A Study On The Development Mode Of Agriculture Vocational Education In China

China is a large agricultural country. agriculture vocational education is the key factor toaffect the development of agriculture and rural economy, and the improvement of farmers'quality. since the reform and opening up, especially since the middle of1980s, agriculturevocational education realizes the leaping development, which has changed a lot indevelopment scale, structure system, and infrastructure ability. agriculture vocationaleducation should explore new development mode when meet the increasing needs of societyat the same time in order to better service the rural economic and social development.Therefore, further researching the developing mode of agriculture vocational education is ofgreat significance for the sustainable development of agricultural professional education.On the basis of reviewing the relative literatures in home and abroad, this paper firstlyexpounded the three developing stages and analyzed the present situation and main problemsexisting in the developing process of agricultural vocational education combining with themacro and micro survey data statistics. Then this paper evaluated the efficiency of Chineseagricultural vocational education during2004and2008based on DEA-Malmquist indexmethod; due to the regional imbalance, this paper put forward the suitable developing modefor different areas on the basis of summarizing the existed developing mode of agriculturalvocational education in China and using the developing experiences in abroad for references. Atlast, this paper analyzed the essential conditions to keep the developing mode of agriculturevocational education running normally.The main researching results are as follows:Since the founding of New China, agriculture vocational education has experiencedthree developing periods whose developing environment and characteristic also are differentand each has different developing stage. The factors which promoted the development ofagriculture vocational education are government policy, the level of economic development,social transformation, cultural values and education own.According to the microscopic survey data in Shaanxi province, this paper empiricallyanalyzes the demand and influencing factors of agriculture vocational education. And theresults of the analysis showed that the training demands of farmers focus on practicaltechnical training in agriculture and the factors influences farmers to participate in agriculture vocational education are training time, training benefits and family income. But the demandof subsequent farmer's trend to non-agricultural transfer training and the main factors,influenced subsequent farmers to participate in agriculture vocational education, are familyincome and whether they can obtain the professional qualification certificate and diploma.From the present situation of agriculture vocational education, we can see thatagriculture vocational education has developed greatly on the aspects of scale scale of runningschool, organization system and basic ability construction under the national policy supports.However, there are still many problems existed in agriculture vocational education, such asthe effective supply is not enough, the system structure is unreasonable, input mechanism isnot sound, the thought idea is obsolete and supervision ensures mechanism is imperfect, etc.How to evaluate the developing quality of agriculture vocational education in China,which obtained a large amount of fiscal and policy support, has become to be a key problemin the field of agriculture vocational education need to be solved. This paper evaluates theefficiency of Chinese Agricultural Vocational Education based on former educational studiesthrough DEA-Malmquist index method. The empirical results shows that the efficiency ofChinese Agricultural Vocational Education haven't obvious rules and fluctuated greatlyduring2004and2008;the efficiency changes of agriculture vocational education depends onthe production efficiency changes,in which the scale efficiency takes the main place; theefficiency increase of agriculture vocational education is shown obvious regional differences,in which the factor productivity in central section is the highest, the east takes the secondplace and the western is the lowest.In order to improve the agricultural productivity and the quality of agricultural laborers,governments around the world have attached great importance to agriculture vocationaleducation. Owing to the differences in historical cultural background, political system,economic development level, each country has created many unique model in the process ofdeveloping agriculture vocational. Through comparing the typical developing mode inadvanced countries and developing countries, this paper summarized their same developmentexperiences, which can give a lot of very important reference value and significance for thedevelopment of agriculture vocational education in China.Different mode of agriculture vocational education need different operating conditions,but there must be some essential conditions to keep the mode of agriculture vocationaleducation running normally whatever what kind of developing mode. The essential conditionscan proposed from the aspects of external development environment and internal operationmechanism.