China's education system is divided into four categories: higher education, basic education, vocational and technical education and adult education. Adult education includes basic education, higher education and vocational and technical education. According to the types of institutions, there are two kinds of general education and adult education. The main difference lies in the object of education and the nature of education: the former is pre-service education for the younger generation, and the latter is adult and post-service education for entering the professional society.

1. Get rid of poverty and become rich, and guide the transfer of rural labor force;

Developing education can improve the comprehensive quality of rural areas to meet the needs of upgrading the national industrial structure, improve the quality of urbanization and promote the sustained and healthy development of the national economy. For a person, mastering a skill can make a living; For a poor family, a mechanic has the hope of getting rid of poverty and getting rich; For a country, when a large number of workers have professional skills, economic development will have a solid foundation, thus fundamentally achieving poverty alleviation.

2. Promote modern industry:

It plays an important role in promoting the development of modern industrial system. Compared with the world's industrial powers, China's industrial basic materials, basic technologies, basic components and basic software are still relatively weak. The whole industrial chain is at the low end, and the problem of being big but not strong is outstanding. One of the important aspects is that the overall quality, technology and skills of industrial workers in China are not strong, and vocational education plays an important role in the new development stage.

3. Improve the quality of workers and promote the employment rate;

Improving the quality of workers mainly depends on national education, such as school education, social education and family education. Among them, school education is particularly important, because it is a standardized education that requires students to develop morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically. It requires every employee to strengthen their own vocational education and training, improve their personal skills and comprehensive quality, help enterprises to further develop and improve the quality of employment and living standards.

Higher vocational colleges take the road of theoretical education and technical training. At present, two students may find it easier to find a job in higher vocational colleges and more convenient to study in colleges and universities after graduation. College students tend to be theoretical and take the road of undergraduate education, which is lower than undergraduate education. Higher vocational education moves towards practice and cultivates graduates with strong practical ability.