In the context of global economic integration, the competition for high-level and international nursing talents in the field of medical and health services is particularly fierce. Nursing education in some developed countries has developed towards undergraduate education. It is suggested that improving the education level of nurses is the key to improving the quality of nursing service and ensuring the safety of patients. In China, more and more foreign-related hospitals are stationed. There is an increasing demand for healthcare professionals with international vision and competitiveness. Exchange and cooperation with developed countries, while introducing advanced educational ideas and high-quality educational resources from abroad, can comprehensively promote the curriculum reform of nursing specialty in Higher Vocational colleges, improve the teaching level of nursing education, train high-quality and innovative nursing talents, and meet the needs of high-level and international nursing talents in domestic and foreign medical and health markets.

Suzhou Vocational Health College was founded in 1911. It has a long history, strong teaching staff, advanced teaching equipment and standardized practice hospital.

Accurately grasping the orientation and direction of running a school, insisting on exploring the relevant laws of medical education, taking service as the purpose, employment as the orientation, taking the road of combining production, education and research, practicing the spirit of "respecting people, devoting themselves to their work, being sincere", deepening the reform of education and teaching, constantly improving the level of personnel training, and training a large number of health technology talents for the health industry in Jiangsu Province，in 2002, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the State agreed to set up the "Suzhou Training Center for Medical and Nursing Personnel Expatriates" in our hospital, which is mainly responsible for the training and export of medical and nursing personnel expatriates. In 2011, the college was approved as the only construction unit of Health Demonstration Higher Vocational Colleges in Jiangsu Province. It formulated the "12th Five-Year" sub-plan of international cooperation and exchange. At the same time, it was listed by the Provincial Education Department as an autonomous pilot university for comprehensive reform of higher education. "Building Sino-foreign cooperation projects and promoting internationalization of higher vocational nursing personnel training" became the only selected Educational reform projects in the type of international cooperation and exchange in Jiangsu Province. The college attaches great importance to and continuously promotes the process of international cooperation and exchanges.

Nursing specialty is the traditional and brand specialty of the college. It has a history of one hundred years. It has opened a four-year nursing secondary school in China and a five-year consistent Nursing Higher Vocational school. It carries out professional construction oriented by job requirements, actively promoting school-enterprise cooperation and work-study integration. Identified by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education as the second batch of provincial brand professional construction sites, the Nursing Training Center is the central and provincial financial support for construction of project units, national and provincial vocational training bases. More than 40 Grade III Grade A Practice Hospitals and more than 200 training bases outside the college provide good conditions for students' clinical practice and practice. The passing rate of the nurse qualification examination reached 100%, ranking first in the whole province and even in the whole country. The employment rate was more than 97%, and the employer satisfaction rate was 100%.

The project partner, Japan Medical Welfare Talents Exchange Association, is an association legal person with the work content of talent and technology exchanges between China and Japan in the field of social well-being and the research on population aging in the two countries. Several Japanese social welfare service companies, pension institutions, social welfare groups, university professors of social welfare and other social groups and individuals joined the association. It mainly carries out business to promote the research on medical and nursing issues for the elderly, and to enhance exchanges of medical and nursing talents between China and Japan. 

Japan Hang Zhao Hui Group is its main cooperative medical institution. It is located in Osaka, Japan. It consists of medical legal person Aino  Hospital, school legal person Aino  College and social welfare legal person Aino  Welfare Association. It consists of 18 academic units, including Aino  Hospital, AI visiting nursing station, Aino  University, Aino  Renewable Medical Research Institute, Aino  Therapeutic Park and A school for children. Sumitomo International Japanese School is a cooperative language training unit with sufficient teachers and advanced facilities. It has accumulated rich experience in Japanese language training. 

Both sides have relatively mature and perfect nursing education system, advanced teaching concept, flexible teaching methods, strong teachers, good cooperative relationship and joint training of overseas nurses, which provide a platform for students to study and obtain employment abroad. 

During the period of 2009-2012, the College carried out the cooperative training program for overseas nurses and successfully transported more than 30 nursing students to Japan for internship and employment. In October 2014, it continued to promote the cooperative training program for overseas nurses. The main content of the cooperative training program for overseas nurses is to train qualified Chinese nursing students to attend intensive Japanese language training and Japanese National Nurse Examination guidance in Japan, to systematically learn Japanese nursing related skills and to familiarize themselves with Japanese nursing system and operation mode of nursing institutions. After passing the two examinations of Japanese Language Level I Examination and Japanese Nurse Qualification Certificate Examination, the students can have official employment in relevant hospitals in Japan.

Through the implementation of the cooperative training project for overseas nurses, on the one hand, we will consolidate the forms of cross-training, internship employment and order-based training, unswervingly take the road of "school-enterprise cooperation, work-study integration", and strive to promote the Multi-Cooperative personnel training mechanism through the mode of cooperation between Chinese and foreign schools and enterprises, so as to provide students with more and higher quality internationalization practice and research platform, broaden students' overseas practice channels, and improve students' overseas employment quality. On the other hand, it also promotes the self-improvement of professional teachers and managers, updates educational concepts, improves teaching level, and promotes the professional construction of colleges, so as to continuously broaden the horizon of internationalization of teachers and students, and strengthen the internationalization consciousness of teachers and students in higher education.

In April 2018, four students from Japanese nursing class smoothly went to Japan to study further.