Hunan Railway Professional Technology College

Hunan Railway Professional Technology College (HNRPC) is situated in Zhuzhou, a city of Electrical Locomotives. Zhuzhou is well connected by rail, and is an important rail transportation junction in China. As the second largest city in Hunan Province, Zhuzhou has a population of 4.04 million (2018 census).

HNRPC was founded in 1951. It is a top high vocational college under direct administration of Hunan Education Department of Hunan Provincial Government, one of the first Batch of 28 National Demonstrative Colleges elected from 1359 colleges. There are 5 schools in HNRPC, namely School of Locomotive and Vehicle, School of Artificial Intelligence (AI), School of Manufacturing, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Railway Operation Management.

HNRPC is strong at disciplines related to electrical engineering, manufacturing, and information technology. A lot of high-quality teaching resources are open to both teachers and students, such as bank of teaching resources (national level), online curriculum resources, etc.

HNRPC has 573 faculty members, including an expert awarded special allowance by the State Council, a teacher honored as one of the “National ten-thousand outstanding teachers”, 2 teachers ranked as national distinguished teachers. There are over 10,600 full-time students in the college. The annual admission of vocational trainees is over 7,000.

The university has established cooperative relationships with 30 educational institutions and multinational enterprises in 13 countries (regions), including Russia, Germany, Thailand and Malaysia. It has built 1 railway workshop, 1 Luban workshop, 1 overseas branch campus, 1 "Belt and Road" industrial college, 8 international professional standards developed in cooperation, 20 international courses developed in cooperation, 10 international staff training standards, 10 professional teaching standards and 20 practical training course standards. In cooperation with St. Petersburg State University of Transportation, Russia, the company has set up 3 Chinese-foreign co-operative education programmes, including railway locomotive, with a school scale of 448 students and a total of 98 international students from 5 countries, including Thailand and Bangladesh. It has trained more than 3,000 talents in the rail transport industry for the "Monnet Railway" and other foreign-aid projects and for Thailand, Nigeria and other "Belt and Road" countries.