Abstract: As our society has become an "era of information", this has created a new kind of need for teachers' knowledge structure and teaching competencies. As an important aspect of teachers' professional development, teachers' ICT based teaching competence is a key factor in the success of education and teaching reform. Therefore, researchers and practitioners in teachers' professional development need to explore new development strategies with the purpose of increasing teachers' ICT based teaching competence. This paper studies English teachers in six colleges and universities in Hebei province as research objects. Based on research, this paper explores the status quo of teachers' ICT based teaching in the new era by means of questionnaires and interviews: teachers' attitude toward ICT based teaching, teachers' ICT knowledge and ICT based teaching competence, and the status quo of ICT based teaching resources and environment. Meanwhile，through the analysis of the influential factors in the ICT based teaching, this paper puts forward development strategies for teachers' ICT based teaching competence at different levels: carrying out training activities to enhance the teachers' ICT based teaching competence, increasing the awareness of teachers' learning autonomy, and creating a favorable ICT based teaching environment.

Key words: Hebei province, college English teachers, ICTbased teaching competence, the status quo and countermeasure