Only when the connecting channels of vocational education and other types of education become more and more integrated, and the channels for vocational college graduates to study and become more and more broad, the competitiveness and attractiveness of vocational education can be greatly enhanced

AX7695LAM-37 For some time now, good news has been circulating in the field of vocational education. The Ministry of Education and Guangdong, Zhejiang two provinces to explore the establishment of a “minister governor” mechanism, Wenzhou, Taizhou each year to invest 100 million yuan of special funds to promote the integration of vocational education, Jiangsu support enterprises and social forces to participate in all kinds of vocational education… The continuous accumulation and release of policy dividends has injected strong impetus into the development of vocational education.

Efforts to train hundreds of millions of high-quality workers and technical skills is an inevitable requirement to promote China’s transformation from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power, and from made in China to created in China. Students trained by vocational AX7695LAM-37 colleges are the main source of technical skills, which is of great significance for improving the quality of human capital, promoting industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development. Statistics show that vocational colleges at all levels train about 10 million graduates every year, and more than 70% of new front-line employees in modern manufacturing, strategic emerging industries and modern service industries come from vocational colleges. At the same time, we must be soberly aware that out of the more than 200 million skilled workers in China, only over 50 million are highly skilled. To solve the structural contradiction between supply and demand of high-quality technical talents, it is urgent for vocational education to advance to a higher level.

Unlike other types of education, vocational education is more dependent on external factors. To promote the high-quality development of vocational education, the government, enterprises and society need to form a joint force and create a AX7695LAM-37 good development environment for it. All localities and departments should fundamentally understand the importance of vocational education, strengthen macro overall planning, incorporate the development of vocational education into the overall planning of economic and social development, and provide a strong talent guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country. From the perspective of policies and measures around the country, the atmosphere of attaching importance to vocational education and developing vocational education is taking shape, and vocational education has received more powerful policy support.

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Among various forms of education, vocational education is closely related to economic and social development. To promote the high-quality development of vocational education, we must docking industries, optimize the layout, and constantly deepen supply-side structural reform. Changsha Aviation Vocational and Technical College of Hunan Province cancelled the majors that were not closely connected with the market, and built a few but fine aviation specialty groups; Shanghai has stepped up the layout of vocational education majors related to emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, biomedicine, elderly AX7695LAM-37 care and nursing, as well as modern service industries, in an effort to create high-quality vocational education. At present, vocational colleges and universities across the country offer more than 1,200 majors and 100,000 specialized points, basically covering all fields of the national economy. By deepening the integration of production and education, the pattern of the same frequency resonance between vocational colleges and local economic and social development is clearly visible.

Vocational education and general education are two different types of education and have the same important status. To promote the high-quality development of vocational education, we must open up the connecting channels of secondary vocational education, higher vocational education, applied undergraduate education and even professional degree postgraduate education, do a good job in the coordinated development of vocational education, continuing education and general AX7695LAM-37 education, and build a “flyover” for talent growth. Since 2019, the Ministry of Education has approved 22 schools to carry out pilot vocational education at the undergraduate level, breaking the “ceiling” of vocational education that stops at the specialist level. Facts have proved that the competitiveness and attractiveness of vocational education can be greatly enhanced only when the connecting channels of vocational education and other types of education are more and more integrated and the channels for graduates to study and become more and more broad.

The quality of workers is crucial to the development of a country and a nation. Give full play to the function of vocational education as a reservoir of talents, better transform the demographic dividend into a talent dividend, and provide a fresh force for Chinese industries to move towards the middle and high end of the global value chain. Vocational education will certainly have great achievements.