About the university
Suzhou Institute of Trade & Commerce (SITC) is a full-time public higher vocational school accredited by Jiangsu Education Department. Our history began in — with the merger of two national key technical secondary schools, Jiangsu Silk School and Jiangsu Suzhou Commercial School. Now we have grown into a large family of — students and 535 staff members. With our campus spanning roughly 135 acres and our constructions covering more than 64 acres, we offer our students with well-equipped facilities, for instance, buildings designed for 9 sub-schools including the School of E-Commerce and Logistics and the School of Information Technology. As an educational institution aiming to serve local, regional and national communities with professional competencies and knowledge, we live our motto "Virtue and Skills" as we move forward. And moving forward, we are determined to develop ourselves into an industry led, nationally recognized and internationally renowned institution, and, to back smart enterprises and their services with our well-educated students and distinguished faculty. Our ultimate goal is to help promote the country's high-quality development in a new era, for which we will grow on a solid foundation, raise the bar for ourselves and strive constantly for excellence.
We Place Emphasis on Smart Industry
SITC has set up a network of specialties focusing on smart equipment, smart factories and smart services for the purpose of meeting local industrial needs. Through our reforms directed at improving teaching skills, professional ethics and teacher performance, we have made significant achievements including 1 national educational resource repository, 2 professional service industry targeted majors and 3 training bases financially supported by the central government, 1 national excellent online open course, 5 pilot projects in support of the national "1 Plus X" certificate system, 18 national planning textbooks, 5 provincial key textbooks, 6 provincial high-level core majors, 2 provincial manufacturing training bases, and 2 provincial collaborative innovation centers. Furthermore, ten of our courses have been nominated for the provincial excellent online open course list. Our faculty members also have won dozens of awards over the years, including one grand prize, two first prizes and six second prizes of the Jiangsu Province Teaching Achievement Award.
We Maintain a Distinguished Faculty
By implementing the national projects, the "Double Hundred" project and the "Seven Principles for Teachers" project, SITC is committed to a distinguished faculty of which over 90% possess "dual qualifications". We now have 448 full-time teachers, 83 faculty members with doctorate degrees, 148 with associate titles and above, and 30 with senior titles. With the efforts of our faculty, we successfully build 5 excellent faculty teams accredited by the province. Furthermore, we have 1 national excellent teacher, 2 provincial renowned teachers, 11 young and middle-aged technology leaders leading the provincial project known as the "333 High-Level Talent Education Project", 9 academic leaders leading the provincial project known as the "Qing Lan Project", 24 outstanding young backbone teachers, 2 industry professors, and 7 outstanding faculty members who have been listed in the Jiangsu Provincial IP Talent Pool.
We Integrate Vocational Education with Industry
SITC actively promotes the in-depth cooperation between sub-schools and local leading smart enterprises. We have developed a new school-company cooperation strategy of "pairing one class with one enterprise and pairing one major with certain enterprises". Now we have a 420k-square-meter vocational education zone named as the Suzhou Modern Service Industry Vocational Education Zone, which was awarded "Jiangsu Province Science-and-Technology Business Incubator" due to its significant achievements. In cooperation with leading enterprises such as JD.com Inc., we have also established 2 Provincial Vocational Education & Industry Training Bases, offering over 390 training and job opportunities for our students. To further expand our strategy of education-industry integration, we have established the Lafine Women's Fashion School jointly with Suzhou Huasha Fashion Co. Ltd. and the SITC-Etern Smart Factory Industry Institute jointly with Jiangsu Etern Co., Ltd. And with the support of Etern, we have also started the SITC-Etern Bangladesh College to further promote the Belt and Road Initiative worldwide.
We Believe in Technology and Innovation
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