The college has made solid progress in integrating science and education to enhance its social service capabilities. Since the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, it has established 21 municipal-level or above innovation platforms, including the Shandong Engineering Research Center, the Shandong Higher Education Future Industry Engineering Research Center, and the Shandong Higher Education Technological Achievements Transformation and Technology Transfer Base. The college has undertaken 77 provincial-level or above teaching and research projects, including the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Project and the Provincial Natural Science Foundation Project. Additionally, it has carried out 68 horizontal service projects, won 100 provincial-level teaching and research achievement awards, and obtained 94 invention patents. The college has also established the only provincial-level popular science base in the province with the theme of “Labor Education and Vocational Experience”. As one of the first vocational skill assessment and certification institutions in the province, the college has set up a Shandong Veterans Entrepreneurship and Employment Guidance Station. It provides training for key groups such as students, enterprise employees, migrant workers, and veterans, with an annual training capacity exceeding 20,000 people.

Serving the "Belt and Road" Initiative by building an international cooperation and exchange platform. With a focus on enhancing the quality of international education, the college strategically balances the efforts of “bringing in” and “going global”. It integrates the achievements of Chinese traditional culture, Qilu Confucian culture, and the college’s labor culture into the cultivation of high-skilled international talents. Additionally, the college promotes its mature domestic model of industry-education integration to overseas markets. It has established three overseas education programs and co-founded the Ban Mo College with Himile Group, providing robust talent support for Chinese enterprises expanding globally. The college has established friendly cooperative relationships with institutions in 23 countries, including South Korea, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Thailand, and Cambodia, etc.  It currently runs three Sino-foreign cooperative education programs and has developed 34 multilingual vocational standards, professional standards, curriculum standards, and educational resources, which have been promoted and applied in 11 countries. The college has also initiated the German Bosch Applied and Technical Skills Talent Training Pilot Project under the Ministry of Education's Department of International Cooperation and Exchange, as well as the Sino-German Advanced Vocational Education Cooperation Project in Industrial Robotics Technology. It has been approved as the leading unit of the Shandong Provincial Technical Colleges International Exchange and Cooperation Center Teaching and Research Group. Furthermore, the college hosts the “Chinese Bridge” group exchange program, providing “vocational skills + Chinese language” training to countries such as Singapore, Russia, Cambodia, and Thailand, fostering deeper cultural and technical exchanges.

Thanks to the solid talent cultivation and outstanding quality of the graduates, the college has formed a robust employment landscape characterized by a wide range of job opportunities, high relevance to students’ majors, and promising career prospects. The employment rate of its graduates has consistently remained above 98%. The college has been recognized as an Advanced Unit for Employment Work in Provincial Colleges and Universities and a Provincial Demonstration College for Entrepreneurship Education. It has also been listed on the 30 Years of Reform and Opening-Up Shandong Education Overall Ranking—Most Employment-Driven Higher Vocational College, ranked among the Top 50 Higher Vocational Colleges with Brand Influence, recognized as one of the Top 10 Public Higher Vocational Colleges in Comprehensive Strength, and honored as a College Most Recognized by Employers for Its Graduates and a Most Popular Higher Vocational College Among Netizens.

Seventy years of vocational education practice have endowed the college with profound heritage, shaping its distinctive educational features characterized by “excellence in skills, employment priority, equal emphasis on education and training, and dual-certificate education”. Standing at a new starting point, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the college will adhere to the fundamental principle of “fostering virtue and cultivating talents”, and uphold the educational philosophy of “high-end leadership, establishing a distinctive college, connotative development, and diversified education”. It will strive to build a high-level vocational college that is first-class domestically and distinctly unique.