Extended data:
Vocational education refers to an educational activity in which the educated have comprehensive qualities such as professional ethics, scientific culture, professional knowledge and technical skills required for a certain occupation or professional development.
Vocational education and general education are different types of education and have the same important position. They are an important part of the national education system and human resources development, and an important way to cultivate diversified talents, inherit technical skills, and promote employment and entrepreneurship. Vocational education is an important part of China's education system and a basic project to cultivate high-quality talents.
Vocational education includes vocational school education and vocational training. Vocational school education is academic education, which is divided into secondary vocational school education and higher vocational school education. Vocational training is non-academic education, including pre-job training, apprenticeship training, on-the-job training, re-employment training, entrepreneurship training and other vocational training.
The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents, socialist workers and socialist builders 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.
Basic definition
The state and the Ministry of Education have established the type status of vocational education. On June 20 19, the State Council issued the "Implementation Plan of National Vocational Education Reform", which clearly pointed out at the beginning that "vocational education and general education are two different types of education and have the same important position", and formally confirmed that vocational education is a separate type of education in China's education system.
On the one hand, this important orientation is a great theoretical contribution to vocational education, which makes it clear that vocational education is a type of education, not an educational level. It is of great strategic significance to correct the orientation of vocational education, give full play to its ability to serve the society and individual development, and promote the modernization of its governance system and governance capacity, which greatly enriches China's theory of vocational education with characteristics.
On the other hand, it has important policy orientation and practical significance, which clarifies the connection and difference between vocational education and general education, points out the development direction of vocational education, and is conducive to the vocational education system to clarify its own functions and functions, further explore and improve the unique school-running mode and talent training mode of vocational education, and better serve and support the national modernization.
Based on type education, firmly establish the important position of vocational education in the national talent training system, build a modern vocational education system, strengthen type characteristics, strengthen service development and promote employment, and constantly deepen the integration of production and education, school-enterprise cooperation, work-study integration and integration of knowledge and practice, thus embarking on a road of vocational education development with China characteristics.
On April 20, 2022, the 34th meeting of the 13th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) adopted the newly revised People's Republic of China (PRC) Vocational Education Law.