Guangdong Food and Drug Vocational College is public, specialized and specialized (higher vocational).

Guangdong Food and Drug Vocational College is a public full-time general higher vocational college approved by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and put on record by the Ministry of Education. It is a national high-quality college vocational college, a high-level vocational college with China characteristics and a professional construction plan project construction unit, the first batch of national demonstration vocational education group training units, the second batch of modern apprenticeship pilot units of the Ministry of Education, a demonstration vocational college in Guangdong Province and a first-class vocational college in Guangdong Province. ?

1965, the school's predecessor, Guangdong Chinese Herbal Medicine School, was established; 1986, renamed Guangdong medical college; In 2003, with the approval of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and the record of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Vocational and Technical College of Chemical Medicine was established. In 2007, it was renamed Guangdong Food and Drug Vocational College.

In March 2023, the school official website showed that the total campus area was 1.233 mu, including 455 mu in Longdong Campus and 778 mu in Zhong Luotan Campus. The building area of the school building is 433,000 square meters, the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 82.72 million yuan, and the experimental training area is 89,322 square meters. Full-time students in higher vocational colleges 15024, of which science and engineering students account for 62.2%.

There are 628 full-time teachers, 45 full-time professors, associate professors 17 1 person, doctors and postdocs 109 person. There are 15 teaching units and 46 higher vocational majors.