The concept of "higher vocational education" does have some "China characteristics". If we want to trace back to the source, it is probably the product of the rise of short-term vocational universities in China in the early 1980s, especially in some medium-sized cities.

"Higher vocational education" is a combination of the two concepts of "higher education" and "vocational education". The compound result leads to three understandings: the first one classifies it as "higher education" and thinks that higher vocational education is a specific education with strong professionalism and application in higher education.

The second view is that it is only an advanced part of the category of "vocational education" and does not belong to higher education, so "higher education" and "vocational education" are regarded as two parallel and non-overlapping educational categories; The third general understanding is that any education (no matter what series it belongs to) that trains higher-level vocational and technical talents belongs to higher vocational education.

Training goal: mainly to enable scholars to acquire practical ability (including skills and knowledge, etc. ) is required by a specific occupation or occupational group and provides a path to a certain occupation. Because the curriculum plan of 5B belongs to the intermediate type between the general discipline type and the direct employment type, its training goal is correspondingly the intermediate technical type between the discipline research type and the direct operation type.