Suqian Economic and Trade Higher Vocational and Technical School, referred to as Suqian Economic and Trade College, is a comprehensive full-time public university. The school is located in the new urban area in the south of Shuyang County, Jiangsu Province. Its predecessor was Jiangsu Shuyang Normal School, which was founded in 1920. In August 2005, it was upgraded to a higher vocational and technical college with the approval of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, and became the first higher vocational school in Suqian, a branch of Jiangsu United Vocational and Technical College. The school has been awarded the Spark School for farmers' scientific and technological training under the National Spark Plan, the National Training Base for Talents in Shortage of Software Testing, the National Cheerleading Demonstration Window School, the Provincial NC and Electronic Training Base, the Best Organization School for Provincial Innovation Competition, the first batch of high-level demonstration vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province, the Jiangsu NC Training Base for Talents in Shortage, and the Jiangsu Electronic Professional Training Base. "Training Base of Jiangsu Grain Industry Vocational Skills Office", 1 As of March 20 12, the school covers an area of 1000 mu, with a building area of 200,000 square meters, with students 10000 and more than 300 teaching and administrative staff.