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Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology

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Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology (Chinese: 无锡工艺职业技术学院) is a public full-time general college located in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China.[1][2]

History

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Founded in 1933, the school was named Jiangsu Yixing Ceramics Vocational School. In 1958, it was renamed Taodu University of Technology.

It became part of the Jiangsu Yixing Ceramics Industrial School in 1959.

In 1985, it was renamed Jiangsu Yixing Light Industry School (Yixing Lixin Accounting School).

In 2004, the Wuxi Institute of Technology was established from a merger of the Yixing Light Industry School and Jiangsu Radio and Television University Yixing College. The Yixing Light Industry School was abolished.[3][4]

On 16 November 2024, the 2024 Wuxi stabbing attack took place at the campus where seven people were killed and 17 others injured.[5][6]

References

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Official website