Guangdong Overseas Chinese Vocational School

The Chinese Educational Base, a foreign-oriented public institution administrated by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Guangdong Province, is financed by Guangdong Overseas Chinese Vocational School and operated under the direction of the Provincial Education Department. It is the base for the Chinese Culture Transmission Centre-Chanwu Centre of the International Chanwu Union, the only technical secondary school which has the qualification for enrolling overseas students and the approved centre for several national and provincial level occupational skill tests. Founded in 1979, the school has always been dedicating herself to vocational education and Chinese education, upholding the tenet of “people oriented, service for overseas Chinese” and adhering to the school-running principle of “signing the school with distinction, invigorating the school with uniqueness”. Under the leadership of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Guangdong Province and with the support of the Overseas Exchange Association of Guangdong Province, the school has hosted many students and visitors from more than twenty countries of Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe, South America, Australia, and China’s Hongkong and Taiwan Districts. It also holds teachers’ classes, dancing classes, and summer and winter camps for overseas visitors. Guangdong Overseas Chinese Vocational School is a comprehensive language and culture school which is dedicated mainly to providing an education in the Chinese language and traditional Chinese culture for foreigners and Chinese from Hongkong, Macao and other overseas regions and to promoting cultural exchange and cooperation between China and other countries.

Our school has cooperated with International Chan Wu Federation in setting up the Chan Wu Center which considers the Chan Wu Spirit of “training the mind with Buddhism and training the body with martial art” as its tenet and focuses it attention in teaching and transmitting Chinese Chan Spirit and martial art culture. The Chan Wu Center invites the ex-monk in Chinese Songshan Shaolin Monastery to be the coach in this class. Our school has cooperated with South China Normal University,Ji’nan University and Sun Yat-Sen University in conducting classes, such as Chinese class in high grades, adult vocational education and Chinese teaching training class. The Universities and our school share resources, have complementary advantages and co-develop. We adhere to the tenet of “serving for the Overseas Chinese”. We have enhanced our educational degrees after we have a firm education foundation.

Experienced full-time teachers are ready to carry out teaching according to students’ different levels, personalities and potentialities. The school puts great emphasis on absorbing new education ideas and innovation. “Student Foremost” and “Learning with Fun” are actively promoted, which contribute a lot to developing students’ interest in study, their creative abilities and cooperative spirit. Technical skill training and teaching results are in the spot light. The base has 26 laboratories, more than 10 multimedia classrooms, language labs; and Chinese classes for overseas students are all equipped with multimedia devices.

We adhere to the principle of ‘people oriented and service supreme’ and the school motto of ‘learn widely, work perseveringly, act virtuously and live self-resignedly’. The campus carries out school discipline strictly and combines the administration and tutoring harmoniously. There are more than ten academic and cultural clubs for enriching students’ campus life. We hold variable academic and physical exercises and professional skill contests periodically. All these activities will help the students to develop decent behavior and construct positive and motivating atmosphere. These all are intended to help the students to find their own ways to behave, work, study and live their life.

Each semester, the school will arrange the students to take the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK), and a training program for the students will be provided before the test.

Facilities in students’ apartment include telephone, air-conditioner, bathroom, water heater, Water dispenser, Internet access, color TV, and washing machine, etc