In just a few years, the strength of the college has been significantly enhanced, the school-running characteristics and industry advantages have emerged, and the school-running results have been remarkable. At present, the college has delivered 2 183 graduates to the society under the brand of "getting on the bus", and the average employment rate is over 95%, which has won the praise of employers and society, as well as the attention and support of all walks of life and government departments at all levels.
In 2005, the college was rated as "National Advanced Vocational Education Unit" by seven ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Education, and took the lead in passing the acceptance evaluation of the construction of "Shanghai Model Higher Vocational College". In 2005, the college became a vocational education training base (automobile maintenance) recognized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance, and was listed as the construction unit of Shanghai vocational education training base in the same year. The college's education and teaching work has also made remarkable achievements: in 2006, Automobile Marketing Practice was successfully applied for the construction of Shanghai-level top-quality courses, in 2005, the development and construction of automobile business specialty won the second prize of Shanghai's teaching achievement, and the reform and construction of circuit analysis course won the first prize of Shanghai's teaching achievement; In 2004, "Modern Automobile Training Center" was approved as Shanghai 176 National Vocational Skills Appraisal Station; 176 vocational skill appraisal institute was listed as "public training base for vocational education" in Shanghai and the country, and won the third prize of Shanghai Excellent Vocational Skill Appraisal Station. In 2002, the major of "Automobile Business" was listed as a pilot major of professional education and teaching reform in higher vocational colleges by the Ministry of Education. In addition, the reform of the college's logistics service system has achieved good results, and the logistics service center passed the ISO 9001-2000-2000 quality management system certification in 2003.
The leaders of the municipal government and CPPCC made special trips to the college for many times to investigate the situation of running a joint-stock school, fully affirmed the pioneering work of the college of "relying on the advantages of enterprises and industries, without state investment", and summarized it as "relying on enterprises, facing the market, running a characteristic and serving the industry" with the word 16, which became the distinctive purpose of our college.