The importance of developing vocational education to improve the quality of workers and the overall quality of all the people who can engage in social labor in a country. The population engaged in social labor mainly includes employees and unemployed people, as well as school-leavers, domestic workers, military service personnel and other people of working age.

Social production and economic construction are realized through the labor of these people, and their quality plays an important role in the development of productive forces.

Improving the quality of workers mainly depends on education, including school education, social education and family education. Among them, school education is particularly important, because it is a standardized education, an education that requires students to develop morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically, a purposeful, planned and organized education, and an education that is completed by a large number of cadres and teachers.

This kind of education has played a decisive role in improving the quality of workers. In today's world, the competition of comprehensive national strength based on people's quality is becoming increasingly fierce, so it is urgent to improve the comprehensive quality of the whole people, and education is given priority.

Social factors of vocational education

1. Population status: The age structure, gender structure, educational background structure, skill level structure and birth rate of the population have always been very important factors to be considered in the development planning of vocational education, which has a great influence on the scale development of vocational education.

For example, there is a shortage of skilled workers in China at present, so the training of skilled workers may become a very important growth point in the development of vocational education in China. The birth rate is also a very important factor in the fluctuation of the scale of vocational education.

2. Social stratification: The stratification of a society is too obvious, the gap between different social classes is too large, and the vertical flow of society is very difficult, which may make members of society have a strong desire to change their original social status through education, prompting them to choose more general education instead of vocational education, thus bringing difficulties to the development of vocational education.