Guangzhou International Economics College

（广州涉外经济职业技术学院）

Basic information

City: Guangzhou, Guangdong
Founded in: 2004
Type: Private University
Number of total students: 20657
Number of international students: 10
Number of faculty: 566

About Guangzhou

Guangzhou is a sprawling port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. The city features avant-garde architecture such as Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House (known as the “double pebble”); the carved box-shaped Guangdong Museum; and the iconic Canton TV Tower skyscraper, resembling a thin hourglass. The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, a temple complex from 1894, also houses the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum. ― Google

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About Guangzhou International Economics College

Guangzhou International Economics College (referred as “GIEC” hereafter) is located in the Baiyun District of Guangzhou, adjacent to Guangzhou Nanhu Tourism Park. At the foot of the scenic Baiyun Mountain, GIEC has superior geographical location, and the transportation is extremely convenient. It is an ideal place to cultivate one’s sentiment and pursue studies. In March 2004, approved by the Guangdong Provincial Government and filed by the Ministry of Education, it was officially named Guangzhou International Economics College and became a provincial full-time general higher vocational college. In March 2009, the Education Working Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China approved the establishment of the Guangzhou International Economics College and Technical College Committee of the Communist Party of China.

The college covers an area of 1,096.82 acres, with a total construction area of nearly 300,000 square meters. The library has over 950,000 books, teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment worth more than 55.87 million yuan. There are 95 training rooms, 211 multimedia classrooms and 8 language studios. It has an advanced network center suitable for the network information age and is equipped with an independent high-speed Internet across all student dormitory.

The college is well known with its financial characteristics, that is, to train high-quality and high-skilled talents with specialized knowledge in foreign languages, international economics and global trade. The school has 10 faculties and a secondary vocational departments, including the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Finance and Economics, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Information Engineering, Faculty of Design, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Chinese and International Education, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Marxism, and Faculty of Music and Dance. This year, 44 courses have been opened. The college currently employed 485 full-time teachers, including: 150 senior professional titles, 3 provincial private excellent teachers, 7 excellent teachers from southern Guangdong, 243 normal full time, and 11 foreign teachers. Combined as the core, a professional team with specialization teaching has been formed.

The college pays close attention to the cultivation of students’ foreign language ability. In order to highlight the characteristics of “globalisation”, bilingual teaching is carried out in many majors, and more bilingual courses will be carried out, with plans for over half of the majors in the next five years. The school has opened up many avenues for students and to travel around the world, with programs such as “international short-term study”, “student exchange programs”, “overseas vacation courses” and “long term studying abroad”. The college has successively established cooperative relations with overly 20 universities including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other regions, and has successfully carried out multi-level international study programs.

In order to adapt to the new pattern and changes in the international economy, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the strategic concept of the “Belt and Road Initiative”, which will expand China’s influence and help the formation of a new Eurasian business channel and economic development belt. With this in mind, the Chinese education will be particularly important. Therefore, GIEC has made solid progress in Chinese education. At present, GIEC’s Chinese language school has conducted enrolment work in countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Germany, Portugal and other Middle East countries and African countries.

GIEC currently has 13,661 full-time tertiary students. In the past 16 years, GIEC has trained countless talents for the growth of our country’s modernization, allowing thousands of young students to change their future through knowledge and skills. Many of them went abroad to further their studies and development, and founded their own businesses, factories, and shops, others displayed their talents and made achievements in many fields and areas, becoming the backbone in our current industries and enterprises.

GIEC effectiveness in running the college has been recognized by government officials and the general public. In the past three years, GIEC has won awards and honors such as the “2017 Guangdong Provincial Advanced Collective for Foreign Exchange and Cooperation of Colleges and Universities”, “2017 National Education Reform and Innovation Demonstration (College) School”, “2018 Guangdong Provincial Advanced Unit for Vocational Capacity Building”, “2018 Guangdong University (Higher Vocational College Group) New Media Influence”, “2018-2019 Top 100 Vocational College Officials”, “2019 Guangdong Contemporary Quality Private School”, etc. In 2015, it was named as “Guangdong Provincial Social Organization 5A Level Unit” by the Guangdong Provincial Civil Affairs Department, and has won the “Excellent” grade in the employment supervision of the Guangdong Provincial Education Department.

Advantages

Guangzhou International Economics College complies with the trend of the internationalization of education and “foreign-related characteristic” school direction, set up foreign exchange center and the Chinese and international education college, at present, with Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Taiwan and other countries and regions of many colleges and universities to establish relations of cooperation, For foreign students to provide “international innovation class”, “IELTS Intensive English class”, “overseas short-term study tour”, “overseas paid internship”, “overseas long-term study” and other programs. According to the statistics of the number of overseas students studying, internships and study Tours in recent years, 230 students went to Singapore, 130 to Japan, 250 to South Korea, and more than 50 students went to the United States, Canada, Australia, India and other countries. At the same time, the university’s leaders and teachers went abroad for exchange and investigation. We also received dozens of delegations of leaders, teachers and students from overseas institutions. The true realization of the school at the beginning of the concept of running a school – “to the world from here to start”.

The college attaches great importance to the cultivation of students’ foreign language ability. In order to highlight the characteristics of “foreign-related” education, bilingual teaching has been carried out in several majors, and we strive to develop bilingual courses in nearly half of the majors in the next five years. The university has opened up a way for students and even the university to go global with such programs as “short-term overseas study Tour”, “Exchange Student Program”, “Overseas summer Courses” and “Overseas study”. The university has established friendly and cooperative relations with nearly 20 universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries and regions, and successfully carried out multi-level and multi-form foreign exchange programs.

In order to adapt to the new pattern and changes of the international economy, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the strategic concept of “One Belt and One Road”, which is conducive to the formation of a new Eurasian trade corridor and economic development belt while expanding China’s influence. Under such circumstances, Chinese education is of particular importance. As a result, the college is steadily promoting Chinese education. At present, the college of Chinese language and Culture of THE university has been recruiting students from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Germany, Portugal and some Middle East countries and African countries.

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