Foshan Vocational and Technical College was officially established in June 2000. It is a full-time public higher vocational and technical college directly under the Foshan Municipal Government。After years of construction and development, the university has become a model higher vocational college construction unit in Guangdong Province and a first-class higher vocational college construction unit in Guangdong Province。The school is now the headquarters unit of Foshan Vocational and Technical Education Base, the chairman unit of Foshan Vocational Education School-Enterprise Cooperation Alliance, the school-enterprise cooperative cooperation Alliance of the park, and the leading unit of Foshan Vocational Education Association。There are nearly 10,000 full-time students in the school。The university is located in the hinterland of Sanshui National Industrial Park, with a total area of 962 mu and a building area of 23.50,000 square meters, total government investment 11.800 million yuan, the average student teaching equipment value reached 20,000 yuan。There are 3 central financial support training bases, 6 provincial training bases, 2 provincial public training centers, 9 provincial off-campus practice teaching bases, 24 on-campus training bases (training centers), and 235 off-campus practice training bases。

The university has set up 10 scientific research institutions and 18 scientific research and innovation teams, established Foshan Intellectual Property Training Base, and won the first batch of intellectual property standard implementation projects in Guangdong Province, and students have obtained 394 patents。According to the public information of the State Intellectual Property Office, as of June 30, 2019, the number of authorized invention patents of the university ranked 29th in the national higher vocational colleges。The school innovates the "three relying, three coordinating, three precision" social service model, and assigns a number of professional backbone teachers to settle in the park enterprises every year, to overcome the technical difficulties of enterprises, and the annual technical service exceeds 10 million yuan。In the past three years, the university's scientific research funding and investment rank among the top 5 higher vocational colleges in Guangdong Province;In 2017, our university ranked 14th in the per capita scientific research funding of vocational colleges in China and 11th in the A class of innovative Strong schools of vocational colleges in Guangdong Province。The university undertakes 12 provincial and municipal scientific research and innovation platforms, has become the registration point of the Sanshui District technology contract and the service institution of science and technology innovation service voucher issued by the Science and Technology Department of Guangdong Province, builds the transformation platform of scientific and technological achievements of the university, and promotes the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements。In the national invention exhibition has repeatedly won the award of 4 silver and 2 bronze in 2017, 1 silver and 5 bronze in 2018, 3 silver and 4 bronze in 2019。Focus on the key common technologies of local key industries，Conduct research and development services，Established Sanshui Industrial Park Doctor service station，Won the doctoral workstation project of Guangdong Province;The university and Heilongjiang Energy Vocational and Technical College jointly build double Buddha green food research and development center and doctor workstation;Academicians Yu Mengsun and Wu Kaiming were hired as the chief experts of academician workstation，We will build high-end research and development institutions such as academician and expert workstations of Great Health intelligent equipment，Leading the school's scientific and technological innovation towards high-quality and high-level development。