Upon the approval of the Ministry of Education, Wenzhou Polytechnic (WZPT) was founded through the amalgamation of Wenzhou Business School, Wenzhou School of Economics, Wenzhou Machinery Industrial School and Wenzhou Spare-time Technology University in 1999. Its history dates back to 1956. The college was funded by Wenzhou Municipal Government, and supervised by Department of Education of Zhejiang Province. Now it is a “double high” higher vocational college, national model of higher vocational college, a key higher vocational college in Zhejiang, an advanced organization of vocational education in China, and a pilot school of modern apprenticeship approved by the Ministry of Education. It is also a state-level maker space rated by the Ministry of Science and Education, one of the first batch of four-year vocational colleges, and a civilized organization of Zhejiang Province.

WZPT has 4 campuses, namely Chashan, Ruian, Adult Training and Design College of Wenzhou. Chashan campus is the main campus which located in the picturesque Wenzhou Higher Education Park. WZPT takes up a total area of is 1087.2 mu (about 0.725 km²). Its building area is 354000 m². The college has teaching equipment worth of 167 million RMB, a library collection of 1.08 million books. It has over 720 staff members, among which 248 people have sub-senior professional titles or above (including 46 professors and 8 master supervisors). At present, WZPT has about 11100 full-time students. The employment rate of its graduates has been over 98% in the last 14 years. In the past five years, its students have won over 500 awards in provincial and national kill contests.

WZPT has 7 departments: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electric Engineering, Department of Architectural Engineering, Department of Information Technology, Department of Business Management, Department of Finance, Ruian College, College of Design and Innovation. In total there are 39 majors, which mainly consists of engineering-related majors. Design-related majors and majors in economics and management are also developed in a balanced way. At the moment, it has won 4 first and second prizes of national teaching achievements and 6 first prizes of provincial teaching achievements. It has 21 national majors such as national backbone major, national demonstration key major, 24 provincial advantageous specialties, 2 four-year higher vocational pilot majors, 2 national teaching resource banks, 8 national training bases, 10 provincial training bases, 7 national excellent courses.