Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics (ZJTIE) is a full-time public provincial vocational college previously known as Zhejiang Provincial Materials School established in 1978. In March 2000, Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics was planned for construction. It was approved officially in January 2002 by the people’s government of Zhejiang province to upgrade into a higher vocational college. In July 2017, approved by the people’s government of Zhejiang province, it was included into Zhejiang Machinery and Electrical Group and Zhejiang Vocational Education Group was established. 

Adhering to the schooling philosophy of “Morality as Orientation, Practice as Foundation, Excellence as Pursuit, Optimization as Aim”, sticking to the socialist education orientation and the fundamental task of cultivating talents, and responding to the new education demand of supply chain integrated service industry against the intelligent business background, ZJTIE is dedicated to the development road of profession, specialization and high altitude to build the school a supply chain industry institute of full value, full-system integration and high level.

ZJTIE has 9 secondary schools which are the Logistics and Supply Chain Management School, Automobile Technology School, Digital Information Technology School, Business Administration School, Commerce Circulation School, Finance and Accounting School, Culture and Art School, Dream and Entrepreneurship School, Marxism School, and a Further Education School. ZJTIE has more than 30 majors including logistics management, customs declaration and international freight, e-commerce, and financial management, etc. And three undergraduate majors in logistics management, e-commerce, and automotive maintenance engineering education were jointly established with Zhejiang Gongshang University and Zhejiang Normal University. ZJTIE has more than 10400 full-time students, including more than 500 undergraduates.

ZJTIE is one of the first-batch Excellent National Backbone Vocational Colleges. It is listed among the first-batch pilot four-year vocational colleges for talents cultivation. ZJTIE boasts strong industry background and is supported by industry leading groups that it has close industry and teaching cooperation with Zhejiang Materials Industry Group Corporation (ZJMI), Lenovo Group, Geely Group, etc. In 2016, the SASAC Party School of Zhejiang Province was established in ZJTIE and it has become the training base for party members and cadres from the state-owned companies of the entire province. In 2019, ZJTIE was selected as a national high-level professional group construction unit for higher vocational education.

Being a UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre, ZJTIE has taken part in multilateral negotiation on UNESCO vocational education policy framework, has hosted or participated international leading vocational education research programs funded by UNESCO, and has undertaken international vocational education forums and high-level international education and training expert seminars. It has many projects including UNESCO Chinese Higher Vocational Education Joint Reform Plan Higher Vocational Education Teacher Education and Training. As one of the first-batch “Zhejiang International Characteristic Higher Education Institutes”, it attaches great importance to cooperation with international superior vocational education resources that it has conducted cooperative teaching with quality institutions from the U.K. and Singapore, it has recruited international students to study in ZJTIE. It has set up “ZJTIE-CIEDI International Education Center” in Cambodia, and initiated to establish the The Belt & Road Alliance for International Applied Education and Training in which it takes the post of the General Secretary. In 2022, the ZJTIE Silk Road College in Malaysia was selected as one of the first batch of Silk Road Colleges in Zhejiang Province.

ZJTIE has vigorously promoted cultural quality education, and attached great importance to cultivating smart harmonious professional workers adaptive to the new demands of globalized and intelligent era, with coordinated development of professional ability, universal ability and high quality, and making good use of intelligent technologies. Over recent ten years, the enrollment score of ZJTIE has ranked among the first of similar higher vocational education colleges in Zhejiang province, and the employment rate has been kept over 98%.