Vocational education is an important part of modern national education system.
It has a special and important position in implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through talents. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to the development of vocational education. Since the reform and opening up, especially in recent years, they have actively promoted the development of vocational education and supported vocational education at all levels to achieve its own characteristics and level. Various regions and many enterprises have actively explored and accumulated a lot of experience. But on the whole, the development of vocational education is still a weak link, which does not meet the needs of economic and social development. Vigorously developing vocational education is both an urgent task and a long-term solution. At present, China's employment and economic development are facing two major changes. The employment of social labor force needs to strengthen skills training, and the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure needs to train more senior technicians. We should proceed from the overall situation of national modernization and deeply understand the importance and urgency of strengthening vocational education.
2. Vigorously developing vocational education is an urgent need to promote China's industrialization and modernization.
Basically realizing industrialization, vigorously promoting informatization and speeding up modernization are the strategic tasks of China's economic and social development in the first 20 years of this century. Insist on promoting industrialization by informationization and promoting informationization by industrialization, and embark on a new road of industrialization with high scientific and technological content, good economic benefits, low resource consumption, less environmental pollution and full play to the advantages of human resources; Promoting the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, changing the mode of economic growth, improving the ability of independent innovation and constantly improving the level of modernization have put forward new and higher requirements for the structure and quality of human resources in China.
All walks of life in the national economy need not only a large number of scientists, engineers and management talents, but also tens of millions of highly skilled talents and hundreds of millions of high-quality workers. Without such a highly skilled and specialized labor force, even advanced science and technology and machinery and equipment can hardly be transformed into realistic productivity. At present, the problem of low quality of front-line workers and shortage of skilled talents in China is very prominent. Skilled workers only account for about 1/3 of the total number of workers, and most of them are junior workers, and technicians and senior technicians only account for 4%. Judging from the coastal areas with relatively developed manufacturing industries, the shortage of skilled workers has become a prominent factor restricting industrial upgrading.
China is a manufacturing power, and its industrial added value ranks fourth in the world, but it is not a manufacturing power. There is still a big gap between China and developed countries in manufacturing technology and management level. The main problems are unreasonable industrial structure, weak technological innovation ability, low-end products, low added value, large resource consumption and many accidents in production safety, which are closely related to the low technical quality of employees and the lack of high-skilled talents. With the deepening of economic globalization and the accelerated adjustment and reorganization of the international industrial structure, we should seize the opportunity to improve the level of China's manufacturing industry and make "Made in China" truly competitive in the international market. This must start from the source, pay more attention to and accelerate the development of vocational education, and comprehensively improve the overall quality of human resources.
3. Vigorously developing vocational education is an important way to promote social employment and solve the problems of agriculture, countryside and farmers.
A large population and a large labor force, especially farmers, are our basic national conditions. Employment is a big problem that cannot be avoided and must be solved in China. At present, about 24 million urban laborers need employment every year, and a large number of rural surplus laborers need to be transferred. To promote social employment, we must develop vocational education and generally improve the employment and entrepreneurial ability of urban and rural labor force. To adapt to the changes in the demand for labor force due to economic and social development, we should take the development of various forms of vocational education as an important measure to promote urban employment. In particular, it is necessary to strengthen the skills training of new laborers and laid-off workers and improve the employment rate in cities and towns.
To solve the problems of agriculture, countryside and farmers, we must coordinate urban and rural areas. On the one hand, it is necessary to guide rural surplus labor to transfer employment to non-agricultural industries and cities and towns, and promote industrialization and urbanization; On the other hand, we should vigorously develop modern agriculture and promote the construction of new socialist countryside. All these require strengthening vocational education and improving the overall quality of rural labor force. At present, China's rural labor force has a low overall cultural level and lacks vocational skills. While popularizing nine-year compulsory education in rural areas, it is also a major strategic task for China's modernization drive to vigorously develop vocational education and skills training to make farmers adapt to the requirements of industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization.
4. Vigorously developing vocational education is also an inevitable requirement to improve the modern national education system.
What we call vocational education is a general term, including both technical education and technical training, including both vocational education and vocational training, including both secondary vocational education and higher vocational education. Developing vocational education is the inherent requirement of the law of educational development in China. Basic education, vocational education and higher education should be placed in the same important position, with overall consideration and coordinated development. These three aspects complement each other and together constitute the modern national education system in China. In the past, we paid more attention to basic education and higher education, which is necessary and should be done in the future. In recent years, we have realized more and more clearly that we must attach equal importance to the development of vocational education.
Therefore, the reason why China should vigorously develop vocational education is because in the new international environment, China can only persist in rejuvenating the country through science and education, and on the basis of implementing Scientific Outlook on Development, we should closely combine accelerating the development of vocational education, especially secondary vocational education, with economic prosperity, promoting employment, eliminating poverty, maintaining stability and building advanced culture, enhance the sense of urgency and mission, and take effective measures to vigorously promote the rapid and healthy development of vocational education. Only by constantly promoting China's economic growth and improving China's scientific and technological level can we better adapt to the international environment and become a world power. Therefore, vigorously developing vocational education is of great significance to China's social and economic development.
Vigorously developing vocational education and speeding up the development of human resources are important measures to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through talents, promote China to take a new road of industrialization, solve the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and promote employment and reemployment; It is an important way to improve the national quality in an all-round way, turn China's huge population pressure into human resource advantage, enhance China's comprehensive national strength and build a harmonious society; It is an inevitable requirement to implement the party's educational policy, follow the laws of education and realize the comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of education. I hope my answer can help you, thank you!