Located in Nanning, the capital city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China and under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Department of Transport, Guangxi Transport Vocational and Technical College (GTVTC) is a higher education institution that cultivates high-quality technical and skilled personnel in transportation.

With a long history, GTVTC is formerly known as Guangxi Transport School that was founded in 1958 and promoted in 2002 to a college that offers higher vocational education. Over the 66 years since its establishment, GTVTC has graduated over 100,000 students for the national transportation industry and the economic and social development of Guangxi, making itself the "cradle of transportation talents in Guangxi".

With numerous accomplishments in education, GTVTC has become one of high-level vocational colleges in the western region of China. Over the years, GTVTC has been recognized by the public and won a number of honors granted by various authorities, such as a national high-quality vocational college in China, a national demonstration school for vocational education in transportation, one of the first batch of modern apprenticeship pilot colleges, one of the first batch of 1+X certificate system pilot colleges, the first batch of civilized units in the transportation industry, the first batch of "Double High" college construction units in Guangxi, the first batch of characteristic higher education institutions in Guangxi, the international exchange and cooperation pilot colleges in Guangxi of higher vocational education, the pilot colleges in Guangxi for deepening the new era education evaluation and reform, the only designated training college in Guangxi for directly recruited noncommissioned officers of People’s Liberation Army, as well as the demonstration school in Guangxi for governing schools by law and the demonstration school in Guangxi for Party building work (the only case for vocational colleges in Guangxi), etc., and GTVTC is honored as an outstanding unit for employment and entrepreneurship work of college graduates in Guangxi for 21 consecutive years.

GTVTC currently has three campuses, i.e., Kunlun, Yuanhu, and Xiangsihu, covering a total area of over 2700 mu (1.8 million square meters), with 25,860 full-time students enrolled.

GTVTC is committed to building a high-quality professional and innovative teaching team, with over 30% of faculty members holding senior professional titles, 51.56% holding master's degrees or above, 85.26% having dual teacher qualifications, and 344 industry mentors. GTVTC currently boasts a national vocational college teacher teaching innovation team, a national curriculum ideological and political teaching team, a national level automotive inspection and maintenance technology team, and 9 autonomous region level teaching teams, including a Huang Danian style teaching team of universities in Guangxi. It is also awarded as Guangxi Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base and has a group of high-level talents, whose honorary titles include national transportation technology experts, national course ideological and political education masters, young talents of the Ministry of Transport in transportation science and technology, and teaching masters of universities in Guangxi.

GTVTC consists of teaching units, which include School of Road and Bridge Engineering, School of Automotive Engineering, School of Economic Management, School of Transportation Information Engineering, School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, School of Navigation Engineering, ASEAN International School, School of Marxism, Department of General Education, and Department of Physical Education; and business companies, which include Guangxi Jiaoyuan Driving School Training Co., Ltd.

Closely keeping up with the development, adjustment, and optimization of the transportation industry, GTVTC offers 46 academic programs, which cover 8 major transportation professional groups such as road and bridge, automobile, logistics, transportation information, rail transit, and port and navigation. It has created a distinctive transportation professional system and has become a national backbone major, a demonstration characteristic major and training base in Guangxi, and a research base for the development of vocational education majors in Guangxi. GTVTC boasts 2 national vocational college demonstration majors and 6 autonomous region vocational education demonstration characteristic majors; It has also 4 national demonstration training bases aided by the central government's financial support, 2 national production training bases, 1 national demonstration virtual simulation training base, 2 demonstration training bases of the Ministry of Transport, 8 autonomous region demonstration training bases, and 433 off campus practical teaching places. Over the past five years, GTVTC has won over 100 national level achievements, honors or titles, including the National Advanced Collective in Textbooks, the National Teaching Achievement Award, the National Textbook Construction Award, the Teaching Team, and the First Prize in Skills Competition.

GTVTC vigorously promotes the deep integration of industry and education, and the school-enterprise collaborative education. In 2008, GTVTC took the lead in establishing a school-enterprise cooperation development council in vocational colleges in Guangxi. In 2016, it became the secretary-general unit of the Guangxi Transportation Industry Vocational Education Teaching Guidance Committee. In 2018, the Guangxi Transportation Vocational Education Group, led by GTVTC, was successively approved as one of the "first batch of demonstration vocational education groups in Guangxi" and a " cultivation unit for national demonstration vocational education group". Continuously deepening the innovative talent training model, focusing on enhancing the contribution to the revitalization of Guangxi's industries, GTVTC jointly opens 14 industrial colleges with well-known companies, and builds 6 types of shared campus teaching workshops and establishes construction standards cooperates with industry and enterprises. It also offers partnership educational programs with leading companies such as Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group, and 24 internationally renowned companies such as Volkswagen of Germany and KONE of Finland.

Fully leveraging its educational resources and intellectual advantages, enhancing its ability to serve economic and social development and  transportation industry of Guangxi, GTVTC has established a "province-department-college" three-tier technology research and development platform, jointly built 13 provincial-level and ministerial level technology innovation platforms, including the Guangxi Underwater Rock Breaking Engineering Research Center, the Automotive Mechatronics Collaborative Innovation Center, and the New Generation Transportation Infrastructure Green Intelligent Construction and Management Technology and Industrialization Innovation Alliance. It has also created 8 training platforms, including the China-ASEAN (Guangxi) Transport Education and Training Center.

Adhering to the principle of open education, as one of the first batch of international (regional) exchange and cooperation pilot colleges in Guangxi and the vice chairman unit of the China-ASEAN Transport Vocational Education Alliance, GTVTC actively responds to the "Belt and Road Initiative", vigorously carries out international (regional) exchanges and cooperation, and has jointly carried out exchanges and cooperation in technical skills training and services, international student training, partnership programs, cultural exchanges and other fields with 32 universities and companies in 17 countries, including Germany, the United Kingdom, India, Thailand, Myanmar, and the region of Taiwan.

We bravely shoulder the new mission of cultivating talents with knowledge and ethics, forge ahead and embark on a new journey of excellence in GTVTC. Adhering to the school motto of "unity, diligence, pragmatism, and innovation" and promoting the GTVTC spirit of "lofty aspirations, reform and innovation, practical responsibility, and pursuit of excellence", we unite and strive towards the goal of "making GTVTC a national Double-High school and an undergraduate vocational college", and make new and greater contributions to building China into a power of transportation, to building Guangxi into a powerful region of transportation, and to building a magnificent Guangxi with Chinese characteristics in the new era!

(Data updated as of August 2023, Waixuanbei [2023] No. 2)