Higher vocational undergraduate education is a full-time undergraduate education, and the degree is a professional bachelor. Higher vocational undergraduate and ordinary undergraduate jointly constitute the full-time undergraduate level of China's higher education system.
Taiwan Province Province in China has long had the types of higher vocational undergraduate education, and some provinces and cities in Chinese mainland have also started applied higher vocational undergraduate education. Kunming University of Science and Technology is the first institution of higher learning approved by Yunnan provincial government to recruit higher vocational undergraduates.
As a type in the development of higher education, higher vocational education has a complete system including higher vocational colleges and higher vocational undergraduate courses. It shoulders the mission of cultivating high-quality applied technical and vocational technical talents facing the first-line needs of production, construction, service and management, and plays an irreplaceable role in accelerating the process of socialist modernization in China.
With the integration of urban and rural construction, the new industrialization road, the acceleration of the construction of new socialist countryside and the increasing demand for high-skilled talents in innovative countries, in order to meet the demand for all kinds of high-skilled talents in the national economic transformation and the transformation of new economic growth mode, the "overpass" of modern vocational education is built to promote the development of modern vocational education.