Xuanhua Vocational College of Science & Technology is a full-time public higher vocational college approved by the Ministry of Education. It is a construction unit of the "Double High" project in Hebei Province, a demonstration point for the inheritance and innovation of ethnic culture in Hebei Province, a key construction project of school-enterprise cooperation in Hebei Province, an outstanding unit in the 9th National Campus Culture Project Evaluation, and a national model unit for greening. Founded in 1917, it was formerly known as the Fifth Normal School of Zhili Province. In 2009, it was renamed Xuanhua Science and Technology College after being filed with the Ministry of Education. The college has two campuses, covering an area of 410 mu and a building area of 178,000 square meters. The college currently has 609 staff members, including 307 teachers with master's degrees, 24 professors, and 182 teachers with senior professional titles or above.
In terms of professional layout, the college fully combines market demand and educational trends to build a comprehensive and highly distinctive discipline system. It offers 56 majors, including music performance, dance performance, preschool education, computer network technology, software technology, accounting computerization, mechanical and electrical integration, e-commerce, new energy vehicle application and maintenance technology, high-speed rail service, photovoltaic power generation technology, wind power generation technology, etc., covering ten major disciplines such as education and sports, energy and power, electronic information, transportation, equipment manufacturing, and medical care. Among them, the music performance and dance performance majors have a solid foundation and have a history of over 60 years of running. The majors always adhere to the educational concept of "inheritance, innovation and service", and have formed a characteristic education system integrating talent cultivation, artistic creation and cultural dissemination. The majors rely on a 5,000-square-meter art training center, equipped with over 100 independent practice rooms and more than 10,000 sets of teaching equipment, and have established a "national and folk art inheritance and innovation" teaching system.The college has 65 professional teachers, all of whom are provincial-level "dual-qualified" teachers. Among them, 75% have dual qualifications of industry practice and academic research, forming an orderly succession of teaching staff composed of the older, middle-aged and younger generations.In 2016, the major was approved as one of the first batch of demonstration points for inheriting and innovating ethnic culture in Hebei Province. Specialized courses such as "Inheriting and Innovating Local Folk Dance" and "Tea Culture and Tea Art Performance" were developed. The course "Tea Culture and Tea Art Performance" was selected as a national-level excellent course. The innovative case of aesthetic education, "Inheriting and Innovating Local Folk Dance-Case of Artistic Inheritance and Innovation of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture in Colleges and Universities", won the first prize in the Sixth National College Students' Art Exhibition. The deep integration of teaching innovation and the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage was achieved. The major deeply integrated into the national cultural development strategy. The teacher-student team successively undertook more than 50 national cultural activities such as the celebration of the torch relay of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the intangible cultural heritage performance in the Zhangjiakou area. The original work "Years of Journey" was broadcast on the prime time of Hebei TV. In the past five years, more than 60 major performances at provincial and municipal levels were organized, including the opening ceremony of the Zhangjiakou Tourism Development Conference. It was reported and publicized by mainstream media such as "Focus Interview" 23 times. The practice-oriented education model of "Promoting Teaching through Performance and Encouraging Learning through Competitions" was formed. The "Literary and Art performance in the countryside" service system was innovatively constructed. The welfare tutoring work in Dezheng Village,Zhangbei,received a special report on "Focus Interview" by CCTV. On average,2000 hours of welfare training were carried out each year,and the service scope covered all 6 districts and 10 counties of Zhangjiakou. More than 20000 grassroots cultural backbone were cultivated. The professional service achievements in promoting local development have been reported and publicized by media such as Hebei Television,"Yan Zhao Daily",and "Hebei News Network", forming a brand effect. The major has become a high-level art talent training base in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region with the mission of cultural inheritance and social service functions.
The college actively responds to the national education policies and deepens international educational exchanges and cooperation. So far, it has established long-term and stable cooperative and exchange relations with universities and educational institutions in countries and regions including Belarus, South Korea, Cameroon, Spain, etc. In 2015, the college obtained the qualification to recruit overseas students and has successively received 72 overseas students from 12 countries including South Korea, Cameroon, Ghana, Botswana, Mauritius, and Kenya. It has also selected 5 young backbone teachers for overseas study, sent 21 students for overseas study and further education, and had 42 exchange students. In 2021 and 2024, the college jointly applied for the "Chinese language + vocational education" international cooperation projects in software technology and mechatronics with Belarus State University of Information and Radioelectronics and Belarus State University of Technology respectively, and both were approved by the provincial education department and filed with the Ministry of Education. Currently, there are 224 students enrolled. In order to further deepen international exchanges and cooperation in vocational education, in 2024, our college successively cooperated with three renowned institutions, namely Belarus State University of Information and Radioelectronics, Belarus State University of Technology, and Belarus State Normal University, to jointly promote the "Chinese language + vocational education" overseas base construction project. Both sides jointly promoted the construction project of the new energy major. The completion of this project marks that the international education integrating Chinese language and new energy vocational skills will inject talent power into the development of the new energy industry in China and Belarus and even more countries.