1. Lifelong education means that higher education is no longer just an education system based on academic qualifications, but also includes an industry education system based on vocational qualification education and a social education system based on cultural life education. Higher education will no longer be the end stage for people with a certain number of years to receive education;

2. Lifelong education refers not to a specific entity, but to a general idea or principle, or a series of care and research methods. Generally speaking, it also refers to the sum of a person's lifelong education and all personal and social life education;

3. Lifelong education is characterized by lifelong, learning, individualization, diversification and integration.