Vocational education refers to the education of professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics necessary for the educated to engage in a certain occupation or productive labor, including vocational school education and vocational training. Vocational school education is academic education, which is divided into primary, secondary and higher vocational school education. At present, the goal of China's vocational education is to improve the vocational education and training system, deepen the integration of production and education and school-enterprise cooperation. Accelerate the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines and realize the connotative development of higher education. Improve the student financial aid system, so that the vast majority of new urban and rural laborers can receive high school education and more higher education.

Vocational education is employment-oriented education, which is oriented to the development needs of enterprises and cultivates practical and skilled talents who can meet the needs of enterprises.

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.