Vocational education refers to an educational activity that educates the educated to have comprehensive qualities such as professional ethics, scientific culture, professional knowledge and technical skills required for engaging in a certain occupation or professional development.

Vocational education includes vocational school education and vocational skills training. Vocational school education is academic vocational education, which is divided into primary, secondary and higher vocational school education. Vocational skills training is short-term vocational education without academic qualifications, including pre-job training, job-transfer training, apprenticeship training, on-the-job training, job-transfer training and other vocational training. Compared with general education and adult education, vocational education pays more attention to the cultivation of practical skills and practical work ability.