through the “3+1” teaching mode, i.e. the mode combining three years of domestic study and one year of abroad study.

We warmly and sincerely invite all the students to actively join the International Communication Department, display their talents on the international commerce and trade, tourism and cultural exchange stage and show their elegant demeanor!