Less Developed Areas Of Western China Since The 1990s Vocational Education In Rural Areas

Vocational education, a vital part of national education system, is vocation-oriented and for all the people. Since late 1980s, the Chinese vocational education has come to a difficult period, especially, in the less-developed regions in the west. For these places, vocational education is intended for the village people and low income people in towns. They are the inferior class in the society. Therefore, they can hardly receive sufficient education when vocational education can not be fully developed, hence the social justice and fairness is influenced.Vocational education is in tight relation to the regional development of local society and economy. Doing research on regional vocational education can not only enrich the national vocational education theory,' but also guide the practical policy making. The thesis is on measures that should be taken to further develop vocational education in the less-developed areas in the west, according to the goals of setting up a modern vocational education system with the Chinese characteristic, which was from a decision made by the central government to boost vocational education. The thesis is based on the sample analysis of the present situation of Baoshan' s vocational education. And a comparison study was done on the provincial, even national development in the field. The thesis comes up with what has restrained the development of vocational...