The specialized training provided by organs and institutions to their staff shall be stipulated separately by laws and administrative regulations. Article 3 Vocational education is an equally important type of education as general education, an important part of the national education system and human resources development, and an important way to cultivate diversified talents, inherit skills and promote employment and entrepreneurship.
The state vigorously develops vocational education, promotes vocational education reform, improves the quality of vocational education, enhances its adaptability, establishes and improves a vocational education system that meets the needs of socialist market economy and social development and conforms to the law of the growth of technical and skilled personnel, and provides strong talent and skill support for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Article 4 Vocational education must adhere to the national leadership, the socialist direction of running schools, the national education policy, have both ability and political integrity, combine production with education, cooperate with schools and enterprises, face the market, promote employment, face practice, strengthen ability, face the whole population and teach students in accordance with their aptitude.
The implementation of vocational education should carry forward the socialist core values, carry out ideological and political education and professional ethics education for the educated, cultivate the spirit of model workers, laborers and craftsmen, impart scientific culture and professional knowledge, cultivate technical skills, provide vocational guidance and comprehensively improve the quality of the educated. Article 5 Citizens have the right to receive vocational education according to law. Article 6 Vocational education shall be implemented with overall planning by the government, hierarchical management, local priority, industry guidance, school-enterprise cooperation and social participation. Article 7 People's governments at all levels shall incorporate the development of vocational education into the national economic and social development plan, and make overall arrangements and plans for promoting employment and entrepreneurship, changing the development mode, adjusting the industrial structure, and optimizing and upgrading technology. Article 8 the State Council shall establish a coordination mechanism for vocational education, and make overall plans to coordinate vocational education throughout the country.
The education administrative department of the State Council is responsible for the overall planning, comprehensive coordination and macro-management of vocational education. The administrative departments of education, human resources and social security of the State Council and other relevant departments shall be responsible for the relevant vocational education within the scope of duties stipulated by the State Council.
The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall strengthen their leadership over vocational education within their respective administrative areas, clarify the specific responsibilities of vocational education of the people's governments at the city and county levels with districts, coordinate the development of vocational education as a whole, and organize supervision and evaluation.
Relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen communication and cooperation and jointly promote vocational education. Article 9 The state encourages the development of multi-level and multi-form vocational education, promotes the diversification of education, and supports social forces to participate in vocational education extensively and equally.
The state gives full play to the important role of enterprises in running schools, promotes enterprises to deeply participate in vocational education, and encourages enterprises to hold high-quality vocational education.
Relevant industry departments, trade unions, China Vocational Education Association and other mass organizations, industry organizations, enterprises and institutions shall fulfill their obligations to implement vocational education in accordance with the law, and participate in, support or implement vocational education. Article 10 The State shall take measures to vigorously develop the education of technicians and comprehensively improve the quality of industrial workers.
The state takes measures to support the organization of rural-oriented vocational education, organize agricultural skills training, entrepreneurship training and vocational skills training for returning home to start businesses, and cultivate high-quality talents for rural revitalization.
The state takes measures to support the development of vocational education in old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, remote areas and underdeveloped areas.
The state takes measures to organize all kinds of people who have changed jobs, re-employed, unemployed and special groups to receive various forms of vocational education and support the development of vocational education for the disabled.
The state guarantees women's equal right to receive vocational education. Article 11 The implementation of vocational education should be based on the needs of economic and social development, combined with the needs of vocational classification, vocational standards and vocational development, formulate educational standards or training programs, and implement the system of academic certificates and other academic certificates, training certificates, vocational qualification certificates and vocational skill level certificates.
The state practices a system in which laborers receive necessary vocational education before taking up employment or taking up their posts. Article 12 The state takes measures to improve the social status and treatment of technicians and skilled personnel, promote glorious labor and valuable skills, and create a great fashion of the times.
The state shall commend and reward units and individuals that have made remarkable achievements in vocational education in accordance with relevant regulations.
The second week of May every year is Vocational Education Activity Week. Article 13 The state encourages foreign exchanges and cooperation in the field of vocational education, supports the introduction of overseas high-quality resources to develop vocational education, encourages qualified vocational education institutions to run schools abroad, and supports mutual recognition of learning achievements in various forms of vocational education.