It is a full-time vocational college for various professional training, including foreign language, computing, law, accounting, international business, art, and hospitality departments.

Alley's role continues to be is acknowledged with his likeness appearing on the top of the home page of the BBU website together with his motto for the school which was 'train for the dawn' of the New China.

[2] On April 12, 2008, Premier Wen Jiabao inscribed the university motto ‘Hands and mind, create and analyze’ formulated by two great friends of China, Rewi Alley from New Zealand, and George Hogg from Britain who established the Bailie Technical School in Shandan, Gansu Province in early 1940s.

Premier Wen also wrote a letter in reply to BBU's students in which he affirmed the successes of the Beijing Bailie University.

At the signing Bromwich acknowledged the significance of the legacy Rewi Alley has left for the relationship between the people of New Zealand and China, in the Gung Ho cooperative movement and in the Bailie Education system.