Vocational education refers to the education that instructs the educated to acquire the professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics needed by a certain occupation or productive labor. The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents and workers with a certain cultural level and professional knowledge and skills. Compared with general education and adult education, vocational education pays more attention to the cultivation of practical skills and practical work ability.

In China, vocational education is also called vocational and technical education, because many vocational education endows the educated with the necessary knowledge and skills to engage in a certain occupation.

However, the real positioning is still different:

Judging from the appellation of vocational education at home and abroad, the concept of vocational education involves three key words, namely "occupation", "technology", "education" or "training". Therefore, to understand vocational education, we must look at these three core concepts involved in vocational education. More generally, it is the true connotation of these keywords in Chinese and English and the social significance they contain.

In other words, it is related to the process of human development. The reproduction of < technology > knowledge is the value growth of human beings, and it is a meaningful system related to human growth, generation and development. It has four connotations: the generation of value, the reality of meaning, the contextualization of content and the individualization of conclusion.

In Vocational Education, people are generative and pursue value and significance, which means that vocational education should be a meaningful system. Or it can be understood that knowledge is the foundation and intermediary, and it is the process of realizing human values.

To sum up, the core of vocational and technical education is the result of improving ability, and the core of vocational education is the process of improving results.