China News Service, May 24th. On the 24th, the Ministry of Education held the third "Education This Decade" and "1+1" series of press conferences.

Chen Ziji, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, said that in the past ten years, the vocational school system integrating "secondary vocational colleges - vocational colleges - vocational undergraduates" has been basically completed, the basic status of secondary vocational schools has been further consolidated, and the dominant position of junior colleges has been continuously strengthened. Vocational undergraduate education has developed steadily.

The newly revised "Vocational Education Law" sets up vocational undergraduate education majors for ordinary colleges and universities, and sets reserved space for vocational undergraduate education majors in vocational schools at the junior college level. Vocational school students can not only study junior colleges, but also go to undergraduate degrees. Vocational education is attractive. , the influence continues to increase.

  Chen Ziji introduced the achievements of the ten-year reform and development of vocational education at the press conference.

He said that in the past ten years, we have firmly grasped the historical opportunity period of great development and great reform, continuously opened our horizons, improved our position, and made overall plans to grasp the two dimensions of scale and connotation, and successively entered three interconnected, layer-by-layer steps. The big steps to enter:

  The first is to examine vocational education based on oneself, improve quality and cultivate excellence, add value and empower, and strive to strengthen with quality.

The second is to examine vocational education based on the entire education system, accelerate the construction of a modern vocational education system, and establish the orientation of type education.

The third is to examine vocational education based on economic and social development, and creatively put forward the strategic task of building a skilled society.

  Looking back at the past ten years, the reason why my country's vocational education has been able to continuously solidify its foundation, make up for shortcomings, strengthen its weaknesses, and enhance its advantages, and has achieved remarkable development, is not only due to the historical changes in my country's economic and social development in the new era, and the historical achievements it has achieved. It provides huge demand and solid conditions for the development of vocational education. It is also because the development of vocational education always regards building a complete system as the core task and the main line of logic, constantly innovating system design, increasing policy supply, and striving to build vocational education into a kind of economic development. Education with a specific function for social and individual development, an education with a broad base of needs, a type of education that is as important as general education.

It is embodied in seven aspects:

  The first is to actively serve economic and social development, and vocational education is more adaptable.

Facing the market and serving the industry are the basic functions of vocational education and the basic strategy to promote the development of vocational education.

Over the past ten years, we have taken the initiative to adapt to the adjustment of economic structure and industrial transformation, adjusted the professional catalog twice, and issued special plans such as the Guidelines for the Development of Manufacturing Talents. Highlight "special" on the directory structure.

At the same time, there are more than 5,000 professional locations related to "one old and one young".

  The second is to comprehensively deepen the integration of production and education, and the way of running vocational education is wider.

The integration of production and education and school-enterprise cooperation are the basic school-running model of vocational education and the most prominent school-running advantage of vocational education.

Over the past ten years, we have successively issued and implemented a series of policies such as "Several Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Industry and Education", "Implementation Measures for Building Industry-Education Integration Enterprises (Trial)" and "Measures for the Promotion of School-Enterprise Cooperation in Vocational Schools" to carry out modern apprenticeships, A series of pilot projects such as the integration of production and education in cities, establish and improve the school-running mechanism led by the government, industry guidance, and enterprise participation, encourage industry enterprises to fully participate in all aspects of education and teaching, promote the integration of production and education, and school-enterprise integration. School-enterprise cooperation has emerged. The diversified pattern has gradually formed a new situation of school-enterprise cooperation of professional co-construction, talent co-education, process co-management, resource sharing, and shared responsibility.

  Third, vocational education and general education are integrated with each other, and the path for students to grow is smoother.

Promoting the integration and penetration of general vocational education is a basic requirement for promoting a high-quality education system, as well as an objective requirement for providing fairer and higher-quality education.

We establish an open, inclusive and integrated concept of education, provide students with diverse choices and smooth channels for multi-path success at different growth stages, and promote the organic connection and coordinated development of vocational education and other types of education.

  On the one hand, it guides young people to establish the ambition to serve the country with skills. More than 4,500 vocational schools across the country support primary and secondary schools to carry out labor education practice and vocational enlightenment education, covering nearly 110,000 primary and secondary schools, with more than 15 million participants.

On the other hand, speed up the establishment of the "Vocational Education College Entrance Examination" system, improve the "cultural quality + vocational skills" test enrollment method, and provide more suitable diversified development opportunities for secondary vocational students and ordinary high school students.

  Fourth, vocational education at different levels is effectively integrated, and vocational school students are more developed.

The fundamental task of vocational education is to cultivate morality, help students grow and become talents, and let students in vocational schools "have a head start, a hope, and a head start".

In the past ten years, the vocational school system integrating "secondary vocational colleges-vocational colleges-vocational undergraduates" has been basically completed, the basic position of secondary vocational schools has been further consolidated, the main position of junior colleges has been continuously strengthened, and vocational undergraduate education has developed steadily.

The newly revised "Vocational Education Law" sets up vocational undergraduate education majors for ordinary colleges and universities, and sets reserved space for vocational undergraduate education majors in vocational schools at the junior college level. Vocational school students can not only study junior colleges, but also go to undergraduate degrees. Vocational education is attractive. , the influence continues to increase.

  Fifth, vocational schools pay equal attention to education and vocational training, and vocational education has a greater responsibility.

"Improving the vocational education and training system" is a clear requirement put forward by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Over the past ten years, we have promoted the implementation of the statutory responsibilities of "both academic education and training", and improved the modern vocational education system that places equal emphasis on academic education and training.

In 2021, higher vocational schools will enroll 5.57 million people, which is equivalent to 1.8 times of ten years ago; secondary vocational schools (excluding technical schools) will enroll 4.89 million people, and middle and higher vocational schools will train about 10 million high-quality technical and skilled talents every year.

At the same time, the state has successively issued the Action Plan for Vocational Skills Improvement (2019-2021) and the Action Plan for Comprehensive Vocational Training in Vocational Colleges to Promote Employment and Entrepreneurship, and launched the pilot program of the "1+X" certificate system.

At present, more than 10,000 vocational schools across the country carry out various types of training for hundreds of millions of people every year. Among the higher vocational colleges that carry out training services for new professional farmers, 141 schools have an annual training volume of more than 5,000 people per day, and 86 schools have annual training The number of people per day exceeds 10,000, and the vocational education school-running pattern that pays equal attention to both academic education and training has basically taken shape.

  The sixth is to serve the lifelong learning of the whole people, and the form of vocational education will be more lively.

Vocational education is a lifelong education for everyone and an important pillar of the lifelong learning system for the whole people.

We always insist that everyone can be talented and create conditions for everyone to develop their talents.

In the past ten years, vocational education has been empowered by digitalization, constantly expanding the space for running schools, and actively connecting with continuing education and general education.

In December this year, the National Vocational Education Smart Education Platform was officially launched, covering 19 categories, 396 higher vocational majors, bringing together more than 660 professional teaching resource banks, more than 1,000 online high-quality courses and more than 2,000 open video courses, and 420 More than 10,000 videos, pictures, Wendang and other granular resources provide sufficient digital resources for national learning.

Continuing education has continuously improved the resource supply and service mechanism. A total of 1,891 colleges and universities across the country have held continuing education for academic qualifications. The number of students in higher education accounts for 46.8% of the number of students in higher education.

Vigorously promote the construction of community education and education for the elderly, determine 129 national community education experimental areas and 120 demonstration areas, and build 30 open universities for the elderly and specialized institutions for elderly education.

  Seventh, to serve the "Belt and Road" initiative, the level of vocational education is higher.

To run vocational education in the new era well, we must not only unswervingly follow the development path of vocational education with Chinese characteristics, but also learn from others' strengths, integrate Chinese and foreign countries, learn from and absorb good practices and good experiences, accelerate institutional innovation, and reshape comparative advantages.

  He said that in the past ten years, my country has continuously achieved "re-improvement" in "bringing in" and "going out", establishing stable contacts with more than 70 countries and international organizations, and countries along the "Belt and Road" have become the main source of students for my country to recruit international students The main agglomeration of local and overseas schools.

The multi-coordinated training model and management norms have been gradually formed.

At present, more than 400 higher vocational colleges and foreign educational institutions have cooperated in running schools, and the number of full-time international students in China has reached 17,000.

In 2019, 13 higher vocational colleges cooperated with China Nonferrous Metals Mining Group Co., Ltd. to independently hold the first overseas higher vocational and technical college to carry out academic education - China-Zambia Vocational and Technical College, and 5 teaching standards became the teaching of vocational education in Zambia. standard.

20 "Luban workshops" have been established in 19 overseas countries, and the construction staff of "Luban workshops" in Thailand were awarded the "Princess Sirindhorn Memorial Medal".

In more than 40 countries and regions, the "Chinese + Vocational Education" special project has been carried out to provide vocational education training and employment development opportunities for students from all countries.