Guangdong Mechanical & Electrical Polytechnic

Guangdong Mechanical and Electrical Vocational College is a public, full-time engineering-focused higher vocational college under the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education. It currently has 21,000 students and over 1,000 faculty and staff members, including more than 130 with doctoral degrees. Over 90% of the full-time teachers possess dual professional qualifications (both academic and vocational), over 38% hold associate professor or higher titles, over 78% hold master’s degrees or higher, and over 53% have more than three years of industry experience.

The college adheres to an internationalization strategy of “based in the Greater Bay Area, deeply cultivating Southeast Asia, and expanding into Africa,” combining “bringing in” and “going out” to create a unique international cooperation model for mechanical and electrical engineering. It collaborates with the TAFE College of New South Wales, Australia, to offer a Tourism Management program, creating an overseas study platform and cultivating internationally-oriented talents with dual Sino-Australian student status. The success of this collaborative project was praised by the then Governor-General of New South Wales. The CNC Technology program implements the Sino-German Advanced Vocational Education Cooperation (SGAVE) project, and the Automotive Electronics Technology program pilots the Ministry of Education’s “TÜV Rheinland Digital Innovation Empowerment Program,” enhancing the internationalization level of these programs. The college has jointly established two overseas campuses with Chinese-language schools in Malaysia and enterprises and vocational colleges in Thailand, providing skills training and technical services to local teachers and students as well as employees of Chinese and foreign enterprises. It also shares 26 vocational education standards, deepening international production capacity cooperation and contributing to the building of a China-ASEAN vocational education cooperation community. Since 2017, the college has offered a program combining short-term training with formal education for international students. In eight years, it has registered over 500 short-term trainees and nearly 300 full-time international students, making it the first higher vocational college in the province to enroll international students on a large scale for degree programs. The college has established educational exchange and cooperation relationships with overseas organizations and institutions such as the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (Germany), the New South Wales TAFE College (Australia), New Era University College (Malaysia), the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Macau University of Science and Technology, and the Hsiuping University of Science and Technology (Taiwan), actively expanding educational exchange and cooperation with countries along the Belt and Road Initiative. The college has received honors such as “Top 50 International Influencers,” a member of the second batch of “Lingnan Craftsman Colleges” in Guangdong, “Typical Institution for International Cooperation and Exchange in Vocational Education,” and “Excellent Case of International Cooperation.”