Yongzhou Vocational and Technical College was approved by the Hunan Provincial People's Government and put on record by the Ministry of Education in July 2000. It was formed by the merger and upgrading of Lingling Health School and Lingling Agricultural School. In order to integrate Yongzhou's educational resources, in June 2003, with the approval of Hunan Provincial People's Government, Lingling Commercial School, Lingling Normal School and Lingling Technical School merged.
The school has set up 35 higher vocational majors, enrolling students from 27 provinces and cities across the country. National teaching team 1 team, 3 provincial teaching teams, 2 national teaching reform pilot majors and 6 national key construction majors.
There are 8 provincial-level top-quality specialties and teaching reform pilot specialties, 2 provincial-level demonstration specialties, 2 provincial-level characteristic specialties, 1 provincial-level demonstration specialty group and 3 provincial-level first-class characteristic specialty groups; There are 3 national vocational education training bases, 2 provincial production practice training bases and 2 provincial teacher training and certification bases. There are three productive practice training bases in the school: affiliated hospital, ecological farm and unblocked driving school.
The College has successively won the National Advanced Vocational Education Unit, the National Excellent College for Talent Training Evaluation in Higher Vocational Colleges, the National First Prize for Teaching Achievements, Hunan Civilized University, Hunan Advanced Vocational Education Unit, Hunan Advanced College Employment Unit, Hunan Excellent College Employment "Top-ranking" Project Unit, Hunan Advanced College Party Building Unit and Hunan Excellent College Students' Ideological and Political Work Unit.
Advanced unit of psychological health education for college students in Hunan Province, the first excellent college of vocational education of Huang Yanpei in Hunan Province, the advanced unit of building a clean and honest government in Hunan Province, the advanced collective of national college student status and education management, the advanced collective of greening work in Hunan Province, and the advanced collective of logistics work in colleges and universities in Hunan Province.