The Tianjin Vocational Schools Joint Journal is supervised by the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission, sponsored by the Tianjin Vocational Education and Adult Education Association, and led by Tianjin City Vocational College. It is sponsored by vocational schools, adult colleges and other units that voluntarily participate in and recognize the Tianjin Vocational Schools Joint Journal Work Regulations. In 1999, it was approved by the State Press and Publication Administration and named the Tianjin Adult Colleges Joint Journal when it was first published. It was renamed the Tianjin Vocational Schools Joint Journal in 2006. It was a quarterly when it was first published in 1999, and changed from a quarterly to a bimonthly in 2004, and from a bimonthly to a monthly in 2011.
The Tianjin Vocational Schools Joint Journal is currently sponsored by more than 40 vocational schools, adult colleges and other units in Tianjin. It is based in Tianjin, facing the whole country, facing vocational education and adult education, facing science and scientific research, and timely reflecting the academic achievements and advanced experiences achieved in the reform and development of higher vocational colleges and adult colleges.