Hui Li, Peng Chen, Wenzhe Zhou

Hui Li

March 31, 2025

Type education, Vocational education, Technical and skilled personnel, Talent training orientation.

As China's economic structure continues to optimize and the pace of industrial transformation and upgrading accelerates, high-quality development has become the main theme of economic growth, and the demand for highly skilled technical talents is increasingly urgent. Currently, due to biased social values and uneven educational quality, vocational education is often positioned as a subordinate to general education. However, from the perspectives of Multiple Intelligences Theory, Education Equity Theory, and Knowledge Production Theory, vocational education should be recognized as a distinct type, advancing alongside general education to jointly construct the modern educational system. Within the realm of higher education, vocational education needs to collaborate with research-oriented and applied technology-oriented education, implementing targeted strategies to meet the talent cultivation needs of modern industrial chain. Based on the horizontal differences among industrial chain job clusters and the vertical differences within job clusters, the professional settings and starting levels of vocational education should be scientifically planned, with clear definitions of cultivation orientations and standards for technical talents at different levels. This will provide a solid foundation of technical and skilled talents for the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation.

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