Established in 2000, the College of Continuing Education of Hebei Polytechnic University is in charge of all kinds of adult education at various levels and all the students' self-study examinations of the university.

The college forges ahead to develop adult education under the guiding principles of running school: taking servicing the local economic construction as its center and depending on the advantages of average higher education of the university. Since 1970, when the first students entered the college, it had provided training programs as further study, short-term training, etc. From 1989 on, it has increasingly provided diploma training programs in the form of evening college, correspondence education, adult education released from work and so on, and have formed a pattern of multi-levels and all forms of adult education with 8000 students in it.

Now it has all levels of adult educational programs:

• Five-year Higher Vocational and Technical education
• Under-Graduate Course
• Junior Course Education starting from high school Level
• Undergraduate course from junior Level
• Vocational Diploma program
• Technical Training
• Certificate Program
• Adult Training for Nationwide College Entrance Examination

At the same time, it has brought the advantages of its specialties and the location into full play, explored the ways of running school actively and formed all patterns of running school, such as collegial and local corporation, corporation between college and enterprise. At present, the college has become a continuing education base of Tangshan , foreign language training center, CAD training center, the training base in manufacturing industry informationization of Hebei Province , and the training center in micro-soft computer. Also the college has brought the advantages of the function of its adult education base and the advantage of joint-running school, and bridged the relationship between the college and the society. Resent years, the college has developed more than 3,000 key qualified professionals for enterprises, promoted the application of new techniques and gained very good social reputation from all the societies. Now the college provides 58 specialties. It has formed a new pattern in running school with multiple levels, multiple subjects, multiple forms and multiple channels.

Relying on the advantages of average higher education, the college has actively carried out the teaching research in adult education, improved the teaching methods and means, strengthened the teaching management and formed its own teaching pattern and managing mechanism with its own bright features. So the teaching quality has being steadily improved. In the teaching, The College offers an individualized quality education and an individualized time education for every student. Facing to the need of the society, the college takes the pattern of ?°order?±, just like booking goods from a factory, in developing students for the society. At the same time, it pays attention to the education of comprehensive qualities of the students and their practical abilities. The college has already educated a large group of qualified graduates.

The college has got good reputations from all the worlds with its higher teaching quality, outstanding characteristics in running school and excellent social effects. Since the first day of the adult education of the college, it has successively educated up to 26,000 qualified graduates in all the fields for the society, who have formed a strong mainstay in the construction of the modern society. It has got many titles of honor one after another from the society: Top School in Adult Education Evaluation by Hebei Province , Advanced College in Adult Education Enrollment by Hebei Province , Advance Unit in Running School in Adult Education of Average Colleges and Universities by Hebei Province , and Advanced Unit in Comprehensive Reformation in Rural Education by Hebei Province , etc.

Today when Hebei Polytechnic University is developing quickly, all the teaching staff and the students of the college are full of vigor and spirit of going all out and devotion. They are actively exploring, bravely making innovations, adapting itself to the trend of mass education, exploring new ways for adult education, and serving the society for the college to step up a new stage in its educational work and contribute more to make the university become the first class.