Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College (SUCC) is a higher vocational college specializing in urban construction, urban management and urban services. It was formed in 2016 by merging the Shanghai Technical College of Urban Management and Shanghai Jianfeng Vocational College with the academic education sector of the Shanghai Vocational College of Trade Union. SUCC is committed to the development of modern vocational education, catering to the needs of Shanghai's "Five Centers" and "Four Brands" initiatives as well as the national urbanization process. With a focus on the goal of "building a people's city and cultivating first-class craftsmen", it continues to optimize its discipline construction programs and explore new models for talent cultivation.

SUCC comprises eight secondary schools, offering 45 majors to over 10,000 full-time undergraduate students. Presently, SUCC provides 14 state-level key programs, four municipal-level high-level major groups, eight first-class vocational majors, 15 majors that achieve the integration of secondary and higher vocational education, and three majors that achieve the integration of higher vocational and undergraduate education. It has established a comprehensive training system with higher vocational education as the core, featuring a training model that integrates secondary vocational education, higher vocational education and applied undergraduate education, and an integrated development pattern of "education-training-skill competition". SUCC also oversees a national demonstration secondary vocational school—Shanghai Construction Engineering School.

There are over 800 teachers, including over 200 with senior professional titles, and "double-qualified" teachers account for 66% of the total number. More than 40 teachers of SUCC have received honors at or above the provincial and ministerial level, such as the Government Special Allowance Expert, Outstanding Contribution Expert at the Provincial or Ministerial Level, National Light Industry Technical Expert, Shanghai Teaching Master, and Shanghai Yucai Award.

Aiming to cultivate future urban craftsmen, SUCC explores new models for ideological and political education and comprehensively promotes ideological and political education in courses and teaching reforms. It is building a labor model culture education system for a new era based on four dimensions, including "red gene, craftsman spirit, innovation concept, and global vision", so as to guide students to carry forward the spirit of the labor model (craftsman), aspire to skillful achievement and serve the country with skills. Continuously deepening its cooperation with enterprises and industries for development, SUCC is actively exploring new talent cultivation models and teaching methods such as the modern apprenticeship system, "study in construction sites" and "1+X" certificates. By benchmarking the standards of the World Skills Competition (WSC), SUCC has also set up high-level technology and skills competition platforms for teachers and students. In the past five years, students of SUCC have won more than 1,000 awards in various competitions such as trial competitions of the WSC and the National Vocational College Skills Competition.

SUCC is taking active steps to deepen the opening-up of vocational education, thus promoting its development in international education. It serves as a vice-chairman unit of the China-UK Vocational Education Cooperation and Development Committee and offers the accreditation of majors. SUCC has also established an overseas branch in Thailand, provides online courses through the "Lu Ban Classroom", and promotes the learning of "Chinese + vocational skills", so as to advance cultural and technological exchanges.