(Adopted at the 19th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on May 15, 1996, promulgated by Order No.69 of the President of the People's Republic of China on May 15, 1996)

Contents

　　Chapter I General Provisions

　　Chapter II The System of Vocational Education

　　Chapter III The Implementation of Vocational Education

　　Chapter IV The Guarantee of Vocational Education

　　Chapter V Supplementary Provisions

Chapter I General Provisions

　　Article 1 With a view to implementing the strategy of rejuvenating China through science and education, developing vocational education, enhancing the quality of laborers and promoting the construction of the socialist modernization, this Law is hereby enacted in accordance with the Education Law and the Labor Law.

　　Article 2 This Law shall apply to various vocational school education at various levels and vocational training in various forms. Special training conducted by state organs for their personnel shall be prescribed separately by laws and regulations.

　　Article 3 Vocational education is an important part of educational undertakings of the state and an important way to promote the economic and social development and the employment.

　　The state shall develop the vocational education, push the vocational education reform, raise the quality of vocational education, establish and improve a vocational education system that keeps abreast of the market economy and social progress.

　　Article 4 Vocational education shall follow the state's educational policy, giving the education receivers education on ideology, politics and vocational ethics, teaching vocational knowledge, developing vocational technical abilities, conducting vocational directions and raising the quality of the education receivers in an all-round way.

　　Article 5 Citizens shall have the right to receive vocational education.

　　Article 6 People's governments at various levels shall incorporate the development of vocational education into the planning of the national economy and social development.
Trade associations, enterprises and institutional organizations shall perform their duties to carry out vocational education in accordance with law.

　　Article 7 The state shall adopt measures to develop rural vocational education and support the minority nationality regions, remote border areas and poverty-stricken areas to develop their vocational education.

　　The state shall adopt measures to assist women in receiving vocational education, organize the unemployed to receive vocational education in various forms and give aid to the development of the vocational education for disabled people.

　　Article 8 Vocational education shall, in the light of actual needs and according to the vocational categories and vocational grade standards, adopt systems of academic credentials, training certifications and vocational credentials.

　　The state shall adopt a system under which workers shall receive necessary vocational education before taking up occupations or going to their posts.

　　Article 9 The state shall encourage and organize scientific research in vocational education.