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Hangzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology is an ordinary higher vocational college sponsored by Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The school insists on basing itself on Hangzhou, facing Zhejiang, radiating the Yangtze River Delta, closely combining the development needs of high-tech industries and modern service industries, focusing on civil engineering, manufacturing and cultural education, and striving to build itself into a strong vocational school in the province that people are satisfied with.

The school has seven secondary vocational colleges, including Urban Construction College, Information Engineering College, Electromechanical Engineering College, Art Design College, Business School, Tourism College and Education College. At present, there are 3/kloc-0 majors in seven categories, such as urban construction, electronic information, electromechanical, art design, media and economic management, and there are nearly 9000 full-time students in higher vocational colleges.

The school has three campuses in Hangzhou, Gao Qiao and Yanzhou, with a total area of about 850 mu and a total construction area of about 370,000 square meters.

The school has a first-class multifunctional modern university library and information network center with a collection of nearly 700,000 books. The school closely combines the needs of regional economic and social development in Hangzhou, constantly optimizes the professional layout, promotes the connotation construction, and cultivates high-quality applied technical talents.