Secondary vocational schools are schools that implement secondary vocational education (vocational high schools/technical secondary schools/technical schools), and students have technical secondary education when they graduate. The enrollment targets are junior high school graduates and junior high school equivalent. The basic education system is three years. Secondary vocational education is the vocational education carried out in the stage of high school education, including some post-high school vocational training, and it is the main body of vocational education in China at present. Its orientation is to cultivate a large number of skilled talents and high-quality workers on the basis of compulsory education.

Nine-year compulsory education generally refers to compulsory education

Compulsory education is a national education that all school-age children and adolescents must accept, and the state, society and families must guarantee it according to the Constitution. Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time in accordance with the provisions of the law. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, public welfare and popularization. The period of compulsory education stipulated in China's Compulsory Education Law is nine years (six years in primary school, three years in junior high school, five years in primary school and four years in junior high school in some provinces and cities), which is in line with China's basic national conditions and is appropriate.