The Brief Introduction of College
Hunan Technical College of Railway High-speed, formerly known as Hengyang Railway Engineering School, was founded by the Ministry of Railways in 1951. In 2004, it was placed under the management of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government. In 2005, it was upgraded to Hunan Technical College of Communication & Engineering. In 2011, it was renamed Hunan Technical College of Railway High-speed. In 2014, it was totally moved to Linghu High-speed Railway New Town. The college is a "Chuyi" High Level Vocational college in Hunan Province, a provincial excellent vocational college, a provincial Model of Civilized Campus, and a provincial experimental college of deepening the reform of education evaluation in new era. It has a national vocational education group, a national Public Innovation Space, National Exemplary Base of Production-education-research Cooperation Innovation, National Innovation Center, National Exemplary Base of Employment and Enterprise Innovation Practice, National Specialized-delicate-new Industry College, and other platforms for innovation of specialty and technical services. During the period of 74 years since the school was established, we have nurtured nearly 100,000 "Talents in Railway" for China Railway, and the college is known as the “Whampoa Military Academy” for China Railway and the cradle of station agents.
The college covers an area of more than 850 Chinese acres, with a gross building area of nearly 360,000 square meters, with a total investment of over 1.5 billion yuan in construction. The college has 7 departments, 34 vocational majors and 2 undergraduate major. It has 3 provincial high-level professional groups, 3 provincial first-class professional groups, and 1 high-level professional group for the "Three Heights and Four New Mission "strategy . It has formed a professional pattern with distinctive characteristics that is compatible with the high-speed railway, rail transit industry and regional economic development.
There are over 700 full-time employees in our college currently, around one thousand staff. Among them, more than 390 teachers are with master’s degree or above, and over 222 teachers are with senior professional titles. The proportion of "dual-qualified" teachers reaches 80.6%. Two teachers have been awarded the National "May 1st" Labor Medal and the "National Prominent Teacher" respectively. There are two national “dual-qualified” instructors of technology and industry and over 26 provincial outstanding teachers. Three teachers have won the “locomotive medal” in Ministry of Railways. Nine teachers are members of the National Industry Guidance Committee. In addition, we have 6 provincial professional teaching teams and 28 middle-aged backbone teachers in Hunan Province. The college has also hired 5 leading talents, 11 industrial tutors and 9 technical experts in enterprise as advisors, and has established more than 20 technical master’s studios.
The college recruits students from 28 provinces and cities across the country. At present, there are more than 15,000 full-time students. In the recent two years, our students have won more than 300 awards in vocational skills competitions at all levels, among which are over 20 National First Prize. The high quality graduates are mainly employed by China Railway Group, Metro Corporation, China Railway Construction, China Railway Engineering Corporation and so on. In the past three years, the employment rate of graduates has reached more than 96%. The college has been awarded the advanced unit of recruitment work in Hunan Province for 6 consecutive years, the advanced unit of employment work in Hunan Province for 5 consecutive years.Three consecutive times awarded as an excellent unit in the "Top Project" of employment and entrepreneurship in Hunan Province, with social service contributions consistently ranking among the top 20 vocational colleges in the province.
The college adheres to the road of integration of industry and education and school-enterprise cooperation. There are 3 industrial colleges cooperated with school and enterprise. There are 1 engineering research center in Hunan Province, 5 comprehensive training bases, more than 150 training rooms and more than 300 training bases outside campus. It is Hunan International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Base, Provincial Science and Technology Popularization Base, Provincial Social Science Popularization Base, Provincial “Chuyi” Cultural Inheritance Base, Provincial “Chuyi” integration of industry and education training base. The Southern high-speed railway talent cultivation and technical cooperation alliance led by our college has been successfully shortlisted for National Demonstration Vocational Education Group and “Chuyi” Demonstration Vocational Education Group in Human Province.
In recent years, the college has actively connected with countries along the “Belt and Road” and helped China’s high-speed rail “go global” strategy. The college has established “Tianyou Railway College”in Wapipathum Technical College. The China-Thailand Cooperation Project of Vocational Education on High-speed Railways has been successfully selected as one of the first 20 characteristic projects of the “China-ASEAN Higher Vocational Colleges Special Cooperation Project”. In order to improve the cultivation of localizing railway construction talents, Tianyou Railway College of four-year undergraduate education was founded by the college, multinational corporation SMB Winning Consortium and Conakry University of Guinea. The China-Guinea Railway International Talent Order Training Project has been selected as one of the first batch of "Future Africa-China Africa Vocational Education Cooperation Characteristic Projects" by the Ministry of Education, becoming the shiniest card of China-Africa cooperation in Hunan Province. The international communication case of the school is on the list of Annual Report on the Quality of Vocational Education in China.In 2024, 59 high-quality talent training courses will be held for craftsmen and dual qualified teachers from undergraduate colleges, with a total of 10611 trainees and 66908 trainees per day, generating a revenue of 11.412 million yuan.Our college has entered the top 50 of the integration of production and education excellence ranking list in 2023 National Annual Report on the Quality of Vocational Education.
Nowadays, on the purpose of promoting the renovation , seeking development, constantly improving school-running level and talents training quality, the college is actively exploiting the advantages of the supports from profound industry background, the local government and brotherly academies to the full. Furthermore, in order to better serve the country strategies, high-speed and railway transportation industry, promote local economic social development, offer support of high-quality technical talents, the college is aiming at boosting the work of building “double high” vocational college and “national civilized campus”, and forging an undergraduate level vocational college of “industry-leading, distinctive characteristics, domestic first-class, world renowned”.
(The data above is as of December 20th in 2024.)