广西经贸职业技术学院是2004年由自治区人民政府批准成立的公办全日制普通高等职业院校，隶属自治区供销合作联社。学校现有：青山、明秀、五合（在建）三个校区，全日制高职在校生11754人，教职工358人，专兼职教师386人，拥有高级职称79人，中级职称169人 ，3人入选广西“十百千”拔尖会计人才。另外还聘任了一批兼职教授、企业高管及能工巧匠等充实教学及科研队伍。

学校设有商贸管理学院、财会金融学院、智能与信息工程学院、文化旅游学院、艺术设计与建筑学院、通识教育学院、马克思主义学院、智慧商务产业学院等8个二级学院，构建以商贸类专业为核心，以服务农村现代流通为特色的专业发展格局，重点建设财会金融、现代流通、商务信息化、艺术设计和旅游服务五大专业群，开设电子商务、服装与服饰设计、会计、烹调工艺与营养、市场营销等39个高职专业。

学校遵循“立德弘商、兴贸致远”的校训，形成了“秉商崇商、学商精商、为商研商、融商弘商”的办学理念，凝炼了“商学合一、德才双馨”的人才培养理念，扎根桂商文化沃土，服务广西经济社会发展，取得了丰硕的办学成果。学校成为全国供销合作社示范性高职院校、国家第二批现代学徒制试点单位、国家首批职业教育教师教学创新团队立项建设单位，入选广西高水平专业建设计划立项建设单位，学校获国家级教学成果奖二等奖2项，自治区级教学成果奖10项，中央财政支持专业4个，广西高等学校特色专业及课程一体化建设项目3个，广西高等学校优势特色专业建设点6个，自治区示范性高等职业教育实训基地3个,获得各类荣誉100多项。

广西经贸职业技术学院以服装、烹饪、电商三个特色专业群为依托，建设“衣食商”（衣—“衣路工坊”，食—“伊尹学堂”，商—“电商谷”）承载平台，以职业教育相关标准为支撑纽带，以校内部门协作、国内外政行企校多方协同为驱动机制，与东盟国家构建职教共同体，形成“衣食商”领域产业链、教育链、人才链、创新链“四链融通”的职教国际化办学模式，成果覆盖国内40多所职业院校和100多家企业、东盟国家23所院校和700多家企业，入选了教育部部省品牌培育项目、中国-东盟高职院校特色合作项目。2019年，学院国际化办学成果获得广西职业教育教学成果奖一等奖。截至目前，成果实践检验和推广应用时间超过5年，大幅度提升了广西职业教育教学改革成果辐射东盟国家的力度，产生了一批高水平的标志性成果。

Guangxi Economic and Trade Vocational Institute (GXETVI), a public full-time vocational college approved by the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2004, is affiliated with the Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. GXETVI has currently set up three campuses, namely Qingshan Campus, Changgang Campus, and Wuhe Campus (under construction). It has 11,754 full-time students, 358 faculty members, 386 full-time and part-time teachers, of whom 79 have senior professional post titles, 169 have medium professional post titles, and three have been selected as Guangxi "Ten-Hundred-Thousand" Top Accounting Talent. In addition, the Institute has recruited a group of part-time professors, enterprise executives, and skilled personnel to enrich teams for teaching and scientific research.

GXETVI has set up 8 secondary colleges, including School of Business Management, School of Accounting and Finance, School of Intelligence and Information Engineering, School of Culture and Tourism, School of Art Design and Architecture, School of General Education, School of Marxism, and Digital Business College. On this basis, it forms a professional development pattern with commercial and trade majors as core and serving rural modern circulation as a feature; attaches great importance to five major groups of finance and accounting, modern circulation, business information, art design, and tourism service; and establishes 39 higher vocational specialties, such as e-commerce, apparel and accessories design, accounting, cooking technique and nutrition, and marketing.

Following the motto of "establish moral sentiments, carry forward business, and prosper trades with high aspirations", GXETVI has formed the schooling concept of "stay true to business, master the knowledge of business, conduct research on business, and integrate and promote business", and the talent training concept of "cultivate talent who integrate business with knowledge and possess both virtue and ability". Rooted in Guangxi's business culture, the institute serves the economic and social development of Guangxi and obtains fruitful education results. The Institute has been included in the model higher vocational colleges of national supply and marketing cooperatives, the second batch of national pilot units of modern apprenticeship, the first batch of national project construction units of teaching innovation teams of teachers of vocational education, and Guangxi project construction units of the high-level specialty construction plan. GXETVI has won two national teaching achievement awards, 10 teaching achievement awards in the autonomous region, four majors supported by central finance, and three integrated construction projects of characteristic specialties and courses in colleges and universities in Guangxi, six construction sites of advantageous and characteristic specialties in colleges and universities in Guangxi, three demonstration training bases for higher vocational education in the autonomous region, and more than 100 honors of all kinds.

Leveraging the three characteristic majors — Clothing, Cuisine, and E-commerce, Guangxi Economic and Trade Vocational Institute has built the integrated platform of “Clothing-Cuisine-Commerce” for the three majors, namely the "Yilu Workshop" for clothing, "Yi Yin School" for Cuisine, and "E-commerce Valley" for E-commerce. With relevant standards of vocational education as the pillar, as well as interdepartmental collaboration within the Institute and Sino-foreign multilateral coordination such as governments, banks, enterprises, and schools as the driving mechanism, Guangxi Economic and Trade Vocational Institute has established a community of vocational education with ASEAN countries to develop the international mode of running vocational education, of which the industry chain, education chain, talent chain, and innovation chain have been integrated. Moreover, as the platform has benefited more than 40 vocational colleges and 100 enterprises in China, as well as 23 vocational colleges and more than 700 enterprises in ASEAN countries, it has been selected into the "Projects for Cultivating Ministerial and Provincial Brands" of the Ministry of Education, and the Characteristic Cooperation Projects between China-ASEAN Higher Vocational Colleges. In 2019, Guangxi Economic and Trade Vocational Institute was granted the First Prize of Guangxi Vocational Education Teaching Achievement Award with its satisfying results of international school running. As of now, the achievements have been tested by practice and applied for more than five years, greatly magnifying the influence of the achievements of Guangxi's vocational education and teaching reform on ASEAN countries, among which there are a number of high-level ones with landmark significance.