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Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute was initially established in 1958 with the name of Suzhou Art & Design School. Its history could date back to Suzhou School of Art set up by Yan Wenliang, a renowned oil painter and art educator in China, in 1922. In August, 1999, Suzhou Art & Design School was merged with Suzhou Light Industrial Vocational University into Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute which is one of the first model higher vocational institutions in Jiangsu Province. In 2007, the institute was listed as the first batch of exemplary higher vocational college of Jiangsu Province, and then was listed as national key construction unit of higher vocational colleges in 2011.

The institute is well-equipped. Its construction, facilities, teaching staff, and digital campus take the lead among similar colleges in China.

The institute always assumes the responsibility of producing excellent application-oriented art designers with "fine abilities and noble characters". The Institute holds the outlook of scientific development, acts in the school spirit of "enrichment and brilliance", and takes the way of connotative, characteristic and open development. By integrating various sources, the Institute focuses on discipline construction. Based on the talent-training pattern of combining work and study, and supported by the development of primary ability and teaching faculty, it aims to yield significant profit and improve its educational quality.

The institute always takes the initiative to serve for the economic development and social progress. By basing itself in Suzhou, serving Jiangsu, and radiating to the Yangtze River Delta, the Institute will strive to develop students of great talents featuring "noble character, superior skills and clever hands" for the development of cultural creativity industry of the district.