The globalization of education has brought important opportunities for the development of vocational education in China. If we actively conform to the trend of educational globalization, we can promote the renewal of school-running concept, accelerate the pace of professional adjustment and innovation of training mode, make up for the serious shortage of vocational education resources in China, and make our vocational education integrate into the process of educational globalization and connect with international education. At the same time, to grasp the opportunity of educational globalization, we must have a profound and clear understanding of the challenges faced by the development of vocational education in China, which is an important prerequisite and necessary condition for us to grasp this historical opportunity.

Educational institutions and investors in developed countries are challenging the vocational education market in China. The main form of globalization is the opening of education market. Although opening China's vocational education market can promote the development of vocational education in the long run, China's vocational education will face many challenges from the market because of its short listing time, lack of high-quality resources, lack of experience and low quality, which are concentrated in the student source market and talent market.

This challenge is mainly the impact of educational institutions and investors in developed countries on China's vocational education market, which is manifested in the following aspects: foreign educational institutions seize China's student market, attract foreign students and obtain vocational education resources. Due to the lack of investment, weak foundation, low level, poor brand benefit and poor social reputation in China's vocational education, relevant institutions in developed countries can easily attract students with better economic conditions to study abroad by virtue of their strong resource advantages. Foreign high-quality educational resources have entered the school-running market in China, expanding domestic schools. This is another form of competition in the student market.

With its economic and cultural advantages, it will be an important choice for foreign institutions to cooperate with relevant universities or institutions with better domestic conditions. Similarly, with the expansion of school scale and the gradual improvement of social recognition, these institutions will become the first choice for students, thus greatly threatening the survival and development of vocational colleges and vocational training market in China. In the school-running market, the training market may have the greatest impact on China's vocational education. Because from the experience of educational cooperation among countries, adult education and vocational training will be the most important areas for countries to provide educational services.