Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College Brief

Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College(called YWICC for short), grown out of Yiwu Branch of Hangzhou University (founded in 1993), is the earliest higher vocational college run by the government at county level. With the approval of Zhejiang provincial government, the preparation for its construction began in July, 1997, and in May, 2002, its establishment was officially declared by the government after acceptance.The president of the college is Prof. Jiang Jingping, tutor of graduate students in Zhejiang University.The college, situated in Yiwu city—known as China Commodity City, covers an area of 615 acres and boasts the building floorage of more than 92,000 square meters. Owing to its beautiful scenery, it won the title of “ picturesque campus”.YWICC provides a wide range of education covering business management, computer science, civil engineering, modern secretarial literature, economics, tourism, art design and foreign languages with the number of specialties reaching 14. The college also attacks great importance to the continued education for adults. Developing both full-time and part-time education, the continued education for adults (mainly Yiwu Trade Professional Institute and Yiwu Teaching Station of Long-distance Learning School of Zhejiang University) fully takes advantage of abundant teaching resources and good teaching facilities of YWICC and has been developing rapidly in recent years.The college has 3228 full-time students and more than 700 part-time students, and is well equipped with advanced electronic labs, multi-media rooms and project measuring labs. It has founded nearly 30 off-campus practice bases l, such as the cooperation with the Exhibition Center of Yiwu Commdity City, Yiwu Industrial Designing Company and Yiwu Daily Press. At present the school library has a book collection of 122,000 volumes, of which 600 are periodicals. It also has an electronic reading room. Students’ dormitories are well installed with direct-dialing telephones, cable TV and broad band terminals.The college develops its teaching forces by means of indraught, invitation and training combined. In the past three years, more than 100 teachers have been introduced into the college.Aiming to serve of the development of market economy, the college always places special emphasis on development comprehensive qualities of the students, especially their creativity, and good teaching effects have been well achieved.The Municipal Government has recently made a decision that the educational investment in Yiwu will focus on the construction of YWICC in the next two or three years. By the year of 2006, the infrastructure worth 200 million will have been completed. In three years, Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College will take on a new looking in the beautiful international commodity city!