Vocational education includes primary vocational education, secondary vocational education and higher vocational education (vocational education at junior college level, vocational education at undergraduate level and vocational education at postgraduate level).

Vocational education is the product of social development, the development of human civilization and the development of human beings. But also the product of a special period of development. Vocational education benefits from society, and society can also benefit from vocational education. Promoting social development is the proper meaning and sacred duty of vocational education.

The purpose of vocational education is to meet the employment needs of individuals and the objective needs of posts, so as to promote the development of social productive forces and accelerate the adjustment and transformation of national industrial structure.

Vocational education and general education are two different types of education, which have the same important position. Vocational education is a kind of education, not a level education. Vocational education includes vocational school education and vocational training.