A few days ago, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other nine departments jointly issued the Action Plan for Improving the Quality of Vocational Education (2020? In 2023), secondary vocational graduates are encouraged to apply for higher vocational education through the higher vocational classification examination. Promote all localities to incorporate technical schools into the unified enrollment platform for vocational education. Encourage retired soldiers, laid-off workers, migrant workers, quality farmers and other groups to apply for higher vocational schools. You can skip the cultural quality test and only take the vocational adaptability test or vocational skill test organized by the school and related to the major you are applying for. Related news has been released, and many netizens are discussing it online. Does this mean that there is a shortage of senior technicians in China? Actually, yes.

First, although there is a surplus of labor force in China, there is a shortage of middle and senior technical talents, because the establishment of vocational high schools is essentially to train grass-roots talents who master advanced technology for the country and improve the shortcomings of Chinese enterprises in grass-roots technology. The answer is actually obvious. China does lack a large number of middle and senior technicians. Although there are some surplus labors in China, which refers to low-level skilled workers, it does not mean that there are surplus middle and senior technicians in China. Many enterprises need middle and senior welders, fitters and electricians, but these talents are difficult for enterprises to meet. Sometimes even if they have some, they will soon lose them, because there will be some other enterprises. According to relevant statistics, 43% of enterprises have a surplus of junior workers and a shortage of middle and senior workers, and this trend is on the rise.

Second, the current social education does not attach importance to middle and senior skilled workers, resulting in a lack of talents. The development of the times is inseparable from technology, which needs talents to embody. Since liberation, China has attached great importance to the training of relevant technical personnel. However, with the development of the times, many technical jobs have become irrelevant. Actually, this is normal. If you go to the street for random interviews and ask parents about their children's future career plans, many parents will say scientists, artists, doctors, teachers and so on. Without thinking. The children's answer is the same. No parent or child will say that he wants to be a worker when he grows up. Even if some of them enter the factory in the future, they will try their best to leave because they are educated that the workers in the factory have no future. Under the influence of this awareness, many people are unwilling to be workers, which naturally makes middle and senior skilled workers scarce.

The development of a country only needs all kinds of talents, and a product needs the participation of technical talents from design to factory. Without a large number of technical talents, the development of the country and the take-off of the nation will only become empty talk. Therefore, the purpose of formulating this action plan is to train a large number of outstanding senior technical talents for the country and find a new way out for some people.