The Shandong Lanxiang Vocational School (simplified Chinese: 山东蓝翔高级技工学校; traditional Chinese: 山東藍翔高級技工學校; pinyin: Shāndōng Lánxiáng Gāojí Jìgōng Xuéxiào), colloquially Lanxiang (Chinese: 蓝翔), is a vocational school in the Tianqiao District of Jinan, Shandong, China.

[2] The school admits about 20,000 students per year[1] and offers courses in subjects like cooking, auto repair, construction equipment operations (specialized in excavator), hairdressing, as well as computer skills.

[3] According to the website Week in China, this school is known for its computer training programmes offered to Chinese students and is infamous abroad as a breeding ground for an army of hackers originating from China.

The fact that the school was owned by the People's Liberation Army until 2000 further fuelled speculation.

However, Zhihu Daily, a Chinese internet newspaper, reported that one its undercover journalists discovered that most of the students at this school were unmotivated farmers who would not be remotely capable of hacking US targets.