The School of Road and Bridge Engineering was founded in 1958 and has accumulated 67 years of educational experience, producing over 66,000 graduates. Recognized as the "Cradle of Road and Bridge Talents in Guangxi," the school has trained more than 60% of the professionals in Guangxi's transportation infrastructure industry. In order to adapt to major national strategies such as building a strong transportation sector and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, the school, by carrying forward the spirit of “cutting paths through mountains and building bridges across rivers”, and creating the Party-Building brands with rich connotations featuring “a guide” and “a paving stone”, and shaping the professional cultural brand of "Hongtu" with the characteristics of Guangxi's "Hometown of Arch Bridges". These efforts have nurtured a generation of highly skilled and ethical transportation professionals, making significant contributions to Guangxi's transportation sector and socio-economic development.

The school offers ten majors, including Road and Bridge Engineering Technology, Port and Waterway Engineering Technology, Railway Engineering Technology, Intelligent Transportation Technology, Road Transportation Management, Urban Rail Transit Engineering Technology, Road Engineering Cost, Road Engineering Detection Technology, Civil Engineering Detection Technology, and Intelligent Construction Technology, etc.

A high-level professional group for Road and Bridge Engineering Technology has been established. The core major is Road and Bridge Engineering Technology, and the backbone majors are Port and Waterway Engineering Technology and Railway Engineering Technology. These majors are aligned with the integration of construction, management, and maintenance in the "highway, waterway, and railway" sectors, as well as the application trend of new materials. The supporting majors, Intelligent Transportation Technology and Road Transportation Management, are aligned with the trends of multimodal transport and digital transformation. This professional group has been recognized as a national backbone program and a demonstration program by the Ministry of Transport. It achieved an excellent rating in the Guangxi Double High-level Program acceptance and was selected as a Class A construction unit in the second round of high-level professional group development. The school has earned 23 national honors, including the first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, national online quality courses, demonstration courses for ideological and political education integration and textbook construction awards. In multiple third-party evaluation reports, the core majors consistently rank among the top five in similar majors in national higher vocational colleges.

Abundant achievements in educational and teaching reform

The school is currently one of the first comprehensive reform demonstration departments for "three comprehensive education" in Guangxi universities. It boasts one national level vocational education teacher innovation team and one national level curriculum ideological and political teaching team, and is one of the first pilot units for modern apprenticeship talent cultivation by the Ministry of Education. Road and Bridge Engineering Technology, the core major of the school,has maintained the first place in scale among counterparts in Guangxi for 20 consecutive years, and ranks first in technology application services, ranking among the top in the country.

In 2019, it was awarded the first round of high-level professional group in Guangxi and passed the acceptance with an "excellent" rating in 2022. According to the 2024 Golden Apple "China’s Vocational College Professional Competitiveness Ranking", it ranked 5th out of 191 colleges in the country that offer similar majors (in the top 3% of the country).

The school creates a modern apprenticeship education model of "unit grouping, professional clustering, and diversified training", based on its status as one of the first batch of modern apprenticeship pilot programs nationwide, and on its status as a director unit of Guangxi Transport Vocational Education Group, and. It has won the first prize of the National Vocational Education Teaching Achievement Award in 2022 (the only vocational college in Guangxi), and its education-related cases have been included in the "2021-2022 Typical 100 Cases of Industry Education Integration and School Enterprise Cooperation" compiled by the China Education Development Strategy Association.

Based on the characteristics of karst in the southwestern region of China, the school jointly builds with companies the "campus teaching workshop", the largest of its kind in China, the "virtual simulation teaching workshop" which is a national demonstration virtual simulation base cultivation project, and the "enterprise teaching workshop" which is based in Guangxi Pingnan Third Bridge, the No. 1 span arch bridge in the world , etc. These workshops are open to 133 units and benefit an average of 18000 people per year. They have been highly recognized by the leadership of the Ministry of Education and have won the second prize of national teaching achievements.

Outstanding achievements in scientific research and social services

The school has built four core scientific research platforms of four sectors, namely, sea-based economy, new international land-sea trade corridor, green transport, and safe transport. It has been awarded three autonomous region level engineering centers, six municipal level engineering technology centers, and built the only engineering center in China in the sub-field of underwater rock breaking. It has made technological breakthroughs in hydraulic column rock breaking, underwater blasting bubble curtain protection, etc., that have filled in the blank at home and abroad and led the global development of the technology, and such have been used in infrastructure construction projects in countries along the "Belt and Road Initiative", such as Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, achieving good results.

In the past three years, the school has won 9 Guangxi Science and Technology Awards, 37 national invention patents, and other achievements. It has participated in the formulation of 21 local and industry standards, and has applied more than 20 technological breakthroughs and service achievements in projects such as the Pinglu Canal, the Duba Expressway, and the Guinan High Speed Railway, generating nearly 200 million yuan in economic benefits.

The school has deeply promoted the integration of industry and education, jointly established academician work points and postdoctoral innovation practice bases between schools and enterprises. In the past five years, it has introduced 10 doctoral students, ranking among the top in the national transportation industry in terms of the number of teachers with senior professional titles and advanced degrees. With a large number of high-level talents in the field of transportation and civil engineering, led by teaching masters, skill masters, model workers, and craftsmen, it has successfully been selected as a typical case for the construction of the "dual qualification" teacher team in vocational colleges nationwide, a training base for "dual qualification" teachers in Guangxi vocational education, and a national innovation team for vocational education teaching.

In the past three years, the school has won one second prize in the National Vocational College Teaching Ability Competition and five first prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels; the second prize in national textbook construction, national curriculum ideological and political demonstration course and teaching team, and it also edited 3 national "14th Five Year Plan" textbooks, 3 online high-quality courses on the national level.

The quality of talent cultivation continues to rise

The employment rate of graduates of the school has been over 95% for consecutive years, with an average monthly salary of over 5500 yuan. More than 30% of students are admitted to undergraduate universities for further education each year. More than 90% of graduates are employed by large state-owned enterprises in the transportation industry, such as Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group Co., Ltd and Guangxi Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd, as well as transportation management agencies in various cities. Zhao Junzhi, a graduate of 2015, and Huang wenhua,a graduate of 2016,won the National Award for Excellence in Grassroots Employment of College Graduates, and 143 graduates won honors such as the Li Chun Award (Highway Traffic Quality Project Award), the Quality Award of the Chairman of the Autonomous Region, and the model worker of the National Transportation System. The high employment rate has become a very good reputation of the school by word of mouth.

In the past three years, students individually have won 7 awards in national level skills competitions (including innovation competitions, career planning competitions, Challenge Cups, etc.) and 159 in provincial and ministerial level competitions. The student teams have won the TOP100 Award of the Vitality Youth League Branches in China and the National Key Team for Social Practice, etc. The quality of talent cultivation has been continuously improving and highly recognized by the industry.

The effects of international exchanges and cooperation are remarkable

In recent years, the school has initiated international exchanges and cooperation with the National University of Technology of Indonesia. In November 2017, a Letter of Intent was signed between the two institutions to jointly establish the "Belt and Road" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Base and the "Belt and Road" Transportation Infrastructure Training Base. Leveraging these platforms, the school has consistently provided technical training and certification programs in civil engineering for local Indonesian technicians and students, enhancing their professional competencies. In 2021, the college successfully applied for three projects, including the "China-Indonesia Belt and Road Transportation Infrastructure Vocational Education and Training Program," which received funding approval from the Department of Education of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. These initiatives have further strengthened the school's role in fostering international collaboration and capacity building in transportation infrastructure.

In October 2024, GTVTC jointly signed a quadripartite cooperation agreement with China Metallurgical South Urban Environmental Protection Indonesia Company of China Minmetals Corporation, Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group Co., Ltd., and the Indonesian National Institute of Technology. This aims to cultivate highly skilled talents that meet the requirements of both China and Indonesia for the construction of transportation infrastructure in the two countries.