Chinese higher vocational colleges (including vocational undergraduate) enrolled 5.461 million students last year, exceeding the scale of general undergraduate enrollment for four consecutive years.

According to the surging news report, the Ministry of Education of China held a press conference on Thursday (March 23) to introduce the basic situation of the development of education in 2022 and announce the above data at the meeting.

Lin Yu, deputy director of the Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of the Ministry of Education of China, introduced at the meeting that at present, the focus of the development of secondary vocational education and higher vocational education is to strengthen the construction of connotation, improve the quality and adaptability of cultivation and adaptability, Then to enhance attraction and social image, enrich the diversity of the national education system, and cultivate more high -quality technical skills talents, ingenious craftsmen, and great artisans for comprehensively building a socialist modern country.

Lin Yu said that from the perspective of student development, China insists on expanding the development channel of vocational school students.According to the needs of industrial upgrading and adjustment and the increase in the education period of new labor force in society, gradually guide secondary vocational education on the basis of adhering to the requirements of vocational education talent training, through high vocational schools, high schools, and high schools.Students with enough willingness provide a variety of employment and development paths.

Lin Yu said that last year, more than half of China ’s vocational graduates were promoted to higher vocational (college) and undergraduate continued learning.Similarly, while maintaining a high employment rate, higher vocational graduates now have nearly 1/5 of students every year to achieve further studies.From the perspective of vocational Putong, China's promotion of vocational education and the infiltration of ordinary education in various sections, and promoting the two types of education to achieve communication and integration and development on the basis of the various systems.

The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the opinions on promoting the high -quality development of modern vocational education in 2021, and encouraged listed companies and industry leading enterprises to organize vocational education; explore the apprenticeship system with Chinese characteristics, vigorously cultivate technologySkills.The opinions were put forward that by 2035, the overall level of vocational education in China entered the forefront of the world, and a skill -type society would be basically completed.The social status of technical and skills talents has been greatly improved, and the supply of vocational education and the needs of economic and social development is highly matched, and the role of comprehensively building socialist modern countries has increased significantly.