Yanzhou Mining Area Workers College is an adult institution of higher learning independently established by the State Education Commission with the approval of Shandong Provincial People's Government 1986. Shandong Provincial Department of Education is responsible for business management, belonging to Yankuang Group, a leading enterprise in the coal industry. Higher vocational education began at 1999. In 2003, Shandong Provincial Department of Education agreed to establish Shandong Industry and Trade Vocational College. After nearly 20 years of development and construction, the school has become a multi-specification, multi-level comprehensive adult college with higher vocational education as the leading factor, adult academic education and all kinds of training at all levels.