Jiangsu Vocational Institute of Architectural Technology (JSVIAT)，as a provincial government public full-time school, is one of State-level Model Higher Vocational Institute. JSVIAT is located at Xuzhou, the central city in the Huaihai economic zone and one of the three metropolitan areas in Jiangsu Province.
Located at Quanshan District in Xuzhou, the college covers an area of 1200 mu (80 hectares) with a gross floor area of 400,000 square meters. JSVIAT has a comprehensive range of fields covering 14 secondary schools, namely, Architectural Construction, Architectural Decoration, Architectural Intelligence, Architectural Management, Transportation Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing, Information and Electronics Engineering, Art and Design, Economic Management, Marxism, General Courses, International Education, Continuing Education, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The school gathers almost 13,000 full-time students, and more than 9,800 registered students of continuing education. Based on the elegant campus environment, superior teaching facilities, and abundant cultural activities, so far, it has been awarded honorary titles of“Jiangsu civilized organization”, “Charming campus of National Vocational Colleges”,“Harmonious campus in Jiangsu Province”,“Safety and peaceful campus in Jiangsu Province”,“Garden-Style College in Jiangsu Province”,“The first batch of green universities in Xuzhou”,“Advanced organization of Ideological and political education in Jiangsu Province”. Noticeably, the college owns the core culture of military, coal and architecture, along with the educational cultural systems of corporation and schoolmate.
To promote the education internationalization and expand the channels for international communication and cooperation, JSVIAT has built cooperation relationship with 40 overseas higher institutions, such as South Lanarkshire College in the UK, Institute of Technology Carlow in Ireland, Queensland University in Australia, University of Management and Economics in Cambodia, Technical College of Vientiane Province in Laos. Equipped with 4 Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education Projects, JSVIAT also adopts “3+0”and “2+1” programs with top overseas universities, which has admitted more than 700 international students from 19 countries. In addition, JSVIAT is also provincial level unit of“Talents for Special Purpose”in Jiangsu ,the first batch of “China-ASEAN vocational colleges”and Jiangsu Provincial Government Scholarship. On one hand, the college encourages students to study abroad and there are about 218 students who have the experiences of studying abroad; on the other hand, the college encourages teachers to do the teaching jobs or do some cooperative study abroad and there are 530 teachers who have the experiences of overseas training in more than 20 countries and areas. Besides, JSVIAT has established 5 branch campuses in Laos and Cambodia, where a“China-Cambodia Culture and Language Research Center”is located. Chinese teachers are responsibly stationed for a long time to provide language and skill training for foreign teachers and students.
To provide better service for “the Belt and Road”overseas Chinese enterprises, we constantly promote the School-Enterprise Cooperation Programs. The number of graduates is 98 in 2020, and there are more than 9 students choose to upgrade from JSVIAT to other universities in China, and there are 11 students choose to continue studying abroad. Our cooperative overseas enterprises speak highly of the international students graduated from JSVIAT, there are more than 60 graduates enter the Top-500 China-invested enterprises to work, such as Conch Cement Co., Ltd in Vientiane and Luang Prabang, Huaxin Cement Co., Ltd in Cambodia, Bank of China Phnom penh Branch in Cambodia, Power Construction Corporation of China and all kinds of big logistics companies and so on.
