Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management

Currently the college attracts around 15000 students, including exchange students and international students from Korea and Taiwan province.  The college has established an extensive cooperative relationship with the educational institutions and enterprises in Switzerland, USA, France, Germany, Singapore, Korea and Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan province. The high level international communication pattern, which exports local high-quality educational resources and introduces foreign high-quality educational resources, has been built.

Qingdao ( also spelled Tsingtao) is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China. It is the largest city in its province. As of 2014 Qingdao had a population of 9,046,200 with an urban population of 6,188,100. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest.

Qingdao is a major seaport, naval base, and industrial centre. The world's longest sea bridge, the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, links the main urban area of Qingdao with Huangdao district, straddling the Jiaozhou Bay sea areas. It is also the site of the Tsingtao Brewery, the second largest brewery in China.

In 2017, Qingdao ranks 38th in the Global Financial Centres Index published by the Z/Yen Group and Qatar Financial Centre Authority, the other Chinese cities on the list being Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing and Dalian. In 2007, Qingdao was named as among China's top ten cities by the Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at the 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum. In 2009, Qingdao was named China's most livable city by the Chinese Institute of City Competitiveness.

Qingdao attracts many tourists due to its seaside setting and temperate weather. Parks, beaches, sculptures and unique German and modern architecture line the shore. The central tourist information, the Qingdao Information Centre for International Visitors, is located on Middle Hong Kong Road.

The college is located in the world famous Mountain Lao scenery area of Qingdao and occupies an area of 660 hectares with a total classroom and office space of 240,000 square meters. It has multimedia classroom, computer room, language lab, campus network, campus radio and television and other modern teaching facilities and advanced equipment. The college has a modernized library, which has millions of collection literature.

The college adheres to the combination of the individual growth of "double-qualified" teachers and the construction of "double-qualified" teaching team, improves teachers' education and teaching ability and professional practice ability, and basically builds up a high-quality "double-qualified" teacher team with noble ethics, exquisite skills, professional combination and full of vitality. Built a national vocational education teachers teaching innovation team, the country's first practice rover, qilu skills master workstation, the existing four vocational education teaching steering committee of experts, the Ministry of Education teaching steering committee of experts at the provincial level nine, 3 national technical experts, shandong teaching masters four people, five provincial teaching team, provincial youth skills teacher four people, There are 2 studios of provincial famous vocational education teachers, 4 platforms for inheritance and innovation of provincial vocational education skills, 6 famous teaching teachers in Qingdao universities, 1 Advanced Worker in Shandong Province, 2 Model workers in Qingdao and 1 Accounting Leading Talent in Qingdao. It was awarded two typical cases of "double-qualified" teacher team construction in the first batch of national vocational colleges, and the experience of "professional in the forefront, influential in the industry and internationally exchangable" was reported on the official website of the Ministry of Education.

College vigorously pushing forward the construction of the curriculum, the practice teaching condition has 1 state-level education demonstration course door, national online open course 2 doors, and excellent courses at or above the provincial level, provincial excellent resource sharing class seven, teaching resource pool at the provincial level 2, provincial vocational education course education demonstration 4 doors, Qingdao's first modern apprenticeship characteristic course 4 door; It has one national teaching achievement award, 13 provincial teaching achievement awards and 33 provincial teaching reform projects. Five national planning textbooks for vocational education during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and one second prize of the first National Textbook Construction Award; One training base supported by central finance and one provincial key experiment and training room; It has 72 production training rooms covering all majors.

The college has deepened the integration of industry and education and school-enterprise cooperation to build a community with a shared future for school-enterprise cooperation and improve the quality of talent training. Led the establishment of Shandong Modern Hotel Industry vocational Education Group. The university and enterprises have jointly built 8 industrial colleges, including Shandong College of Culture and Tourism Industry, SF Express College of Operation And Management, Shunhe College of Catering Industry, and jointly built the "Qingdao Tourism Big Data Center" with Qingdao Bureau of Culture and Tourism. The university has led the establishment of Qingdao Tourism think tank to contribute wisdom to regional industrial development. The government, the government, the enterprise and the university jointly set up "Shandong Research and Travel Research Institute" to promote the positive interaction of talent training, professional construction and social service.

The school's capacity in scientific research and social services has been significantly enhanced. It has led the establishment of the "Three Education" Reform Alliance of Vocational colleges in Shandong Province, and has organized the training programs for professional backbone teachers in national vocational schools and provincial backbone teachers. The "Heisman" Maker Island space of the Ministry of Science and Technology has been built. 179 national, provincial and municipal scientific research projects, such as Shandong Social Science Fund project, Shandong Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project, and National Tourism Administration special project; Signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Licang District People's Government to boost regional economic and social development; Independent development of shandong Province Social Tour Guide Management System standard, Shandong Cuisine Standardization Process and other industry standards and Qingdao smart tourism enterprise construction standard documents.

The college adheres to the principle of open education and comprehensively promotes international education. Institute held in Macao hotel management professional college chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools project 1, overseas has 3, school of Chinese cuisine is the first "china-us joint high-quality skilled and applied talents training millions exchange program" project colleges and universities in shandong province, the first batch of students scholarship approved unit, currently enrolled Korea, Cambodia and other countries along the "area" degree students. It has established cooperative relations with more than 20 universities and 16 educational institutions in 10 countries and regions, such as Canado College in Canada, TAFE College in South Australia, Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism in Taiwan, and carried out extensive teacher exchange, student exchange, overseas internship, introduction of foreign teachers, introduction of high-quality educational resources and other work. In 2017 and 2019, it was named one of the "Top 50 Of International Influence" of National higher vocational colleges, and in 2018 and 2019, it was named one of the "Top 50 of Asia-pacific Influence of Vocational Education", and was awarded the Excellence Award of The World Association of Vocational Colleges and Technical Universities.

campus culture construction of the college has distinct characteristics, adhering to the overall idea of "culture leading, brand leading" as the campus culture construction, taking the construction of characteristic campus culture as the core, sticking to the emphasis on cultural education, and promoting the overall development of the college as the goal. After years of cultural accumulation, The school has condensed the core campus culture concept of "admiration for virtue, Fashion and truth" and "smile culture", determined the school motto of "diligence, truth, spirit and elegance" and the school spirit of "love, strength and Responsibility", created and spread "smile culture" and formed a distinctive campus cultural ecology. The college was selected as the Excellent case of Shandong Higher Vocational College Cultural Construction and the Base of Shandong Excellent Traditional Chinese culture inheritance.

Inheriting the blood of vocational education for more than 70 years, bathing in the mighty spring breeze of the new era. At present, the college is the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in jinping new era as a guide, comprehensively implement the party's 19th and the 19th session of 2, 3, 4, fifth plenary session of the spirit, to carry out the important instructions of the xi jinping, general secretary of vocational education and the national vocational education conference spirit, to high-quality development as the theme, to connotation construction as the main line, Continuously enhance the adaptability of vocational education, to build a domestic first-class, internationally famous hotel industry comprehensive vocational education brand forge ahead, to build China's hotel industry professional talent cradle.