Brief Introduction to Zhengzhou Tourism College
Founded in 1985, Zhengzhou Tourism College was originally named Zhengzhou Tourism School, it is affiliated to Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government. After four phases of leapfrog development, it was approved by Henan Provincial People's Government and recorded by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China as a public vocational college in May 2004.
The college has formed a college motto of “Moral Composition and Ability Training, the Unity of Knowledge and Action”, a college ethos of “Unity, Diligence, Pragmatism and Innovation”, a college teaching style of “Strict in Self-cultivation, Diligent in Scholarship”, a college study style of “Studying Hard and Thinking Well, The Pursuit of Truth and Tranquility” in the process of long term college-running. The college covers an area of 1251 mu with a total construction area of 587,000 square meters, of which the new campus covers an area of 1036 mu with a construction area of nearly 447,000 square meters.
With 12 affiliated schools, 1 school of continuing education and 1 school of international education, Zhengzhou Tourism College has an
enrolment of 18663 full-time students. It sets up 47 higher vocational majors and 8 majors for five-year junior college, of which 2 are the key construction specialties supported by central government budget, 2 national vocational college tourism model programs, 4 specialties of vocational education innovation and development plan backbone of the Ministry of Education, 1 productive training base, 1 "double-professionally-titled" teacher training base, 1 national online quality course of vocational education, 6 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilots, 4 provincial-level specialties,1 provincial excellent teaching team, 2 excellent grass-roots teaching organizations of provincial colleges and universities, 23 provincial boutique online open courses, 9 provincial curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, 4 provincial first-class core courses(offline), 3 provincial classroom revolution typical cases, 3 provincial demonstration training bases,1 provincial intangible cultural heritage research base,1 provincial level Huang Danian teacher team,1 pilot school of comprehensive reform of “three-full education”, 1 provincial first batch of special training programs for field engineer has been approved, 8 city-level key and model majors,1 urgent need major for local colleges and universities of the city, 1 city-level excellent teaching organization, 5 city-level excellent teaching teams, 7 city-level quality resources sharing course, 2 city-level key laboratories. It is one of the undertaking colleges from the Tourism Management Specialty Industry Teaching Steering Committee under National Tourism Industry Steering Committee.
The college insists on talent to strengthen the college, through both cultivation and introduction, the college has formed a team of high-quality teachers with moral integrity, excellent business ability and rational construction. And the college has 892 full-time teachers and faculty members, including 27 professors, 1 research fellow, over 168 associate professors or equivalent, 36 doctors & PHD. candidates, 540 masters. Among whom one enjoys government allowance of the State Council, 1 national “Ten Thousand Talents Plan” teaching master, 1 academic and technical leader in Henan Province, 1 enjoys Henan Provincial Government Special Allowance, there is one person of special support for high level talents in “Henan Province Central Plains Thousand Talents Plan”, 4 national-level industry masters, 6 provincial level vocational education experts, 1 teaching master of the institution of higher learning of the province, 17 academic and technical leaders accredited by the Education Department of Henan Province, 3 provincial level backbone teachers. The college has also employed a number of industry experts and first-line technical experts as part-time teachers. In recent three years, the teachers of the college have participated in teacher teaching ability competition and have won 1 national first prize, 3 first prize, 13 second prize, 9 third prize of the provincial level, and they participated in the Henan Province Youth Teacher Classroom Teaching Innovation Competition and have won 1 special prize, 4 first prize, 7 second prize and 1 third prize.
The college firmly establishes the concept of “strengthening the college through scientific research”, persists in conducting scientific research around tourism, and the quantity and quality of scientific research achievements have been significantly improved. There are more than 20 scientific research platforms such as Henan Tourism Research
Institute and Tourism Big Data Research Center, among which the Culture and Tourism Industry Development Research Center, Tourism Planning Research Center and Tourism Education Research Center, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Research of Zhengzhou Tourism College have been rated as the scientific research base of Zhengzhou Philosophy and Social Science Research Base. In recent years, the college has completed 100 provincial and ministerial level projects, 597 city level projects, published 208 books and textbooks, and published 1765 academic research papers (of which 722 are core or above papers).
The college is fully equipped with modern teaching facilities. The total value of fixed assets of the college is over 1.33 billion yuan, of which the teaching facilities are more than 238.38 million yuan. The library covers a gross building area of 31.11 thousand square meters, and has a collection of over 1.28 million paper books, 1.36 million volumes (types), 7 electronic resource databases, 260.46 thousand electronic journals, with 132.61 GB available digital resources. The college has 192 on-campus training rooms and 580 training and teaching places now.
Zhengzhou Tourism College adheres to the open-up strategy in education. It has established in-depth cooperation with a number of high-end enterprises such as Diaoyutai State Guesthouse，the Great Hall of the People，Shanghai Disney Resort , Haichang Ocean Park, Inter Continental Hotels Group, Marriott International Hotel Management Group, Hilton International Hotel Management Group, Zhongzhou International Group, Tongcheng Yilong and so on. The college has set up over 300 off-campus internship bases. The college has been widely cooperating with universities and enterprises with countries and regions as Japan, Republic of Korea, the United States, Germany, Austria. Including Royal Caribbean Cruises Company, Star Dream of Singapore, Star Cruises Line of Hong Kong, Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, USA, Howon University and Jeju Tourism University in Republic of Korea, and Japan Hotel Association etc.
The college adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents, focuses on the goal of cultivating applied talents, focuses on cultivating high quality technical and skilled talents who can serve the frontline of local economic and social development and train those who can compete, retain, do well and develop”. And the college has won 1 second prize for national teaching achievements, 1 special prize of provincial teaching achievement, 3 first prize and 4 second prize of the province. In recent 3 years, the students of the college have won 7 first prize and 5 second prize of the national vocational college skills competition and national tourism college service skills competition. And the students of the college have won 10 first prize, 15 second prize of the provincial-level competition. And the employment quality of the graduates of the college has steadily improved. And in recent years, the employment rate of graduates of the college has always remained above 96%. And the college has been selected as a designated selection unit by Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, the Great Hall of the People, and the Central Security Bureau.5 of building a platform for the free development of all the people, it is focusing on training high-quality technical and skilled talents serving the tourism industry for the local economic and social development. In recent 3 years, the college has won 10 first prizes,10 second prizes in National Vocational College Skills Competition and Service Skills Competition of National Tourism Colleges and Universities, and the college has won 11 first prizes,6 second prizes in the competitions of the province. In recent years, the employment rate of the college graduates is always above 96%, and the college has been determined as a designated personnel selection unit by Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, the Great Hall of People and the Central Security Bureau etc.
Zhengzhou Tourism College is the vice president unit of Tourism Education Branch of China Tourism Association, the unit of National Tourism Education Five-star Alliance, and the chairman unit of Henan Provincial Tourism Higher Vocational Education Group. It has successively won the titles of the national advanced unit of vocational education, model vocational education group of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, school-enterprise cooperation demonstration base of tourism vocational education of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, it is a demonstration base of "one school, one brand" in the field of national sports and culture, high level higher vocational school and high level professional construction project unit in Henan Province, the brand model college in Henan higher vocational education, high quality vocational college, a Top-10 model college with the highest employment competitiveness in Henan, the most influential model college in Henan Province, the training base of double-professionally-titled teachers in vocational education of Henan Province, a civilized college of Henan Province, the provincial civilized unit, Henan Province Civilized Campus Model, model college in running school by law of Henan Province.
The college is vigorously advancing into a new era, working together on a new journey now. Directed by President Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Zhengzhou Tourism College will adhere to and fulfill the college motto of “Moral Composition and Ability Training, the Unity of Knowledge and Action”, and the college is closely focusing on national and regional social-economic development and major strategic needs to stick to informationization, internationalization, amalgamation, branding. The college will start from Henan, and keep the whole country in view and look into the future, promote scientific, connotative, characteristic, innovative development in an all-round way, and try to fulfill a breakthrough in talent cultivation, scientific research, social services, integrating development and so on. And the college is making arduous efforts to make the college an internationally known, modern college or university of applied technology with distinctive tourism feature.