Vocational and technical college is a first-class institution of higher learning in China, which is called "higher vocational education" for short, second only to undergraduate course, equivalent to junior college, and gradually begins to replace junior college. With higher vocational education as the main content, it is the fourth and fifth batch in the university admission order (merged into the fourth batch in 2007), and it is also the admission institution of "three schools" (vocational high school, technical secondary school and technical school) with single recruitment and single examination. Vocational and technical college is a local institution of higher learning, which exists as a preparation for local colleges and universities in places not covered by local colleges and universities, and can also be used as a supplement to local colleges and universities.

All kinds of education provided for adults are adult education. This definition is a general concept. Even this definition includes the difference and definition of teaching methods. Of course, copying the system, concept, connotation and methods of general education to adults is adult education? Of course not. Adult education is an extremely strict scientific concept, which has its own purpose, connotation, essential characteristics and laws. It is divided into two different educational categories and two educational systems different from general education.