Understanding: Vocational education refers to the education that enables the educated to acquire the professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics required by a certain occupation or productive labor, including primary vocational education, secondary vocational education and higher vocational education (vocational education at the specialist level, vocational education at the undergraduate level and vocational education at the postgraduate level). Understanding: Vocational education and general education are two different types of education and 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. Vocational school education includes various vocational and technical schools, technical schools and vocational high schools (vocational middle schools). Vocational school education is academic education, which is divided into primary, secondary and higher vocational school education. Vocational training is non-academic education, including pre-job training for workers, re-employment training for laid-off workers and other vocational training.

The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents, socialist workers and socialist builders 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.