Xiangtan Industrial and Trade Secondary Vocational School is a full-time secondary vocational school organized by the People's Government of Xiangtan and directly under the Xiangtan Education Bureau. Founded in 1960 and offering vocational education in 1981, it is one of the vocational schools with the longest history in Hunan。The University is located in the North Second Ring Road of Xiangtan City, adjacent to Xiangtan University, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan Economic Development Zone, Xiangtan Ring Road Economic belt and the core of Chang-Zhu-tan Financial City. The campus covers an area of more than 110,000 square meters。

The school connects with Xiangtan modern equipment manufacturing, red tourism, automobile and parts leading industries，It has opened 11 majors such as numerical control technology application, automobile application and maintenance, tourism service and management, Chinese cooking, childcare, art and design，Formed in the modern equipment manufacturing class, modern service class two major professional groups，Professional development pattern supplemented by early childhood care and art design。There are 240 faculty members and 4079 students。

There are 228 full-time teachers in the school, 43% of whom have the title of associate senior or above, and 85 professional teachers are double-qualified teachers.6%;There are more than 20 excellent teachers such as national and provincial excellent teachers, provincial and municipal excellent class teachers, skill masters, craftsmen and technical experts。

The school has established a stable cooperative relationship with more than 20 high-quality schools, and the school and enterprises have jointly built 12 off-campus practical training and practice bases。Six "Schaeffler classes" have been opened in cooperation with Schaeffler, Germany, and the "dual system" localization training has become a model for the integration of production and education in Hunan vocational colleges. In August 2023, Schaeffler Xiangtan Training Center moved to the school, further deepening the integration of production and education。The number of prizes won at all levels of skill competition in 2019-2023 ranked first in the city, the number of prizes won at all levels of skill competition in 2019-2023 ranked first in the city, and won 3 national awards;122 provincial awards, including 26 first prizes;There were 287 municipal awards, including 116 first prizes。The province's secondary vocational "civilized style" activities won 82 awards, including 34 first prizes。The counterpart college entrance examination and cultural skills assessment lead the city, the counterpart college entrance examination admission rate is more than 90%, and the city basically covers the undergraduate online students of the counterpart college entrance examination for many consecutive years;The pass rate of cultural general test is 97.2%, professional skills test pass rate 100%。