Guangdong Vocational and Technical College of light industry is a full-time higher vocational and technical college approved by the Ministry of education in 1999. It is sponsored by the people's Government of Guangdong Province and directly managed by the Department of education of Guangdong Province.The predecessor of the school is "the first vocational school in Guangdong Province", which was founded in 1933. It has a history of 80 years of vocational education. In 2004, it was recognized by the Ministry of education and the Ministry of construction as a pilot University for the cultivation of national construction skilled talents. In June 2006, the school received the Ministry of education higher vocational college personnel training level evaluation, and obtained excellent results. In 2007, it was listed as a provincial model university construction unit. In 2008, it was listed as the construction unit of national model higher vocational colleges; in 2011, it passed the demonstration acceptance organized by the Ministry of education and the Ministry of finance; in 2016, it was listed as the first-class construction unit of Higher Vocational Colleges in Guangdong Province.According to the school information in April 2017, the school has two campuses, Guangzhou and Nanhai, with a total area of 1500 mu (including 218 mu of Guangzhou Campus), a building area of 430000 square meters, and a total fixed assets value of 1.55 billion yuan, including teaching and scientific research equipment of more than 200 million yuan. The library has a collection of 1.6 million books. The experimental and practical training site covers an area of nearly 200000 square meters, with 13 secondary departments, a total of 69 majors and 130 professional directions. There are 21700 full-time ordinary vocational college students. In December, 2019, the school was listed in the second category by the Ministry of finance.