Vocational education refers to the education that instructs the educated to acquire the professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics needed by a certain occupation or productive labor. Such as pre-job training for employees, re-employment training for laid-off workers, vocational high schools, technical secondary schools, technical schools and other vocational schools. All belong to vocational education. The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents and workers with a certain cultural level and professional knowledge and skills. Compared with general education and adult education, vocational education pays more attention to the cultivation of practical skills and practical work ability.
Vocational education is the product of social development, the development of human civilization and the development of human beings. But also the product of a special period of development. Vocational education benefits from society, and society can also benefit from vocational education. Promoting social development is the proper meaning and sacred duty of vocational education.
The purpose of vocational education is to meet the employment needs of individuals and the objective needs of posts, so as to promote the development of social productive forces and accelerate the adjustment and transformation of national industrial structure.