Yanbian Area Secondary Vocational Education And Regional Economic Development

The middle level vocational education is one of the most importantpart of modern education. Meanwhile, it is a significant support ofnational industrialization and the development of productivity and themodernization of the nation. Among the whole education industry, it hasthe most direct and closest relationship with the development of thesociety and economy, and it is an educational channel that services thenational economy development straighter. Based on the compulsoryeducation, it is a higher level education to develop skilled workers andtechnical experts, which has special characters of nationalities.Especially for the improvement of territorial economy, the middle levelvocational education shows its uninsteadable function obviously.Now, Yanbian area is experiencing the key period of the15th-5-year-plan, which is the most important period for constructing themiddle-class family society. Led by the view of science developing, toenforce the base of the new industry, to start by the item constructing,enhancing the economy-developing and society-developing, which mustprovide the unprecedented chance for the occupation education. Butaffected by recruiting students of colleges to enlarge the senior highschool, by the market needing high school ages and lower level ofeconomy's not holding so many talents, and affected by the traditionalthought of neglecting the vocation education, the vocation education mustface the more serous challenges, which will make it worse and worse.In this article, on the base of education theory, educationaleconomics and professional education theory it applied the researchmethods including literature law, historical law, questionnaire surveyand interview survey, reviewed and concluded development history of themiddle level vocational education in Yanbian area, deeply discussed theinter relationship and coordinational situation bewteen the area's middlelevel vocational education and its economy development, explained the keyrole the middle level vocational professional played in the area'seconomy and social development. The result of the survey showed there are several problems are existing in Yanbian area's middle level vocationaleducation. These includes: insufficient resources of new students, thedifficult of new student recruitment, the insufficient educationalcapital investment, short of experiment labs and fields, the weak teacherforces ability and educational capital, deficient in "doule teachingmodel" teachers, the set up of the subjects were unreasonable, thedifficulty in new subject implementation and the graduetes of thevocational school can not meet the requirements of the area's economicdevelopment. generally speaking, the middle level vocational educationin Yanbian area has not really set into a territorial developing formation,cac not coordinate well with territorial economy development. In the end,this article suggests several advices and strategies regarding theimprovement of Yanbian Area's middle level vocational education thatrelated and coornidated closely with the area's economy development.Such as: to transfer the concept to set up the new system. according theneed of the district economy and the market, to arrange scientificspecialties. Try to enforce several ways of running schools. Confine thescience, economy and education, to train the persons under the needingof the firm. Based on the high quality, to arrange the characteristicspecialty. To train the higher teachers. To make the students get twoharmonious certificates.