Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University is a provincial full-time ordinary university with undergraduate education as the main part and the right to award master's degrees. Formerly known as Guangdong University for Nationalities, it was founded in 1957 and renamed Guangdong Vocational and Technical Teachers College in 1998, and renamed Guangdong Technical Teachers College in 2002. In 2002 and 2005, the former Guangdong Mechanical School, the former Guangdong Economic Management Cadre College and the Guangdong Finance and Trade Management Cadre College were merged into the college one after another. In 2006, it was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as a master's degree awarding unit. Tianhe College of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University is an independent full-time private undergraduate secondary college sponsored by our school. The school began to recruit undergraduate students from 1977, and began to recruit graduate students in 2006. In 2000, it began to recruit international students and conducted extensive exchanges and cooperation with relevant universities in the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and other countries and regions.

The school has 13754 full-time ordinary students. Faculty 1338, including 865 full-time teachers and researchers, professors and other senior titles 1 12, 250 associate professors and 56 doctors and masters1person. Dozens of teachers have won the titles of "National Model Teachers" and "National Excellent Teachers". In the past three years, the college has undertaken 259 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, published academic monographs and textbooks 189, and published 2723 scientific research papers. Won national, provincial, ministerial and municipal awards 100.

At present, the school has 65 secondary colleges, including Electronic Information College, Management College, Computer College, Educational Technology and Communication College, Education College, Accounting College, Fine Arts College, Nationalities College, Literature College, Foreign Languages College, Economics and Trade College, Electromechanical College, Automation College, Politics and Law College, as well as three teaching departments, including Social Science Department, College English Department and Sports Department, and provincial demonstration software colleges. It enrolls students in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Shaanxi and Xinjiang. At present, the school has four master's degree awarding points.

The orientation of running a school is: facing vocational education, serving vocational education and leading vocational education. The main task of the school is to train teachers for all kinds of secondary vocational and higher vocational colleges in the province. It has been selected by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the Provincial Department of Education as "National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base", "National Vocational Education Teacher Training Key Construction Base", "National Skilled Talents Training College", "Guangdong High Skilled Talents Training Base", "Guangdong Secondary Vocational School Principal Training Center" and "Guangdong Primary and Secondary School Teachers' Continuing Education Base".

The school has Guangdong Industrial Training Center, provincial key laboratory of virtual training of electrical engineering, provincial research-oriented key laboratory of "integration of optics, mechanics and electronics" and digital education and teaching resource center of higher vocational technology. At present, the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment in the school is nearly 100 million yuan, the library has 2.46 million books (including 840,000 e-books), more than 2,000 Chinese and foreign paper newspapers and periodicals, nearly 20,000 Chinese and foreign electronic periodicals and 22 Chinese and foreign electronic resource banks, which have good conditions for running a school. The school has a number of scientific research institutions, such as the College of Higher Education and Vocational Education and the Institute of Ethnic Studies.

School development goals: Make use of the right to award master's and bachelor's degrees, coordinate the development of vocational education-oriented normal education and multi-disciplines, adhere to the school orientation of "facing, serving and leading vocational education" on the basis of Guangdong Industrial Training Center, Teacher Training Center and Higher Vocational Education Research Center, and strive to build the school into a leading vocational and technical normal university with certain international influence among similar institutions in China. Guangdong Light Industry Technician College and Guangdong Light Industry Senior Technical School, founded in 1974, are public full-time national key technical schools. In 2004, it passed the ISO900 1 quality management system certification; In 2005, it was awarded the title of "National Advanced Unit of Vocational Education"; In 2006, it was rated as "National Advanced Employment Promotion Unit" and "National Top 100 Education Innovation Schools"; In 2007, it won the titles of "Advanced Collective of Technical Education System in Guangdong Province", "Contribution Award for Training High-skilled Talents" and "Ranked No.1 in the Competitiveness of Technical Schools in Guangdong Province in 2007". In 2008, it was awarded the honorary title of "National Demonstration Base for Training High-skilled Talents" and "National School for Outstanding Contribution to Earthquake Relief". The school has three campuses: East Campus, West Campus, North Campus, Baiyun Campus, South Campus, Zhongshan Campus, Zhanjiang Campus and Chenghai Campus. Adhering to the school-running philosophy of quality, management, characteristics and brand, we have established an education and training system for junior, middle and high-skilled talents, offered academic education at middle, advanced and technician levels, and set up 38 majors with full-time senior and technician students 17000. The school has a team of experienced and enterprising teachers, with 80% of teachers with senior titles. 10 teachers have won the titles of "Southern Guangdong Technical Expert", "Guangdong May 1st Labor Medal" and "Guangdong Technical Expert". In 2006, the team of teachers won the first prize in the 5th Technical School Teacher Skills Competition of guangzhou cnc Cup. In 2008, the teacher won a first place and two third places in the Guangdong trials of the 3rd National Numerical Control Skills Competition. The school actively explores school-enterprise cooperation, carries out extensive cooperation with enterprises and industries in specialty construction, teacher training, curriculum setting and textbook reform, and introduces more than a dozen enterprises to provide scholarships and grants to students every year. Short-term training and appraisal for junior workers, intermediate workers, senior workers, technicians and senior technicians are offered in the school's vocational skill appraisal institute, high-tech examination station and special operation designated training station, with 2 appraisal posts1person, with more than 4,000 short-term trainings every year, and the professional qualification appraisal reaches 1.5 million person-times. Over the past 36 years, the school has trained hundreds of thousands of middle and senior skilled talents, accumulated rich experience in running schools in the field of technical education, and formed a multi-level, multi-form and multi-channel school-running pattern. The original educational model, excellent teachers, advanced teaching equipment, perfect school facilities and beautiful campus environment ensure high-quality teaching quality. Graduates are well received by enterprises, and the recommended employment rate remains above 98% all the year round. Judging from the data of the above two institutions, Guangdong Technician College is relatively better.