On The Problems Confronting The Sustainable Development Of Vocational Education In China And Solutions To Them

Content: Since the reform and opening, China has entered the middle stage of industrialization, the most crucial part of which is adjusting the industrial structure and upgrading industries. However, the fact that most of the employees lack necessary professional skills is a hard barrier for a better and healthier economy. In recent years, the booming "knowledge economy", depending mainly on high technology and talent resources, imposes an urgent requirement for multi-skill talents. Therefore, to develop professional education, especially higher vocational education emerges as the best choice to nurture millions of qualified workers and professionals.This paper analyses the problems confronting the higher vocational education from aspects—misconception, misunderstanding, lack of laws and regulations, difficulties in fund-raising and lack of features—and suggests solutions as: specializing purposes, forming quality-evaluating systems, associating middle & higher vocational education and regular& vocational education, reforming the mode of education to combine practice, learning and research, raising funds through more channels and bettering legal protecting systems.