Private nanhua college of industry and commerce is a full-time general college with liberal arts as the main course and engineering as the part, which was approved by Guangdong Province in 1993 and put on record by the former State Education Commission. It is the first school with general college education found—— Trade Union, a new state-owned private mechanism. The administrative department of the college is the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions, and the business department is the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education. The college and the cadre school are two brands and a team, and the dean responsibility system is implemented under the leadership of the party Committee.
In the long-term educational practice, the college has formed the concept of &”;liberal arts education&”; of &”;seeking truth and being pragmatic&”;, &”;being diligent and eager to learn&”;, &”;being healthy and harmonious&”; and &”;being elegant and self-respecting&”;. The college insists on educating people as the starting point and the end result, arouses the tension of educating people with cultural attraction, takes the construction of spiritual home and the cultivation of humanistic quality as the core, takes the construction of environmental culture as the breakthrough, focuses on the cultivation of humanistic spirit and scientific spirit, and aims at improving the overall quality of college students to create a campus cultural atmosphere with liberal arts characteristics.
Since its establishment, the College has trained 9691 applied talents of advanced technology. Most of them have become the backbone of various industries in Guangdong Province, especially in the Pearl River Delta region, and have made important contributions to economic construction and social development in various places.
The college is mainly in Guangdong province, enrolling students in some parts of the country, focusing on full-time higher vocational education of economic and trade majors, taking into account continuing education and vocational training, forming a multi-form and multi-level school-running model. According to the needs of economic construction and social development in Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta region, the College trains middle and senior technical application-oriented talents who meet the needs of the socialist market economy, have strong employment competitiveness, meet the needs of the front line of production, construction, management and service, have a certain theoretical foundation and strong practical application ability, and are honest and innovative, pragmatic, elegant and self-respecting, rigorous and harmonious. By the first half of 2019, there were 7064 full-time students. At present, there are 9 teaching departments, including international economy and trade, finance, business administration, environmental art design, foreign languages, computers, tourism management, law and medical technology, and 22 majors, including customs declaration and international freight transportation, covering nine categories, including finance, electronic information, tourism, public utilities, transportation, civil engineering, culture and education, law and medical health. In 2019, the overall employment rate reached 98.54%, ranking among the top universities in Guangdong Province.
The college has three campuses, namely Tianhe, Huangpu and Qingyuan (under construction), with a total area of 753.28 mu, with a total construction area of 127,638.23 square meters, of which Qingyuan campus covers an area of 460.59 mu, with a planned first-phase construction area of 110,000 square meters and a library construction area of 21,000 square meters. It is expected to be completed and put into use in September next year. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment in the college is 22.451 million yuan. There are 44 laboratories and training rooms, and 50 practice bases outside the school. The library has a collection of 574,600 books. Qingyuan Campus is the first in 2019.A group of freshmen live in Dongcheng Street, Qingcheng District, Qingyuan City, which is adjacent to qingyuan polytechnic and opposite to the local new campus. This year, Qingyuan New Campus will be opened to lay the foundation for upgrading to an undergraduate college.
The total number of teachers in the college is 406, and the ratio of students to teachers is 17.8: 1, including 345 full-time teachers, 125 teachers with postgraduate education or master&;s degree or above, 88 teachers with senior titles, 95 teachers with intermediate titles, 125 teachers with &”;double qualifications&”;, 5 teachers with &”;double shoulders&”; and 56 part-time teachers.
In the long-term educational practice, the college has formed the concept of &”;liberal arts education&”; of &”;seeking truth and being pragmatic&”;, &”;being diligent and eager to learn&”;, &”;being healthy and harmonious&”; and &”;being elegant and self-respecting&”;. The college insists on educating people as the starting point and the end result, arouses the tension of educating people with cultural attraction, takes the construction of spiritual home and the cultivation of humanistic quality as the core, takes the construction of environmental culture as the breakthrough, focuses on the cultivation of humanistic spirit and scientific spirit, and aims at improving the overall quality of college students to create a campus cultural atmosphere with liberal arts characteristics.
Through various teaching capital construction and reform, the college has continuously improved the quality and efficiency of running a school and the quality of personnel training. After more than ten years of development, it has accumulated rich experience in running a school and produced a good social reputation.
Since its establishment, the college has been concerned and guided by leaders at all levels. Comrade Xie Fei, former secretary of members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, wrote the name of the college; In 2004, Zhang Qiujian, secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, inspected the College and fully affirmed its school-running ideas and development goals. Since 1994, the college has been rated as a civilized unit of the provincial working Committee for many years; In 1997, it was awarded the title of National Advanced Unit of Private Colleges and Universities and Advanced Unit of Popularization of Law of All-China Federation of Trade Unions. In 2001, the Party Committee of the College was awarded the title of &”;Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization&”; by directly under the authority Provincial General Manager, and in 2019, the Party Committee of the College was awarded the honorary title of &”;Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization&”; by the Working Committee of directly under the authority, Guangdong Province.
The establishment and development of the college has always been in line with the requirements of local social and economic development. However, due to historical reasons, although it is &”;state-owned&”;, the college has no financial allocation since its establishment, and it relies entirely on tuition fees. The conditions for running a school are very difficult. Over the past ten years, under the condition of unequal opportunities, the college has achieved the same results as similar public colleges. Since its establishment, it has trained 9691 high-tech applied professionals for the country and society. The main reason is that the correct understanding of the dual pressure of survival and development has turned into an inexhaustible motive force to explore new modes of talent training, thus successfully embarking on a road of characteristic innovation: based on the first-line positioning and strengthening liberal arts education.