Posted on Sep.16, 2026 by Dong Quanyue|Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management
The college has made coordinated arrangements and launched systematic orientation activities in accordance with the Freshman Orientation Manual, laying a solid foundation for their college journey.
The orientation covers more than ten core modules including ideal and belief education, college history and culture, campus adaptation, code of conduct, integrity education, major cognition, safety protection, mental health, traditional culture, student financial aid policies and first-aid training. It builds a comprehensive education system featuring ideological guidance, professional enlightenment, literacy cultivation and safety support, guiding freshmen to develop a correct outlook on the world, life and values and buckle the first button of their growth.
Functional departments work together to deliver targeted education.
The Publicity Department organizes freshmen to visit the college exhibition hall. Student interpreters introduce the college’s history and philosophy to cultivate their sense of belonging and pride.
The Student Affairs Office runs a 14-day military training program integrating national defense education, discipline training and willpower building to foster patriotism.
Together with the Communist Youth League Committee and the School of Hospitality Management, it offers campus etiquette open classes. With on-site demonstrations and interactive scenarios, students learn proper postures, professional dressing codes and civilized conduct. Freshmen are encouraged to follow the college spirit and motto, contributing to building the most polite campus.
The Security Office holds emergency drills during military training, teaching evacuation and risk response skills to strengthen campus safety.
The College Clinic delivers hands-on first-aid training to improve freshmen’s self-protection capabilities.
Each school designs distinctive orientation activities based on its specialties.
The School of Hospitality Management integrates ideological guidance, professional enlightenment and etiquette training. It uses themed class meetings, upgraded courses, lectures from academic leaders and alumni, and volunteer civility supervisors to help freshmen explore career paths and refine manners.
Following the idea of education starts before entering the campus, the School of Culture and Tourism greets new students with all faculty members waiting at the lecture hall entrance, passing on humanistic warmth.
The School of Culinary Arts invites Shandong Craftsman-Zhang Guifeng as the freshman craft mentor. She shares her career experience, and the school holds an oath-taking ceremony led by world skills competition gold medalists to nurture craftsmanship and the aspiration to serve the nation with skills.
The School of Hotel Engineering hosts an orientation forum and moral tutor appointment ceremony, inviting national model craftsman Li Wenlong to set inspiring career examples for freshmen.
The School of Business Administration carries out activities around five themes: campus adaptation, value guidance, norm cultivation, career planning and physical & mental health. Activities include group communication, exhibition hall visits and red movie viewing to cultivate patriotism and school loyalty, together with etiquette lectures and student handbook training to reinforce discipline awareness. It also provides major cognition, career planning and mental health support to facilitate freshmen’s transition.
Centering on ideology, study, life, psychology and safety, the School of Accounting delivers education covering college history, first aid, disease prevention, academic planning, financial aid and traditional culture. Through opening lectures, themed meetings, one-on-one consultation, peer support and dormitory guidance, it links in-class and out-of-class education for freshmen.
The School of Information Engineering and Technology adopts lectures, class meetings, practical drills and online assessments to conduct full-coverage education on college history, safety, psychology, majors, financial aid and more, realizing immersive education.
Based on safety education, the School of Arts organizes sessions on ideals, college culture, etiquette and further study, helping freshmen settle into college life quickly.
This orientation program fulfills standard requirements while encouraging innovative practices tailored to each college’s strengths. Relevant thematic activities will continue to be rolled out.
The college will sustain the outcomes of orientation education. Ideological education, conduct training and career planning will be embedded in daily teaching. Freshmen will be encouraged to align personal pursuits with national development, embrace college life with high spirits and grow into high-caliber technical talents with both professional competence and moral integrity.
