Established in 1964, Beijing Applied Senior Technical School is one of the oldest technical schools in Beijing. It is affiliated to Beijing Long Da Light Industry Holding Co., Ltd., a municipal school, a fully funded institution and a national key technical school. The school has national vocational skill appraisal institute, advanced technician training project numerical control technician training assessment point, computer information technology intelligent examination station, national high-skilled personnel training project-electromechanical integration vocational skill training assessment point, Haier University Beijing Technical Training Center, Sony Mobile Communication Products (China) Training Center, Lenovo Mobile Internet Technology Training Center and Capital Staff Quality Education Training Station. The school has two campuses, the South Campus and the North Campus, which are located in Fengtai District and Daxing District of Beijing.

Over the years, the school has always adhered to the party's basic line and socialist school-running direction, highlighting the characteristics of mechanic education. Based on Beijing, serving the capital, focusing on the needs of the capital's economic construction, training high-skilled talents for the capital's economic and social development. Explore the law of running a school under the condition of market economy, adhere to the employment orientation, and constantly optimize the professional structure to serve the capital's secondary industry, high-tech industry and high-tech tertiary industry. Taking meeting the needs of the capital's economic construction as the highest principle of running a school, taking the government and social evaluation as the ultimate standard of running a school and the quality of talents, taking serving the economy and contributing to society as the fundamental driving force for the development of the school, developing the school people-oriented and continuously improving the efficiency of running a school. Accurately positioning in the market competition, promoting development through reform, seeking Excellence through characteristics, and taking the road of connotative development have gradually formed their own school-running characteristics.

After more than half a century of entrepreneurial development, the school has formed a talent training pattern from secondary vocational students to higher vocational students, and trained tens of thousands of skilled talents. At present, there are 2300 students in school. There are four professional platforms: modern manufacturing, information technology, electrical and electronic, modern service and finance. Including the application of numerical control technology, computer network and graphic production, building intelligence technology, electrician and electronic technology, modern logistics and e-commerce (civil aviation business information) and so on. In 2008, a five-year "Advanced Engineering College Class" was opened for five majors, including numerical control technology, mechatronics, computer network technology, multimedia design and production, and e-commerce. After completing their studies, students can not only get a university degree, but also get the corresponding advanced engineering certificate, realizing two gains in one class.