Hebei Software Institute(HBSI) is under the direct auspices of Hebei Provincial Government. It is the first institutionalized vocational school specialized in IT techonlogy and the largest high-caliber IT talent training center in Hebei Province. In the meantime, the school is rated as an Excellent College-level Vocational School Construction Unit and one of the 35 Demonstration School in Hebei Province. In August 2021, HBSI was successfully selected into the vocational education demonstration virtual simulation training base cultivation project of the Ministry of Education.

河北软件职业技术学院隶属于河北省教育厅，是河北省首家独立建制的以信息技术教育为主的高等职业院校，是河北最大的培养信息技术高技能人才的高职院校，是“国家优质专科高等职业院校建设单位”、“国家35所示范性软件职业技术学院建设单位”、“河北省重点建设示范性高等职业院校”、“河北省大学生创业教育示范学校”。2021年8月，学院成功入选教育部职业教育示范性虚拟仿真实训基地培育项目。

Situated in Baoding, well-known historic and cultural city in Hebei Province, HBSI covers an area over 300mu(200,000㎡) and owns a building area of 210,000㎡ in total. It currently has 12,000 full-time students, among whom 7,338 students are studying IT courses, making the school the largest one in all the higher vocational institutes in Hebei Province. Mr.Ni Guangnan, an eminent computer expert and Academician from Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the Honorary President of the school.

学院坐落于历史文化名城河北省保定市，校园占地面积300余亩，校舍建筑面积21万余平方米。现有在校生12000余名，其中信息技术类专业在校生7338人，规模位居全省高职院校首位。全国著名计算机专家、中国工程院院士倪光南先生为学院名誉院长。

In the past 50 years, HBSI is committed to the motto of “learning with determination, harboring lifelong ambition, and focusing on action”, observes the operating principle that “there is no distance between teaching contents in the school and actual needs in the society, and so is the relationship between quality of students and requirements of jobs”, sticks to the operational positioning of “centering on higher vocational education and serving IT industry”, and carries forward the spirit of “people-centered development, democracy and harmony, start-up and innovation, and ceaseless self-improvement”. Taking advantage of the coordinated development among Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as well as the building of Xiong’an New Area, the school accelerates its layout of new specialties and the transformation and upgrading of traditional specialties with a focus on high-end and hi-tech industries. With ICT as the core, HBSI focus on building eight characteristic professional groups of Software Big Data, Internet of Things Network Communication, Cloud Computing, Animation Production, Intelligent Manufacturing, Construction Engineering, E-commerce and Accounting&Finance, so as to cultivate high-quality technical talents with international vision for the front line of production, construction, management and service.

在50年的办学实践中，学院秉承“笃学、恒志、尚行”的校训，遵循“学院与社会零距离，学生与岗位零距离”的办学理念，坚持“立足高职、服务IT”的办学定位，弘扬“以人为本、民主和谐、创业创新、自强不息”的学院精神，围绕实施京津冀协同发展、“雄安新区”千年大计，瞄准高端高新产业，加快新专业的布局和传统专业的升级改造，以ICT为核心，重点打造软件大数据、物联网网络通信、云计算、动漫制作、智能制造、建筑工程、电子商务和会计金融八大特色专业群，为生产、建设、管理、服务一线培养具备国际视野的高素质技术技能人才。

HBSI unswervingly follows the path of “creating HBSI characteristics through the integration of production with teaching, and serving the community through the improvement of teaching quality”, persistently deepens the educational and teaching reforms, tremendously promotes the technical innovation and service abilities, substantially expands international communication and cooperation, and coordination, the school will promote the innovation development of its talents cultivation undertakings by giving full play to the spirit of craftsmanship, and forge HBSI into a high-quality and unique modern vocational college and an import pool of technological and skill resources in the region, with its overall levels ranking among the top in Hebei Province and its star courses achieving national excellence and highly recognized across the world.

学院依照“融合产教，锤炼特色；锻造质量，服务发展”的发展思路，持续深化教育教学改革，大幅提升技术创新服务能力，实质性扩大国际交流合作，培养杰出技术技能人才；以信息化、国际化、协同化为突破点，用工匠精神推进育匠事业创新发展，将学院建成“优质”、“特色”的现代化高职院校，使学院成为区域技术技能积累的重要资源聚集地，整体水平达到省内领先，品牌专业达到国内一流水平，获得国家认可。