Over the past 70 years, SPPC has trained more than 70,000 high-level technical talentsand senior management personnel for China's publishing and printing industry. Asrepresentatives of China, some students in SPPC attend the World Skills Competition for three years, and won the bronze and silver medals in the Print Media Technology Projects of the 42nd and 43rd World Skills Competitions, in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In the two consecutive American Printing Awards in 2017 and 2018, teachers and students from SPPC won 15 of the highest awards -- the Benny Award. As high-skilled talents in China's print media are gradually moving from SPPC to the world, the college was identified by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security as the China Training Base for the 43rd, 44th and 45th Print Media Technology Project in World Skills Competition, and wasawarded the “National Skilled Talent Training Outstanding Contribution Award”. SPPC has also been identified as the National Training Base for Printing and Publishing Talents by the former State Press and Publication Administration and has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Trainingof Skilled Talents for six times. In March 2018, Simon Bartley, Presidentof the World Skills Organization, was hired as an honorary professor in the collegeand established Simon Bartley China Skills Research Studio.

SPPC takes it as its own responsibility to train technical and skilled talents whoserve the publishing and printing media industry in Shanghai and the wholecountry and adheres to the philosophy of “based in Shanghai, leading thecountry, rely on its advantages in the industry, and making a contribution tosociety”. With the characteristics of combination of engineering,literature and art; integration of editing, printing and development, and three-prongedway of teaching, learning and doing, SPPC is committed to building a distinctivecollege of applied technology skills, a national publishing and printing talenttraining base, a cultural and creative industry service base in Shanghai, and anadvanced media technology promotion base in the world.

Adhering to the motto of “Advocating Morality, Promoting Virtue, Practice Earnestly and Dedicatedto Prosperity, SPPC is committed to connotative development,characteristic development, international development. By inheriting China'sexcellent publishing and printing culture, and actively absorbing internationaleducation ideas, advanced concepts, rich content, and flexible forms ofeducation, SPPC has formed three major professional groups: Printing Engineeringand Packaging Design, Publishing Dissemination and Cultural Managementand Art design and Film and Television Animation, which areinfiltrated by engineering, literature and art with distinctivecharacteristics. The college currently has the Department of Printing and PackagingEngineering, Department of Publishing and Dissemination, Department of PrintingEquipment Engineering, Department of Art and Design, Department of Cultural Management,Department of Film and Television Art, Department of Foundational Teaching, Departmentof Ideological and Political Education, College of Modern Media Technology and Art,the Office of Continuing Education and other teaching departments.