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Tianjin Maritime College（‘TMC’） is a full-time state-run higher vocational school under direct administration of Tianjin Municipal Education Commission. The origin of the school dates back to 1962, when the school was known as Tianjin Further Education College of Science and Technology (‘Tianjin Labor Science and Technology College’). In 2006, approved by Tianjin Municipal Government and filed with the Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China, this school was reformed and then known as ‘Tianjin Maritime College’, under the administration of Tianjin Science and Technology Association. In 2017, Tianjin Municipal Education Commission became the supervisory organization to TMC.

Tianjin Maritime College is located in Tianjin Haihe Educational Park, a national Vocational Education Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone. It covers an area of 976 mu (about 650 666㎡), first phase of structure area being 176,000㎡.
The college is a Demonstrative Higher Vocational College in Tianjin, a national teaching standard setting unit for International Cruise Service and Management major, a teaching cooperation center unit for International Cruise Service and Management major of the Navigation Professional Steering Committee of the National Association of Transportation Vocational Education; besides, it is also the leading college of China Alliance of Cruise Talent Education and Training, Cruise and Yacht Collaborative Innovation Center in Tianjin, Tianjin Non-Destructive Testing Vocational Education Alliance, and of the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Cruise Talent Development Center.

Generously supported by the national and Tianjin government, the college has achieved significant progress in teaching, research, social services, major construction, talent cultivation and other aspects. Now, the college has been known as the training base in Tianjin of fostering highly skilled talent, training base of highly-skilled and urgently needed marine transportation personnel in Binhai New District, and cradle of international cruise service talents with high-quality.

In the future, TMC will, in accordance with China’s ‘The Belt and Road’ proposal, strategies of ‘Beijing Tianjin Hebei Collaborative Development’ and ‘Ocean Power’, further comply with national, regional, and industry development needs, adhere to the moral education as a fundamental mission, stick to the college-running principle of the Combination of Employment and Studying, Three Certificates, Paramilitary Management, Etiquette Education, and comprehensibly improve its overall school running abilities, society serving skills, and internationalized school running capability. TMC is resolved to build a training base for top-notch marine transportation talent armed with skills and techniques, top shipping industry development service base, and first class international cooperation education base. The college will also intensify the efforts to provide high-quality technical and skilled personnel with international vision, loyalty to the home country, ocean awareness, social responsibilities, innovative spirit, and practical skills. TMC is striving for its position in the world advanced vocational colleges with distinctive features.