Nanjing Vocational College of Science and Technology was founded in 1958. Its educational history can be traced back to Mr. Fan Xudong, the pioneer of the national chemical industry, who founded the "No.1 Far East Factory" in 1934, the school run by Yongli Chemical Industry Company (from which the place name of the factory comes). It has gone through Yongli Chemical College, Nanhua Chemical College, Nanhua Technical School, Nanjing Dynamics School Branch of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and Chemicals. The historical changes of Nanjing Chemical School, Nanjing Chemical Fertilizer Plant Chemical School, Nanhua Chemical School, Nanhua Branch of Nanjing Chemical College, Nanjing Chemical School, Nanjing Chemical Vocational College and Nanjing Vocational College of Science and Technology. In 2001, the school was upgraded to full-time ordinary colleges and universities independently; in 2007, it became the first provincial-level demonstration vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province; in 2010, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance officially designated as the construction unit of national backbone universities; in 2014, it passed the acceptance of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance; in February 2015, the school was renamed Nanjing Vocational College of Science and Technology. Located in the hinterland of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area, the school is a full-time college run by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and directly managed by the Department of Education.

Over the past 60 years, the school has always adhered to the principle of "running socialistic higher vocational education with people's satisfaction, rooting in chemical industry, Building Morality and serving regional economy and society". It adheres to the principle of "quality-oriented, promoting school scientific development; educating people-oriented, promoting the all-round development of teachers and students; chemical industry-oriented, promoting the development of characteristic advantages". It also adheres to the principle of "win-win cooperation between government, schools and enterprises". We should adhere to the development orientation of "basing on Jiangsu, facing the whole country, running specialties and upgrading levels, taking chemical industry as the backbone and serving other industries", adhere to the four strategies of "characteristic development, talents strengthening schools, opening schools and system innovation", implement the management system of "running schools by law, democracy and science", and strive to cultivate them. The all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty requires high-quality technical and skilled personnel for economic and social development.

At present, the school is the deputy director unit of the Education Working Committee of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, the deputy director unit of the responsibility caring Working Committee of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation and the head unit of the working group of the national responsibility caring institutions, the deputy director unit of the vocational education teaching steering Committee of the petroleum and chemical industry of the Ministry of Education, and the deputy president unit and post of the China Chemical Industry Education Association The chairman unit of the Education Work Committee, the vice-chairman unit of the Vocational Education Branch of the China Association for International Exchange of Education, the deputy secretary-general unit of the China Higher Vocational Education Cooperation and Exchange Working Committee, the vice-chairman unit of the Jiangsu Foreign Student Education Management Research Association and the chairman unit of the Jiangsu Chemical Vocational Education Group are sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the provincial education department and the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation The designated base for the skills competition of "Chemical Equipment Maintenance" and "Fine Chemical Production Technology" in the national vocational colleges is the "International Exchange and Training Base of National Petroleum and Chemical Vocational Education", the "Training and Transport Base of High-quality Human Resources in Sinopec System", and the pilot projects of "3+2 Subsection Training", "4+0" Undergraduate Joint Training Project and "3+3" Project in the secondary vocational colleges. Higher vocational colleges. The school has been awarded "National Employment Demonstration Unit of Higher Vocational Colleges", "Advanced Collective of Graduates'Employment in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Colleges of Teaching in Jiangsu Province", "Harmonious Campus in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization Construction in Jiangsu Province", "Training Demonstration Base for High-skilled Talents in Jiangsu Province", "Construction Demonstration More than 30 honorary titles at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, such as universities and civilized units in Jiangsu Province. In 2016, the school crowded into the top 30 talents competitiveness of Jiangsu Higher Vocational Colleges with the ninth best result.

The school now covers an area of 740 mu with a total construction area of 350,000 square meters. More than 11,000 full-time students are enrolled. There are currently ten colleges (College of Chemical Engineering and Materials, College of Biology and Environment, College of Intelligent Manufacturing, College of Electricity and Control, College of Aviation and Automobile, College of Information Engineering, College of Economics and Management, College of Architecture and Art Design, College of Continuing Education and College of International Education), three (Ministry of Social Sciences, Department of Basic Sciences, Department of Sports), and one (Engineering Training Center). Fourteen teaching units. At present, the school has formed a multi-disciplinary and coordinated development professional structure, which is mainly composed of work, economy, culture, management and art. It covers 9 major clusters of 51 majors.

The school has five national key construction specialty groups (covering 23 specialties), two central financial support key construction specialties, four provincial key specialty groups, seven brand specialties in Jiangsu Province and five provincial high-level key specialties. In 2015, the school's specialty of fine chemical technology and chemical equipment technology was approved as "the first phase project of brand specialty construction in Jiangsu universities". The school has built 225 national and provincial laboratories, training rooms, training centers and training bases. It has won two national awards for teaching achievement and 10 provincial awards for teaching achievement. It has completed two national excellent courses, two national resource sharing excellent courses, eight provincial excellent courses, three provincial foreign students'English teaching excellent courses, and one national and provincial courseware award each. It has participated in the construction of three national professional teaching resource banks.

There are 643 faculty members and 493 full-time teachers in the school. Among them, 194 have senior professional titles, accounting for 39%, 376 have master's degree, accounting for 76.3%, 92% have "double quality" and 35% have overseas learning experience. At present, there are 6 famous teachers in chemical vocational education in China, 3 famous teachers in Colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province and 21 famous teachers at school level. Since 2007, there have been 10 projects funded by the "Six Talents Peaks", 15 "333 High-level Talents Training Project" in Jiangsu Province, 31 "Blue Project" excellent young backbone teachers, 1 excellent scientific and technological innovation team in Jiangsu Province, 4 leaders in technical disciplines in young and middle-aged industries in Nanjing, and 2 "321 Talents" in Nanjing City. They have already built up scientific and technological leaders and teaching personnel. Famous teachers, professional leaders, backbone teachers, new teachers and five levels of teacher development echelon, at the same time, 552 part-time teachers from the front line of enterprises were hired, forming a reasonable structure, stable scale, and optimized resource allocation of teachers team construction pattern.

The school enrolls about 4000 students every year. The enrollment scope has expanded to more than 20 provinces (autonomous regions) such as Zhejiang, Shandong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hainan and Inner Mongolia. Over the past 60 years, the school has trained and transported nearly 80,000 specialized talents, which has made positive contributions to local economic and social development. In recent years, the average employment rate of school graduates is over 98%, and the quality of employment has steadily improved. According to the survey report of McCoth Company in recent years, the employment rate of chemical graduates in schools is 100%, the professional counterpart rate is over 85%, which is higher than the average professional counterpart rate of Higher Vocational Colleges in China by more than 20%, and the employers'satisfaction with the school graduates is over 90%.

The school practices the educational concept of "four-level progressive, combination of virtual and real", explores and forms the training mode of "integration of production, learning and research, integration of teaching, competition and competition, and alternation of work and learning", establishes the "four-oriented" educational concept of "comprehensive development, healthy development, personalized development and lifelong development of each student in school", and adheres to the "student-oriented, moral education first". Emphasis should be placed on practice and innovation as the soul, and efforts should be made to train "four possessions" (moral, ambitious, talented and promising) talents. Creating innovative entrepreneurship system with higher vocational characteristics and industry characteristics, setting up student entrepreneurship platforms such as "Nanjing University Student Entrepreneurship Park", "Jiangsu University Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base", "Jiangsu Zhongchuang Space", Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology "Double Real and Double Business Base". Establishing seed fund for entrepreneurship, alumni innovation and entrepreneurship scholarship fund, and vigorously supporting students'Entreprene The school has beautiful campus environment, complete teaching facilities, excellent learning and living conditions, all freshmen dormitories are equipped with air-conditioning and network, the school has more than 100 associations at the two levels of the school and college, and carries out various and colorful campus cultural activities such as college students'cultural and art festivals, community cultural festivals, academic and technological weeks. The school won the first prize in the National Vocational School Innovation and Innovation Entrepreneurship Competition of "Challenge Cup - Rainbow Life" in 2018.

The school now has four provincial centers, such as Jiangsu Fine Chemical Engineering Research Center, Jiangsu MR Targeted Imaging Agent Research Engineering Laboratory, and five municipal engineering research centers, such as Nanjing Amino Molding Plastic Engineering Research Center and Nanjing Mechanical Sealing Engineering Research Center, and has built 40 innovative platforms of the Beidou Project for Scientific Research. The university-enterprise cooperative innovation platform has basically formed a scientific and technological service system with low-carbon, energy-saving and environmental protection industries as the guide, focusing on the development of advanced equipment manufacturing, new energy, new materials and new technology. In 2014, it was recognized as the demonstration base of popular science education in Nanjing and the base of popular science education in Jiangsu Province.

In 2011, Zhongshan Science and Technology Pioneering Park Co., Ltd. of Nanjing Chemical Academy, which is jointly invested by government, school and enterprise and operated by joint-stock system, was established. It has successively obtained the qualification of provincial university science and technology park, provincial science and Technology Pioneering park, national "dual-solid and dual-industry" base, National Science and technology enterprise incubator and national public creation space. There are 132 enterprises in the kindergarten, including 25 teachers and 41 University students. The total output value is over 800 million yuan and the tax revenue is over 30 million yuan, providing nearly 1,000 jobs for the society. Relying on various platforms, more than 150 national, provincial and municipal scientific research and Humanities and Social Sciences projects, more than 4 million yuan of longitudinal research funds, and 2 projects of Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education have been approved. In 2018, new breakthroughs have been made in scientific research. Two natural fund projects of Jiangsu Science and Technology Department, one general humanities and Social Sciences project of Ministry of Education and one social sciences fund of Jiangsu Province have been successfully approved. 328 horizontal scientific research projects have been completed, and more than 51.0 million yuan has been spent on scientific research funds and social services, of which 23 million yuan has been spent on four technical services. 1293 patents were applied for and 473 patents were authorized, including 56 invention patents, 33 intellectual property rights and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and 2 PCT international patents. For three consecutive years, these patents were awarded by large patentees of local governments. More than 500 papers were published in SCI, EI and core journals, and 33 prizes were awarded for scientific research achievements at or above the provincial level. Among them, one first prize was awarded for the fourth China Chemical Education and Scientific Research Achievement Award, and two second prizes were awarded for scientific and technological progress by Jiangsu Light Industry Association in 2015. In recent years, the school has been awarded the honorary title of "Advanced University of Science and Technology in Jiangsu Province". Jointly with local governments to build high-skilled personnel flow workstations and excellent provincial "community colleges". In 2013, in the "Interactive Development Assessment between Ningxia Universities and Nanjing" survey organized by Jiangsu Science and Technology Department for the first time, Ningxia Higher Vocational College ranked first in serving local economic and social development; in 2015, the school successfully crowded into the top 16 of 200 national demonstration (backbone) Higher Vocational Colleges in China.

The school is the only full-fledged member of the European Union of Vocational Education Institutions (EVBB) in China and one of the three Chinese member units of the United States Community College International Development Alliance (CCID). It actively serves as a National Petroleum and chemical vocational college on the two platforms of "National Petroleum and Chemical Vocational Education International Exchange and Training Base" and "Southern Academy of Sciences-German Magdeburg Overseas Training Center". It provides international exchange and training services, and has established stable exchanges and cooperative relations with more than 40 universities or institutions in 17 countries and regions such as Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland and Indonesia. In 2013, for the first time, 540 overseas students were enrolled, ranking first in the province. Since 2013, China-Canada CNC Competition has been held jointly with Dawson College of Canada, which is the first international skill competition held by domestic higher vocational colleges. In 2015, it became the first pilot evaluation unit to accept Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools in China. In 2013, the school won the first award of "Jiangsu Advanced School of International Cooperation and Exchange in Education" and "Advanced Collective of Overseas Students'Education in China". In 2016, it was approved to study in Jiangsu Target School. On March 31, 2018, President Hague Gengob of Namibia, invited by President Xi Jinping to China for a state visit, and his wife Monica Gengs came to visit the university.

The school earnestly carries out the requirements of strict Party management in an all-round way, adheres to the principles of "strong leadership, smooth mechanism, strict law and circumstance, simple work, keeping pace with the times, and emphasizing practical results", and takes the Party's mass line educational practice activities, "three stringent and three solid practices", "two learning and one doing" thematic educational practice activities and the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout as an opportunity to timely adopt the "establishment, reform and abolition" approach. In recent years, 127 Party-building management systems covering ideological, organizational, style, anti-corruption and honest work management requirements have been formulated and promulgated in a timely manner, basically removing the institutional and institutional obstacles that restrict the development of Party-building in schools, thus forming a more scientific, rational, systematic and comprehensive standard. The system system that can be used and applied tightly weaves the cage of system, and basically forms a long-term mechanism of system governing people, affairs and power.

With the motto of "benevolence, truth-seeking, devotion and innovation", the school has formed the fine school style of "civilization, unity, diligence and enterprising" and the style of "hard work, rigorous, realistic and innovative", and has forged the spirit of "striving for excellence and pursuing excellence" in the long-term process of running the school. The school will firmly seize the strategic opportunity period for the vigorous development of vocational education by the state, adhere to the guiding ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Xi Jinping's new era, firmly establish the five development concepts of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing", actively undertake the mission of serving regional economic and social development and national strategic initiatives, and take "two gatherings and one high" as its command. With the opportunity of the 60th anniversary high-quality development conference of the school, we should adhere to the principle of cultivating people with moral integrity, devote ourselves to the connotation construction, strengthen the characteristic development, deepen the reform constantly, comprehensively improve the ability and level of personnel training, scientific research, serving the society, cultural inheritance and innovation, and strive to build the school into a "first-class, distinctive and energetic" higher vocational college.