Nantong Textile Vocational Technology College（NTVTC） is a state-run full-time vocational study college managed on behalf of the Jiangsu Provincial Government. It has become a showcase construction unit of the State Model Vocational College Project. Its history can be traced back to the first textile school in China as far back as 1912. It was established by Mr. Zhang Jian, the famous patriotic industrialist and educationist. NTVTC has established a profound cultural accumulation with nearly one hundred years of training large numbers of excellent graduates for the economic, social, construction and development of Jiangsu province, as well as the whole of China.

Located in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, NTVTC enjoys the convenience of quick and easy transportation within the one-hour-economic-zone of Shanghai. NTVTC has a land area of 720 mu (one mu equals to 666.67 square meters), with total floor space of 202,400 square meters. The students at NTVTC can take advantage of emerging technology, modern scientific teaching methods and contemporary teaching methodologies. The NTVTC library also is in tune with the goal of informatization and digitalization.

Besides having established so far 48 training workshops, NTVTC has: A Modern Textile Technology Training Base, funded by China’s Central Financial Ministry；A Textile Designer’s Professional Qualification Training Center funded at state level；A Home-textile and Costume Engineering Technology Research Center funded at provincial level；A Provincial Model Training Base；A Local Municipal Costume Technology Innovation Center；A Provincial Model Teaching Center for Basic-course-experiments;  and A State Vocational Skill Appraisal Office.

NTVTC is a comprehensive higher education institute with over 10,000 full-time students and embracing cutting edge engineering science as its main focus. It has 11 departments which include Textile, Dying and Finishing, Electrical Machines, Information & Technology, Arts, Fashion, Foreign Languages, Construction, Social Science, P.E. & Military Affairs. NTVTC also has 3 sub-colleges such as Further Education School, NTVTC-Kangan TAFE and School of International Cooperation. Kangan TAFE is a Sino-Australian project between NTVTC and the Australian Kangan Institute of TAFE based in Melbourne, Victoria. Of all 52 majors offered at NTVTC, including; Modern Textile Technology, Home-Textile Design, Dying Technologies, Electric-Mechanic Integration, E-commerce, Construction Engineering, the traditional majors have their established brand features and the newly-launched majors are closely related to emerging social demands.

NTVTC endeavors to maintain a structured team with an integration of part-time and full-time teaching staff, who practice good teaching ethics, advanced teaching philosophies, and practical and professional teaching skills. In addition to the 210 part-time teachers, NTVTC has 466 full-time teachers, among whom, 33% have got senior professional titles, and over 75% of the professional teachers hold ‘Double-qualification Certificates’. Also 78% of the younger teaching staff has achieved at least a master’s degree qualification. Furthermore, NTVTC invites part-time professors from the academicians of China’s Engineering Academy, and experts and renowned teachers from other famous universities to lecture at the college.

Adhering to the concept of transparency, NTVTC has early established a sub-college NTVTC-KBT as a Sino-Australian cooperation project. It has also set up a partnership with Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. NTVTC regularly invites foreign experts and scholars to give lectures in the college, and also sends teachers abroad for further training and education. As a result of this international exchange, NTVTC has further demonstrated its  management ability and influence.