Jiangsu Engineering Vocational and Technical College is a provincial public full-time general college. The history of running the school can be traced back to the first special textile school founded by the famous patriotic industrialist and educator Mr. Zhangjian in 1912. It has a history of one hundred years and has a profound cultural background. It has trained a large number of excellent talents for the economic and social construction and development of Jiangsu and even the whole country. In 1999, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education and upgraded to Nantong Textile Vocational and Technical College independently. In 2006, it achieved excellent results in the evaluation of the national vocational and technical personnel training level. In 2007, it was designated as the construction unit of Jiangsu provincial demonstration vocational colleges. In 2008, it was designated as the construction institution of the national demonstration vocational and technical college construction plan by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance. In June 2011, it passed the national acceptance and became a national demonstration vocational college. In May 2014, with the approval of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education put it on record, and the school was renamed Jiangsu Engineering Vocational and Technical College. In 2018, it was designated as the construction unit of high-level vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province.

The school is located in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, which is known as "the first city in modern China". It is located in Shanghai's one-hour economic circle. It has convenient transportation and prominent location advantages. The school covers an area of 573232 square meters and a building area of 283632 square meters. The school has complete teaching facilities, advanced equipment, scientific teaching means, and extensive use of modern educational technology, basically realizing the informatization and electronic books. The school has 193 laboratories, including 11 laboratories invested by enterprises and 14 productive training bases built and shared with enterprises. Modern Textile Technology Training Base with Central Financial Support, National Home Textile Designer Professional Qualification Training Center, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance "Construction of Digital Learning Resource Center for Network Education", Vocational College Sub-Center, China Textile and Clothing High-skilled Talents Training Base, Jiangsu Advanced Textile Engineering Technology Center, Jiangsu Home Textile and Clothing Engineering Technology R&D Center, Jiangsu Research and Development Center of Wind and Photovoltaic Complementary Power Generation Technology, Jiangsu Demonstration Training Base, Jiangsu Higher Education Talents Training and Innovation Test Base, Nantong Garment Technology Innovation Center, Nantong Dyeing and Finishing Technology Design Center, Nantong Dyeing and Finishing Technology Public Service Platform, Nanfang Power and Solar Power Technology Key Laboratory, Nantong Small and Medium-sized Enterprises IT Bao public technology service platform, Jiangsu Provincial Basic Course Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute, and with the Haimen Municipal People's Government to build Haimen Coastal Productive Training Base. Nantong Aviation Training Center has been set up in cooperation with Huaxia Aviation Engineering Co., Ltd. It has successfully obtained CCAR147 Aircraft Maintenance Training Qualification and CCAR66 Aircraft Maintenance Examination Point of CAAC. It is the only vocational college in Jiangsu Province that has both of these two qualifications. The school and the German Kuka Group have cooperated in the construction of the Kuka Robot Jiangsu Application and Training Center, which is the Kuka Group Huahua. Oriented training units for skilled personnel in the eastern region.

The school has more than 10,000 full-time students, so it is a comprehensive university with engineering as the main body. At present, there are six secondary colleges and quality teaching departments in Textile and Garment College, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Business (College of Social Management Engineering), College of Art and Design, College of Architectural Engineering, College of Aviation and Transportation Engineering. Setting up 42 majors (directions), traditional majors highlight brand characteristics, new majors close to social needs, with four key construction majors in national demonstration vocational colleges, two majors supported by the central financial support "the project of enhancing the development capacity of professional service industry in Higher Vocational schools", two construction projects in the first phase of the brand specialty construction plan of Jiangsu higher education institutions, and the products of Jiangsu higher education institutions Ten specialties with brand characteristics (including construction sites) and one specialty of "double certificate pilot" of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security. The school now has five national excellent courses, five high-quality courses in Jiangsu Province, three high-quality courses in the Higher Vocational and Vocational Education Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, and 10 high-quality textbooks in Jiangsu Province.

The school strives to build a team of teachers with noble ethics, advanced concepts, high teaching level, strong practical teaching ability, combination of specialty and part-time, and reasonable structure. There are 403 full-time teachers, of which 35% are teachers with senior professional titles, 74% are full-time teachers with master's degree or above, and 67.94% are "double teachers". There are 2 experts with special allowances from the State Council, 1 national excellent teaching team, 1 national famous teaching teacher, 2 excellent teaching team of Jiangsu universities, 2 famous teaching teachers of Jiangsu universities, 5 famous teaching teachers of Nantong City, 7 training objects of "333 Project" in Jiangsu Province, 11 training objects of "226 Project" in Nantong City, and 7 training objects of "Qinglan Project" in Jiangsu Province. In addition, the College employs more than 430 experts, engineers, technicians and skilled craftsmen from enterprises and institutions as part-time teachers to build a relatively stable team of part-time teachers composed of experts with practical experience in engineering and management outside the school, making it an indispensable force for the college to cultivate high-quality skilled talents.

The school carries forward Zhangjian's vocational education thought of "learning must be used in time" and "using must be suitable for the place", innovates the teaching idea of Higher Vocational education, constantly explores the talent training mode of combining work with learning, actively integrates and integrates the superior resources of teaching, scientific research and production with enterprises, and carries out the integration and integration of the superior resources in school-running direction, specialty setting, curriculum development, teacher training, laboratory and training base construction, and talents. All-round cooperation should be carried out in training and other fields. The school takes serving local economic and social development as its responsibility, vigorously promotes the integration of production, teaching and research, actively provides training services and technical services for the society, and achieves gratifying economic and social benefits. The school actively responds to the counterpart support action plan of the Ministry of Education and the call of Jiangsu Province to counterpart support the education in northern Jiangsu Province, and extensively cooperates with higher vocational colleges and vocational education centers in and outside Xinjiang and Gansu provinces. Adhering to the concept of open school-running, the school has formed a friendly school with Nanyang Polytechnic College of Singapore, accepted undergraduate students from Saxon University of the Netherlands to study in the school, and the scale of full-time foreign students has been expanding. Overseas experts and scholars have been invited to teach and lecture in the school all the year round. Teachers have been regularly selected to go abroad for training, so as to continuously enhance the level and influence of School-running in international cooperation and exchanges.

The school adheres to the concept of "student-oriented" education and carries out the quality education of "four in one" of ideological quality, humanistic quality, scientific quality and professional quality. The school actively carries out the construction of "Three Winds" and has formed a fine school style and style of study. Through the implementation of "credit system", "flexible education system", "double certificate system" for graduates and professional teachers'studios and other mechanisms, we can strengthen the cultivation of students' practical ability. The school takes employment as its purpose, actively carries out employment guidance and service work for college students, and continuously improves their employment ability, entrepreneurship and innovation ability. Over the years, the employment rate of school graduates has maintained a leading position in the province. For many consecutive years, it has been appraised as "the advanced collective of Jiangsu graduates'employment work", and in 2009 it has been appraised as "the advanced employment work of college graduates in the whole country". Collective ", in 2015 by the Ministry of Education as a typical experience of employment of college graduates in China.

Schools strive for survival with quality and development with characteristics. Vocational education has achieved remarkable results. They have successively won a series of honorary titles such as "National Advanced Vocational Education Unit", "National Advanced Textile Education Unit", "Jiangsu Civilization Unit", "Jiangsu Advanced Vocational Education Unit", "Jiangsu Advanced Ideological and Political Education Unit" and so on. Now it has become the chairman unit of China Textile and Garment Vocational Education Group, the chairman unit of Jiangsu Textile and Garment Vocational Education Group, the vice chairman unit of China Textile and Garment Education Association, and the standing director unit of China Higher Vocational Education Research Association.