Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College (YWICC), located in the world famous trade city- Yiwu, grew out of Hangzhou University-Yiwu founded in 1993. The campus covers an area of over 160 acres and boasts a building floorage of 239,000 square meters. It is a beautiful garden-like campus with its picturesque natural scenery and unique architectures. The enrollment of Chinese and international students reaches around 9,600 at present.

The college provides education in a wide range of subjects in 9 schools, namely School of Culture & Tourism, School of Mechatronics & IT, School of Economics & Management, School of Foreign Studies, School of Architectural & Civil Engineering, School of Creative Studies, School of Business Starting, School of International Education, School of Adult Education and Department of Public Courses, with the number of 3-year academic programs reaching 29. In addition, other education programs such as Zhejiang Normal University MBA education and Zhejiang University distance education are also available in YWICC. The college boasts a group of 458 devoted faculty members, 137 of them with senior professional titles, 17 with PhD degrees and 335 with master’s degrees. 15 of them have been awarded provincial honors like teaching masters, promising young teacher and young and middle-aged academic pacemaker. Other teaching achievements and awards of the college include: 2 National Teaching Achievements Awards, 2 National Quality Courses, 2 specialties supported by central government’s finance, 4 provincial characteristic specialties, 13 provincial quality courses, 2 projects of training base construction supported by central government’s finance, 2 provincial model training bases, 4 Provincial College Teaching Achievements Awards.

Relying on the advantages and demand of Yiwu markets, YWICC has opened up a distinctive way of development on the basis of “pioneering spirit”, shaping its own major educational characteristics among peers in China’s higher learning: Entrepreneurship Education, Originality Education and International Education. Outstanding achievements have been made regarding cultivating entrepreneurial and innovative talents, serving local economy.

YWICC has set up Pioneer Park, Business Starting School and E-commerce School within the campus, which provide students with accessible platform to carry out their entrepreneurship programs by the establishments of various types of E-commerce classes such as Taobao, DH-gate, Ebay etc. According to incomplete statistics, 95% of the college students have part-time job experiences, with an annual total of students’ earning exceeding 28 million yuan (around USD 4.2 million). Over 1,800 students have started their own business, with a yearly revenue of more than 35 million yuan (around USD 5.2 million). It is not rare to see some of YWICC students become millionaires before graduation. Over 98% of the students are employed in one way or another around the time they graduate in successive years, meanwhile, the entrepreneurship rate of YWICC has topped all the universities and colleges in the province in recent years. As a result of the outstanding achievement of E-businessmen training and teaching, the college is accredited as “Best Cradle for E-businessmen in the world” and “Pilot Entrepreneurial University/College of Zhejiang”.

Yiwu Innovation Park inside the campus is a creative culture park which is the first one in China to take “commodity innovative design” as its basis for products research and development. The creative output value adds up to 330 million yuan (around USD 49.3 million), driving a production value of 4.9 billion yuan (around USD 731 million). The park has offered Yiwu markets thousands of innovatively designed products, providing service to over 3,000 manufactures annually on average. Over 100 powerful and experienced design institutions and technology companies have been attracted to the park. An effective practice platform for creative design students has been built jointly with other 100 famous universities and colleges. Xinwen Lianbo, China Central Television’s daily news broadcast at 7 pm. reported the achievement of YWICC’s Innovative Culture as the lead story on May, 5th, 2010. At the same year, innovative culture of the college won the “National College Campus Culture Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Ministry of Education.

Since its first enrollment of international students in 2007, YWICC has trained more than 5,000 international students from over 70 countries of 5 continents, the number of international students ranked 1st among all the vocational colleges in the province. A variety of activities are offered to international students. For example, they are invited to participate in large-scale theatrical performances like the Dream Trip in Zhejiang every year. The number of international students winning Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship for International Students has witnessed a steady increase. In 2011, YWICC became the first college which is qualified to organize HSK, BCT and YCT.

The characteristic schooling of the college based on regional economic development and Yiwu markets has aroused extensive attention and been reported by major media at home and abroad such as Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, the People’s Daily, New York Times, and Reuters. Adhering to the motto of “Virtue, Wisdom, Diligence and Independence”, YWICC is striding forward towards the great goal of entrepreneurial university and national first-rate characteristic vocational college.