Wuhan Polytechnic (WHPT) is a  public institution of higher vocational education (IHVE) founded in 1972 with  the approval of the Ministry of Education of China and directly sponsored by  the government of Hubei province. It is located in the centre of Optical  Valley, China's biggest photoelectron  information industry base in Wuhan, the capital city of central China's Hubei  Province. This geographic advantage provides WHPT with incomparable  opportunities and potentials in the development of higher vocational education.  WHPT has grown into one of the best IHVEs in Hubei province in terms of operational   condition and school-running strengths and standards, and set an example in the  regionalization, internationalization and modernization of higher vocational  education. These achievements make WHPT a well-known educational brand of Hubei  province in higher vocational education and an institution with significant  impacts on China’s higher vocational education.
               
WHPT has gained a large number of  awards and honors in the past years. It is a National Demonstrative IHVE, a  National Training Base for Urgently-needed Talents, a National Key Teacher   Training Base for Vocational Education and a National Advanced Institution of  Vocational Education. It is also assessed as a National Starred Demonstrative IHVE  in Employment, the national top 50 in employment quality in IHVEs, a National Institution  of Higher Education with Experienced Graduate Employment Services, and an Advanced   Institution in Graduate Employment Services in Hubei province. In addition, it  is rated as one of the most influential brands of Hubei province in the 60  years since the founding of PRC, one of the most influential institutions in  China in providing scientific and educational services in 2010, an Advanced Institution  in Providing Scientific and Technological Services for Hubei province, an Institution  of Higher Education with Good Fame, one of the Best Civilized Institutions in  Hubei province, and the top 10 of Hubei educational industry. It has also been appointed  such academic titles as the chairman institution of Hubei Association of Higher  Vocational Education and the vice-chairman institution of China Association of Higher  Vocational Education, Vocational Education Branch of China Electric Education Association,  Production-Learning-Research Education Branch of China Association of Higher  Education, Hubei Association of Higher Education, and Hubei Association of  Vocational Education.
               
The motto of WHPT is to stress  virtue, to devote to study, to aspire after truth and to blaze new trail. Its  school-running philosophy is to develop itself higher-vocational-education-orientedly,  to meet to the largest extent the demand of society for diversified higher  vocational education and that of students for knowledge, skills and employment,  to integrate education with production, education with scientific research and  theories with practice, and to be people-oriented in WHPT, teacher-focused in  school-running, student-centered in education and competence-based in talent  training. Its developmental roadmap is to integrate production, learning and   research with focuses on the provision of services for different stakeholders  and the facilitation of employment for students, and its developmental strategy  is to base itself on quality, to rejuvenate itself though features and to  reinvigorate itself via brand. All these constitute the unique characteristics  of WHPT in terms of school-enterprise cooperation, talent training mode,  teaching system, professional course reformation, educational quality management  and international cooperation.