President Xi Jinping has highlighted the importance of
accelerating the development of a modern vocational education system and
cultivating more high-caliber technical professionals as China moves
toward socialist modernization.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China
Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission,
underlined the promising future and greater potential of vocational
education in an instruction published on Tuesday.
He urged steady progress in developing undergraduate programs for
vocational education, building a group of top-notch vocational
institutions and programs, promoting the integration between vocational
and general education and making vocational education more adaptive.
It is important to adhere to the Party's leadership, follow the
correct path of running schools, persist in fostering virtues through
education and refine the orientation of vocational education, he said.
He called for steps to deepen the integration of vocational education
with industries, promote cooperation between colleges and businesses
and move forward with reform in training and schooling models, as well
as management and support mechanisms.
Party committees and government departments at various levels must
enhance institutional innovation and scale up policy support and
investment to give play to fine workmanship and lift the social status
of technical professionals, he said.
In doing so, strong talent and skills support can be provided for the
building of a modern socialist China and the realization of the Chinese
dream of national rejuvenation, he added.
Premier Li Keqiang said in an instruction that it is important to
focus on serving the nation's modernization drive and promoting
high-quality development in striving to develop a high-level technical
talent training system.
Aiming at the forefront of technological change and industrial
upgrading, more efforts are needed to attract more young people to
vocational education, Li said.
It is important to boost the competence of educators and educational
conditions, improve teaching materials and ways of teaching and explore
the development of an apprenticeship system with Chinese
characteristics, he said.
The instructions came as a national conference on vocational education was held in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday.
Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan said at the conference that the nation
should accelerate the development of a modern vocational education
system, bolster the quality of training and improve the treatment of
professional talents.
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