Jinhua Vocational and Technical College was founded in 1994 and approved by the Ministry of Education 1998. It is one of the first batch of 28 higher vocational colleges approved by the Ministry of Education.
It integrates the traditions and resources of six technical secondary schools, including Jinhua Normal School, Yiwu Normal School, Jinhua Health School, Jinhua Agricultural School, Jinhua Supply and Marketing School and Zhejiang Agricultural Machinery School. The school can be traced back to Jinhua Government Primary Normal School founded by 1907, with a history of more than 100 years.
Based on vocational education, the school has been continuously inherited and innovated. It has been listed as a national model school, a national high-quality school, a key school in Zhejiang Province, and a national "double-high" school. It has been rated as an advanced unit of national vocational education, and it has been shortlisted as one of the "Top 50" national higher vocational education in terms of service contribution, international influence, teaching resources, educational effect, practice management, teaching management and student management.
It was selected into the national rural revitalization talent training high-quality school, the national vocational education "double-qualified" teacher training base, and was selected into the national four lists of higher vocational colleges such as "typical schools with service contribution, excellent institutions with student development index, superior schools with resource construction and excellent institutions with teacher development index".