遵义职业技术学院于2001年8月10日经贵州省人民政府批准的公办学校，2002年4月18日正式挂牌成立。是一所集农、商、理、工、文多学科的全日制综合性普通高等职业院校，是贵州省优质校立项建设单位。
学院办学历史可追溯1956年原遵义农业学校的创办，由原国家重点中专学校遵义农业学校、原国家重点中专学校遵义市财贸学校、遵义农业机械化学校、遵义商业技工学校和遵义市农业机械研究所“四校一所”合并组建。
学院坐落于遵义市红花岗区新蒲街道长征大道中段，占地面积716亩。图书馆藏书70万余册。现有教学院系（部）10个，分别是经济管理系、现代农业系、汽车工程学院、人文旅游系、建筑与艺术设计系、机电与信息工程系、基础教育教学部、马克思主义学院（思想政治教学部）、技师学院、继续教育学院。设32个专业，开办有来自“一带一路”16个国家的留学生班，学院在校生11000余人。遵义职业技术学院红色培训中心是全国高教学会职教分会的全国职教联盟红色培训基地，是落实好习近平总书记“传承红色基因，讲好遵义故事”的平台和窗口。现有教职工535人，“双师素质”占专任教师比例45%。其中博士研究生8人，硕士研究生147人。教授11人，副教授69人。学校现有黄炎培职业教育杰出教师1人、全国五一劳动奖章1人、省级劳模1人、省级职教名师5人，省级优秀教学团队3个、遵义市“15851”第二层次人才4人，贵州省千层次创新型人才2人。
学院以“笃学践行，崇德尚能”为校训，坚持产教融合、校企合作、工学结合、知行合一的办学理念，紧紧围绕乡村振兴战略，“两个一百年”的奋斗目标，坚持红色传承，推动绿色发展。立德树人以德施教，促进学生德智体美劳全面发展。学院深植于红色文化丰富的遵义大地，依托丰富的红色文化资源，形成独具特色的“红色塑魂、蓝色致用、绿色出彩”的“彩虹文化”办学育人体系。建校60多年来，为服务地方和城乡经济发展，培养了一批以刘丛强院士为代表的杰出人才。
学校先后荣获全国献血优秀组织奖、“全省文明校园”、贵州省社会治安综合治理四创工作先进单位、贵州省“五好基层党组织”、贵州省“五·四红旗团委”等荣誉。在全省、全国学生、教师技能大赛中屡创佳绩，全国技能大赛中市场营销专业荣获2017年、2019年第一名，2019年全国职业院校技能大赛高职院校获奖数量排行榜位列第98位。
Zunyi vocational and technical college was approved by Guizhou Provincial People's government as a public school on August 10, 2001 and officially established on April 18, 2002. It is a full-time comprehensive higher vocational college integrating agriculture, business, science, engineering and arts, and a construction unit of high-quality school in Guizhou Province.
In 1956, Zunyi agricultural machinery school and Zunyi Agricultural Machinery Institute were merged to form Zunyi agricultural machinery school.
The college is located in the middle of Changzheng Avenue, Xinpu street, Honghuagang District, Zunyi City, covering an area of 716 mu. The library has a collection of more than 700000 books. At present, there are 10 teaching departments (departments), namely, Department of economic management, Department of modern agriculture, College of automotive engineering, Department of Humanities and tourism, Department of architecture and art design, Department of mechanical and electrical engineering and information engineering, Department of basic education, College of Marxism (ideological and political Education), technician college and College of continuing education. One belt, one road, 32 students, 16 students from all over the country, 11000 students. The red training center of Zunyi Vocational and Technical College is the National Vocational Education Alliance red training base of the National Higher Vocational Education Association. It is the platform and window for implementing general secretary Xi Jinping's "inheritance of red genes and good Zunyi story". At present, there are 535 teaching staff, and "double quality" accounts for 45% of full-time teachers. Among them, there are 8 doctoral students and 147 master students. There are 11 professors and 69 associate professors. At present, the school has 1 outstanding teacher of Huang Yanpei's vocational education, 1 National May 1st Labor Medal, 1 provincial model worker, 5 provincial famous teachers of vocational education, 3 provincial excellent teaching teams, 4 second level talents of "15851" in Zunyi City, and 2 thousand level innovative talents in Guizhou Province.
With the motto of "learning and practicing, advocating morality and ability", the college adheres to the school running philosophy of integration of industry and education, school enterprise cooperation, work study combination, and unity of knowledge and practice, closely centers on the Rural Revitalization Strategy and the "two centenary" goal, adheres to the red inheritance, and promotes green development. Moral education, moral education, promote the all-round development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor. The college is deeply rooted in Zunyi, which is rich in red culture. Relying on the rich red cultural resources, it has formed a unique "Rainbow culture" education system with "red shaping the soul, blue application and green brilliance". Over the past 60 years, in order to serve the local and urban and rural economic development, the university has cultivated a number of outstanding talents represented by academician Liu congqiang.
The school has successively won the national outstanding organization award for blood donation, "civilized campus of the whole province", advanced unit of four innovations in comprehensive management of social security in Guizhou Province, "five good grassroots party organization" in Guizhou Province, and "May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee" in Guizhou Province. In the provincial and national skills competitions for students and teachers, the marketing major won the first place in 2017 and 2019 in the national skills competition, and the number of Higher Vocational Colleges in the 2019 National Skills Competition ranked 98th.
