In order to further improve the higher vocational education system with China characteristics and the diversified selection and admission mechanism of higher education, the Ministry of Education has implemented the spirit of the document "Opinions of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance on Implementing the Construction Plan of National Model Higher Vocational Colleges to Accelerate the Reform and Development of Higher Vocational Education" (Jiaogao [2006]14), and actively explored and guided high school graduates and secondary vocational graduates to be rationally diverted to high-quality higher vocational colleges. To improve the quality of students in higher vocational education, it is decided that higher vocational colleges should organize proposition, examination and marking before the college entrance examination, delimit the minimum admission control score line, determine the admission list, and report it directly to the provincial education examination institute for approval and filing. This form of enrollment is called "individual enrollment" in higher vocational colleges, and candidates who take the individual enrollment examination enjoy the same treatment as those who take the college entrance examination.

The independent enrollment of higher vocational colleges in China began in 2007, and the subject unit of the proposition gradually expanded from national demonstration vocational colleges to national backbone vocational colleges, provincial demonstration vocational colleges and vocational colleges in the national comprehensive reform experimental zone of higher vocational education.