Their origins are different, their executive bodies are different, and their functions and training objectives are also different. These fundamental differences determine the status of general education and vocational education. The similarity is that the fundamental educational purpose of general education and vocational education is the same, which is to cultivate "socialized people".

General education mainly cultivates research-oriented, exploratory and design-oriented talents, while vocational education mainly cultivates technical and management-oriented talents with university-level professional knowledge and advanced skills, who can provide technical guidance, transform design drawings into required objects, and conduct on-site command by using design concepts or management ideas.

Characteristics of vocational education:

Professionalism determines the value appeal of educational practice. Higher vocational education is career-oriented, and the trained talents will eventually face specific production practice activities, which have specific post requirements, contents and situations. This determines that the educational process should take solving students' professional puzzles as its value pursuit and cultivate students' healthy, harmonious and personalized professional ethics.

If the pursuit of education is divorced from the practical value orientation, it will inevitably lead to the hollowing out and generalization of moral education, and it will be impossible to cultivate talents with good moral literacy who can meet the needs of the post and achieve professional goals.