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The Importance and Significance of Vocational Education
The importance and significance of vocational education are as follows:

First, the importance of developing vocational education-improving the quality of workers.

The essence of vocational education is to educate people, improve the quality of the people and improve the status and competitiveness of the country in the international community. The most important thing in vocational education is to cultivate high-quality talents, change the traditional vocational education and establish an education system based on lifelong education, so that workers can have the ability to operate and learn, thus realizing lifelong development and laying a good foundation for national construction. The quality of workers is the overall quality of all people engaged in social labor in the whole country.

National construction needs not only leaders and outstanding talents with high education, high level and outstanding innovation ability, but also high-quality skilled talents and laborers, including migrant workers, workers and service personnel. Through their hard work, they have achieved social progress and economic take-off. The quality of workers plays an important role in the development of productive forces.

Second, the importance of developing vocational education-promoting employment.

Vocational education is not only to cultivate students' skills or specialties, but also to cultivate students' employment skills and development after employment. Under the requirement of improving students' employment competitiveness, the training goal of vocational colleges is to continuously improve students' employment ability, train students to master specific knowledge and skills that are competent for certain jobs, meet the post standards required by employers, and have the necessary work skills at work.

The employment guidance of vocational education can be roughly understood as follows: at present, a major problem facing social progress is employment. In the education system, the relationship between vocational education and economic development is the closest. Vocational education provides high-quality talents for the economy and society, and vocational education is employment-oriented education.

Vocational education not only pays attention to workers' employment skills, but also pays attention to workers' future career planning, which is of practical significance for alleviating employment pressure, adjusting workers' structural unemployment, improving students' employment skills and narrowing the differences between employed people and posts.

In order to promote the employed to find a good job, it is indispensable to develop vocational education on a large scale, which is conducive to enhancing the employment competitiveness of workers and broadening their employment channels. Through continuing education, improve the skills and comprehensive quality of workers and promote employment and re-employment. Vigorously developing vocational education is of great significance to building a harmonious society, building a well-off society in an all-round way and maintaining social stability.

Third, the importance of developing vocational education-taking the road of modern industrialization.

Accelerating the development of vocational education is an urgent need to promote the country's modern industrialization, carry forward the concept of vocational education and make vocational education better serve the development of modern industrialization. Social and economic development is closely related to vocational education, which further affects social competitiveness. The development of vocational education is economic, which determines that vocational education should consider the needs of the economy and serve the country's economic development and productivity improvement.

Vocational colleges need to decide which skills to train, which disciplines to offer, run characteristic schools, train highly skilled workers needed by society and accelerate the progress of enterprises on the road of new industrialization according to the needs of upgrading industrial structure and strategic mobilization of economic structure.