Guangdong Institute of Textile Technology (GDITT), approved by the People¡¯s Government of Guangdong Province and directly supervised by the Ministry Education, is a full-time vocational institute. As the only comprehensive institute of textile and fashion in Guangdong, GDITT is an important training base for talents in the fields of textile and fashion. The institute is situated in the heart of the grand city of Foshan, and it provides a nice and pleasant campus for over 6,000 students coming from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Henan, and Shandong and so on.

The institute consists of eight departments and two sections, offering 33 specialties -- Textile Department, Department of Light-chemical Engineering, Fashion Department, Department of Art Design, Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, Economic Management Department, Applied Foreign Languages Department, Basic Courses Section, and Continuing Education Section.

The institute possesses a highly-capable faculty, an abundant network source of both full time and part-time domestic and overseas experts, of which 80% are professors or lecturers and 30% are ¡°dual-qualification¡± teachers with both academic and other practical knowledge. Now the institute has proposed a preferable policy --- ¡°Master¡¯s Degree or Doctor¡¯s Degree Project¡± --- in order to optimize the academic structure of its teachers. Besides, with all work computerized and programmed well, the institute has set up more than 60 well-equipped teaching laboratories including the Training Center for Fashion Design & Engineering, the Textile Training Center, the Textile Testing Center, the Textile & Chemistry Research Center, the Small-entrepreneur Development Center, the Prosper English Language Center and so on. A world-class knitting technique laboratory, which was co-established by the institute and German Mayer & Cie Company, is well used to train the knitting technicians for the society.  In addition, to further its educational reform, the institute is contacting with organizations in UK, Australia, Singapore, Germany, U.S. and Hong Kong for various forms of educational cooperation.

The institute has a well-defined approach of how to operate the institute. It attaches importance to the teaching research and courses construction, making great efforts to strengthen the cultivation of student¡¯s character and abilities. Many honors at national¡¢provincial and municipal levels have been given to the institute for its good performance, such as the course of ¡°Self-employment¡± was named as ¡°the National ¨C level College Excellent Course ¡± in 2004 and won the Second Prize in the provincial teaching Competition; In addition, the institute boasts three Provincial-level Model Specialties --- ¡°Modern Textile Technology¡± (2005), ¡°Dyeing & Finishing Technology¡± (2005) and ¡°Fashion Design¡± (2006). In 2007, the Fashion Design Training Base was established with the help of the government. Furthermore, the students have also achieved a lot in various national capability competitions, such as ¡°China Cup¡±, ¡®Teacher & Student Cup¡±, ¡°Challenge Cup¡± and so on.

The institute also attaches great importance to career guidance of its students. Education and all other works concerned revolve around career-oriented policy, such as adopting ¡°Dual-diplomas¡± evaluation system, encouraging students to become self-employed and so on. As a result, the student¡¯s employment rate has been continuously up to 99% in the past years, and even 99.9% in 2007, which was placed the top of all the universities in Guangdong Province and prized as one of the star institutes in the first National Vocational College Employment Competition.

Now with the encouragement and good policy from the government, the institute launches forth on a bigger program to turn the institute into a first-class vocational institute of China by construction of a new campus in Gaoming City.