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, including primary vocational education, secondary vocational education and higher vocational education (vocational education at specialist level, vocational education at undergraduate level and vocational education at postgraduate level). Vocational education and general education are two different types of education, which have the same important position. Vocational education is a kind of education, not a level education.

According to the provisions of the Vocational Education Law, vocational school education is divided into primary, secondary and higher vocational school education. Primary and secondary vocational school education is implemented by primary and secondary vocational schools respectively; Higher vocational school education is implemented by higher vocational schools or ordinary colleges and universities according to needs and conditions. Other schools can implement vocational school education at the same level according to the overall planning of the education administrative department.