Hangzhou Polytechnic (hereinafter HZPT) is a publicly-funded higher vocational institute sponsored by Hangzhou Municipal Government, and was developed depending on Hangzhou Adult University of Science and Technology after being approved by People’s Government of Zhejiang Province in December 1999. In December 2006, Hangzhou Municipal Government reached a decision that Hangzhou Radio and Television University and Hangzhou Adult University of Science and Technology would co-establish Hangzhou Polytechnic. In February 2009, HZPT was officially founded. Hangzhou Polytechnic is operated under the mechanism of two names with the same faculty and staff. During the course of its development, there are several schools incorporated into Hangzhou Radio and Television University, including Xianghu Normal School of Zhejiang Province established by the renowned educator, Tao Xingzhi, Hangzhou Urban Construction School and Hangzhou Radio and Television Secondary School. Zhejiang Yanzhou Normal School, founded in 1916 and hailed as the cradle of primary school teachers in mountainous areas of western Zhejiang, and Hangzhou Finance, Taxation and Accounting School were integrated in to Hangzhou Polytechnic. All of these schools provide traceable origins and significant recourses.
Development Goals
Our overarching development goal of “taking the lead by applying a two-step approach” was put forward at the First Congress of Party Representatives of HZPT. The first step is to achieve the development goals set out in the 13th Five-Year Plan after about five years of hard work, and to reach the first-class level of comprehensive strength among similar institutions in China by the 15th anniversary of the founding of HZPT (2024). The second step is, after another ten years’ endeavors, to build HZPT into a first-class higher vocational college nationwide with distinctive characteristics.
Pursuits of Values
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, HZPT comprehensively implements the Party's education policy, takes moral education as its foundation, establishes socialist core values as its guide, combines the characteristics of higher vocational education, inherits and advocates Tao Xingzhi’s “life education theory”, and promotes the spirit of “love for all”. HZPT has developed its own distinctive culture with strengthening both morality and professional competences as its motto, pioneering and forging ahead with relentless exertion, together with adopting a truth-seeking and pragmatic attitude as its ethos, mutually benefiting from teaching as well as learning and enlightening others through the spirit of self-enlightenment as its teaching philosophy, and carrying forward craftsmanship in a most far-reaching way by utilizing both practical and intellectual abilities as its learning principle.
Facts and Figures
HZPT has over 11,000 full-time students and there are 16,000 adult students pursuing continuing education with diploma. There are over 800 teaching staff members, including 522 full-time teachers with 37% holding high-ranking professional titles. HZPT has 8 faculties, as well as School of Marxism, School of Continuing Education, School of General Studies and School of Finance, Taxation and Accounting, thereby providing 38 majors covering 8 categories encompassing intelligent manufacturing, intelligent construction,Internet of Things, automotive engineering, artistic residence, new retailing management, MICE, and preschool education.
Conditions and Facilities
HZPT has several campuses, including an urban campus in Hangzhou, Gaoqiao in Fuyang, and Yanzhou in Jiande, thus covering an area over 900 mu (60 hectares), with the floorage occupying more than 420,000 square meters. It has developed a spatial layout of Along-the-river Development adjacent to two banks and three rivers composed of Xin’an River, Fuchun River and Qiantang River. Gaoqiao, the main campus situated in higher education community of Fuyang District and one of the most beautiful and ecology-friendly campuses in Zhejiang Province, has a total area of 800 mu (53 hectares) with a building area of approximately 340,000 square meters. Holding superior supporting facilities for teaching, scientific research, practical training and recreational activities, with existing equipment approaching 0.3 billion Yuan in value, HZPT has established a high-end, multi-functional, and modernized Network & Information Center and a library housing 800,000 paper books. The 17-floor Innovation & Entrepreneurship Industrial Park, occupying an area of 35,000 square meters, was officially recognized as a provincial-level scientific and technological enterprises incubator, mainly for innovation and entrepreneurship development as well as scientific and technological enterprises incubation. HZPT has an International Cultural Exchange Center covering an area of over 30,000 square meters. The open and public training base Intelligent Manufacturing under the National 13th Five-Year Plan Industry-Education Integration Development Project, situated in Qiantang District, invested over 0.3 billion Yuan, and occupying an area of 27,000 square meters, will be fully operational in 2022, thus remaining committed to building an important platform for Hangzhou to promote the implementation of the New Manufacturing Plan and an influential industry-education integration platform in China.
