Introduction

Founded in 1990, College of Textiles and Clothing(CTC) now includesthree

departments, i.e., Textile Engineering, Light-chemical Engineering,FashionDesign & Engineering, and one experimental center. Currently, the college consists of 41 faculty and staff members, including 4 full professors and 14 associate professors. Now, 95% of our faculty members have obtained master degrees. Among them there are 18 Ph.D. (including Ph.D. Candidates). There are over 1100 full-timeundergraduates.

The college focuses on teaching, aims to cultivate the applied talents and attaches great importance to fostering the students’ practical competence. Teaching standardized management is strengthened and teaching quality is continuously improved. So far, college has won one third prize ofChinaNational Textile and Apparel Council for Education and Teaching Achievement. More than ten provincial and college projects in teaching and education reform have been undertaken, and more than forty teaching research papers have been published in recent years. College has gained several awards such as teaching and studying style construction prize, graduate design (paper) prize and so on.

College pays much attention to do scientific research and serve local economy. In the past 5 years, teachers have undertaken 22 researchprojectsat the national, provincial, and municipal levels and published 350 research papers including 38 SCI/EI papers and over 180 national core journal papers. Colleges positively carries out the industrial-academic research cooperation and has undertaken numerouslatitudinalresearch projects from textile and costume enterprises. The research project on the development of the textile and garment industry was carried out for Yancheng government.

College always sticks to the work ethic of "All for Students' Development” and “for All Students' Development”. The higher quality talents withcreativeability and pioneer spirit is trained by establishing a good learning style, standardizing management and constructing innovation practice platform. The

college graduates, with pragmatic work style, perfect professional knowledge and good professional ethic, are wellappreciatedby their employers. In recent years, the first employment rate of graduates has remained at more than 98%.