| The "Made in China 2025" strategy and global economic integration makes the manufacturing industry face many opportunities as well as the challenges of industrial upgrading and transformation.As a result,the demand for talent is gradually becoming higher and more diversified.In this context,the important responsibility of higher vocational education is to train high-skilled Talents for the development of industries and the progress of society.In the State Council Conference on Vocational Education,it was also pointed out that in developing students’ vocational abilities,emphasis should be placed on the development of core competencies,professional competencies and comprehensive competencies,and the role of "accumulation of technical skills" should be strengthened.In addition to the basic skills required for the job,core professional qualities such as creativity and learning ability are required to adapt to the ever-changing society.Even though the scale of higher vocational colleges has been expanding in recent years and a large number of high-skilled talents have been cultivated,the contradiction of "difficult employment" of higher vocational graduates and "labor shortage" of manufacturing enterprises still exists.The main reason is that the higher vocational colleges and universities are not effective in cultivating vocational core literacy.Occupational core literacy has different definitions in different occupations and different contexts.First,based on the definition of occupational core literacy,this paper also combines theory of Person-Vocation Fit,Hypothesis Theory of Human Nature,theory of All-Around Development and Development Theory of Occupational Aspirations,to define occupational core literacy in manufacturing industry,and also to point out its characteristics and contents.second,this paper adopts the questionnaire survey method.Next,this paper adopts the questionnaire survey method.Through questionnaire surveys and interviews with teachers and students in higher vocational colleges and several manufacturing enterprises,this paper summarizes the vocational core literacy that students in higher vocational colleges lack at present,and also points out the current deficiencies in vocational core literacy of higher vocational students from the perspective of enterprises.By analyzing and organizing the results of the questionnaire,this paper analyzes the current deficiencies in the cultivation of vocational core literacy in China’s higher vocational colleges at three levels: students,higher vocational colleges and enterprises and the state.For students,Students are lack of self-identity and lack of career planning.For higher vocational colleges,overemphasize theory and underestimate practice.There is also a low degree of integration between industry and education,unreasonable curriculum and imperfection in the evaluation system and guarantee system.For enterprises and the state,in the integration of industry and education,enterprises are not highly motivated,while the funding mechanism is imperfect.Third,this paper analyzes in depth and is inspired by the vocational education models of countries with more developed manufacturing industries,such as Germany and the United States,through the comparative analysis method.The excellent experiences of these countries in teaching mode,integration of industry and education,social environment and career values are worthy of our reference.Finally,based on reflecting on the current situations and shortcomings of students’ vocational core cultivation in higher vocational institutions,this paper proposes several optimization paths.For students,they should improve the self-cognitive ability and make scientific career planning.For school,Schools should pay real attention to the cultivation of vocational core literacy and add it to the school’s development plan,develop it in a planned manner,and clarify the responsibilities and functions of the main body.Meanwhile,schools should optimize the system of vocational core literacy cultivation,promote further integration of industry and education,improve the curriculum as well as build a reasonable evaluation system.For enterprises and the state,we should strengthen institutional protection and create an equal and fair employment environment,while improving the status of manufacturing workers.Figure [12] table [2] reference [47]... |