Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology (JTUT) was brought into existence as Changzhou Teachers College of Technology in 1984. It is the only one university in Jiangsu province independently established to train teachers for vocational education. It is one of the first-batch National Key Vocational Education Construction Bases of Teacher Training approved by the Ministry of Education. It successfully passed the Ministerial Qualified Assessment of Regular College Program Teaching Work in 2001.

Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology is situated in Changzhou, the central region of the Yangtze River Delta, and a renowned historical and cultural city in Jiangsu Province.

The city, historically important in its politics, economy, culture and academic studies, is widely known for its talented personalities and abundant natural resources.

In its history, it was known as an “important and strategic city among Wujun, Wuxing and Huiji,” a “cultural ancient city with richest Confucian traditions in the adjacent eight counties”. Gong Zizhen, a distinguished scholar in the Qing Dynasty once wrote “Great names can be found here, there, and everywhere, /But no place in the Southeast can with Changzhou compare.” Its long history, cultural richness and education-focused tradition provide the university with an ideal environment.

Honored as Jiangsu Provincial Garden Unit, the modern university campus has elegant environment, impressive building and picturesque scenery, which is full of unique humanistic atmosphere and charming beauty indigenous to the water country in south of the Yangtze River. And all these provide unique environment for those in pursuit of knowledge and truth.

JTUT owns 12 secondary schools, 2 institutes and 1department, including School of Mechanical & Automobile Engineering, School of Electricity & Information Engineering, School of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, School of Economics & Management, School of Art & Design, School of Foreign Languages, School of Pedagogy, School of Humanities & social Sciences, School of Mathematics & Physics, Sino-German International Institute, Institute of Finance & Economics, Dongfang School (a state-owned nongovernmental school), School for Continuing Education, and Department of Physical Education. It covers 7 academic disciplines, that is, engineering, education, science, literature, management, economics and law, including 30 undergraduate majors. It boasts of 2 provincial key construction disciplines, 1 provincial feature specialty, 1 provincial brand construction specialty, 2 provincial feature construction specialties, 1 provincial key construction laboratory, 1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center, 2 provincial experimental teaching demonstration construction centers and 9 provincial brand courses.。

JTUT now has 12,762 full-time students, and 1,134 staff members among which are 765 teachers, with 284 holders of high-ranking titles (including 65 full professors) and 61 doctors and 348 masters.

JTUT has a collection of 1,164.3 thousand volumes of books and 1,527.4 thousand volumes of e-books and 24 kinds of databases in addition to its own databases characterized by fine arts, art design and policies & regulations on education.

It has constructed a campus web with a velocity of 1Gbps to the building and 100Mbps to the desktop and with over 5,600 hot links as well, setting up the e-learning by introducing 285 national brand courses and designing more than 250 web courses, and has created and practiced 2 comprehensive systems for academic affairs management and teaching assessment respectively. JSTU owns a total area of playground covering 83,275.29 square meters including a floor space of 8,063.49 square meters and is well-equipped with facilities for physical education and training.

Abiding by the principle of scientific development, JTUT insists on maintaining development as the absolute commitment by the performance of the three strategies of “Development on Quality, Consolidation by Human Resources, Prosperity with Uniqueness”.

Oriented by market demand for special talents, the University regards talents cultivation as the fundamental work and student construction as the central task. It adheres to the ideology that “the university owns its unique features, all specialties possess their distinguished particularities, and each student displays his/her own strong points” as competitive advantages so as to improve education quality profoundly. JTUT mainly centers on teacher education while actively exploring non - teacher education.

Undergraduate education is its predominant education pattern while postgraduate education is going to establish. Till now, a new disciplinary system of both liberal arts and natural science concentrating on engineering and education has been established in JTUT, including disciplines as engineering, education, natural science, liberal arts, economics, management and law.

Then on the basis of “Consolidation, Deepening, Improvement and Development” and for target to improve education quality and to make profit, the University gives priority to discipline construction and attaches importance to teaching force construction to realize its fulfillment of improvement of education quality and benefit the society.

In order to meet the demand of national vocational education and serves to social & economic development, JTUT actively probes into education theories for higher vocational teachers schools. It keeps on enforcing teaching construction, deepening education reform, innovating talent cultivation mode and perfecting teaching management system & teaching quality supervision system by means of promotion of score system, flexible credit system, module course system, classified teaching and graduate research project system etc. The “three- certificate system” (the diploma, the technology certificate, and the teacher’s certificate required for a student to graduate.) forms the harmonious unity of “academy, technology and teaching ability”.

Another uniqueness of the university is to cultivate “double-skilled teachers”, who can be teachers in classroom and technicians in workshop. Because of outstanding teaching ability, advantageous professional practice skills and excellent quality in career creation & innovation, graduates of our school are warmly welcomed by employment units and “Employment Rate at One Tim” has remained more than 96% for consecutive years.

As far as we are informed, many graduates have grown to be leaders & backbone forces of vocational schools and elites of different fields. Till now, JSTU has developed more than 16000 graduates and made great contribution to local economic construction and social development.