The School of Food and Pharmacy at Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University responds to the State Council's Healthy China 2030 strategy, focusing on the three leading industries in Shanghai, seizing the golden opportunity period of rapid development in the biopharmaceutical, food safety, and precision nutrition industries, and laying out undergraduate vocational education majors in food quality and safety, food nutrition and health, synthetic biotechnology, and drug quality management, providing strong intellectual and talent support for the development of Shanghai's biopharmaceutical and big health industry clusters, and creating a highland of composite innovative high-quality technical and skilled talents. The School of Food and Pharmacy is an executive member unit of the National Biotechnology Industry Education Integration Community and a member unit of the Shanghai Lingang New Area Life Blue Bay Industry Education Alliance. We have a Shanghai level industry education integration major, a modern apprenticeship pilot major, a Ministry of Education 1+x certificate pilot major, and an innovation and entrepreneurship pilot major.

           The academy gathers renowned teachers and scholars. Adhering closely to the high-end industries of medicine and health, we have formed a high-quality team of young and middle-aged dual  teachers composed of well-known experts, skilled masters, professors, PhDs, and high-level talents at home and abroad. We aim to cultivate technical and skilled talents with precision, and continuously promote the quality of education to a new level. There are currently 88 faculty members, including 54 full-time teachers, 21 with associate senior professional titles or above, 23 with doctoral degrees, and many highly skilled talents such as Western pastry chefs, senior technicians, senior food inspectors, public nutritionists, and registered nutritionists. The proportion of dual teachers has reached 75%. We have 3 provincial-level famous teachers, outstanding young talents, and leading figures, 2 scholars from the Shanghai Recruitment and Accumulation Plan, 1 Shanghai Talent Cultivation Award, 1 Chief Technician from Jinshan District, 6 Shanghai Morning Light Scholars, 1 member of the Professional Teaching Guidance Committee of the National Food Industry Vocational Education Teaching Guidance Committee, and 1 member of the Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Special Committee of the National Biotechnology Vocational Education Teaching Guidance Committee. At the same time, more than 40 well-known experts from related industries and enterprises were hired to form a professional construction guidance committee and a part-time teaching team.

            The college has established a Shanghai quality course and resource library, 12 school level golden courses, and 13 publicly published textbooks edited and co-edited. The food and Drug Comprehensive Training Center covers an area of 6250 square meters and has been approved as a Shanghai level Food and Pharmacy Comprehensive Training Center, a Shanghai demonstration virtual simulation training base, and a Shanghai agricultural product food inspector skill appraisal station. We have training and teaching facilities including gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, high-performance liquid chromatography and other high-end instruments and equipment, as well as laboratories. Currently, we have more than 30 large laboratory rooms and several auxiliary experimental preparation rooms for teaching, such as pharmaceutical technology laboratory, food technology laboratory, baking and beverage laboratory, nutrition catering and sensory evaluation laboratory, food nutrition simulation laboratory, pathogenic bacteria testing sterile room, atomic absorption/fluorescence laboratory, GC-MS laboratory, high-performance liquid chromatography laboratory, as well as one pilot production line for baked goods processing.

        The college adheres to the scientific research orientation of integration of production, teaching, research and application. At the 2024 China CEEC Vocational College Industry Education Alliance Conference, the food quality and safety professional committee led by our college was officially established to provide support for international cooperation under the the Belt and Road initiative. This is the first and only professional committee of the alliance focusing on the food industry at present. The college has jointly established a production practice center for the integration of biopharmaceutical industry and education with leading enterprises in industries such as Jinshan Bay Area Biomedical Port, Qingsai Biotechnology, Hengrun Dasheng, Kailaiying Pharmaceutical, Meiji Biotechnology, Dishi Biotechnology, and Nanmo Biotechnology. We have established research platforms such as the Innovation Center for the Integration of Biomaterials and Biopharmaceuticals Industry and Education, and the Engineering Research Center for Food Additives. We have made a series of important original progress in the development of fields such as drug food homology, biomaterials, food additives, and precision nutrition. There are middle and high skill appraisal stations for agricultural and food inspectors under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, as well as a senior technician appraisal station for drug inspectors under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, providing an average of 2000 social training and appraisals annually.

          Based on the innovation and entrepreneurship college and undergraduate mentorship system, a large number of outstanding students with high comprehensive quality and strong scientific and technological innovation ability have been cultivated. In recent five years, it has won four national awards, five Shanghai municipal gold awards, and more than 80 silver and bronze awards in China International University Student Innovation Competition, Internet plus, Challenge Cup and other innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. The World Vocational College Skills Competition has won one third prize at the national level, over 20 vocational skills awards at the Shanghai municipal level, two gold medals in the national finals, and two gold medals in the International Genetic Engineering Competition. The employment rate of graduates exceeds 98.9%, and the salary level ranks among the top in similar majors nationwide, which is highly welcomed by employers.(Data updated on December 30th,2024)