International Journal of Education

On the journey towards common prosperity, vocational education faces dual challenges in helping China expand its middle-income group: instability within the middle-income group and a wide social gap between the rich and the poor. Looking back on history, Chinas vocational education has accumulated certain experiential advantages in expanding the middle-income group: promoting social stability through educational equity, driving high-quality employment through the integration of industry and education, facilitating social vertical mobility through technology empowerment, and narrowing the gap between dual labor markets through vocational and technical training. In the era of striving for common prosperity, vocational education should leverage its unique advantages, focus on developing vocational and technical training and lifelong education, vigorously develop rural vocational education, promote a vocational education culture that values morality and skills, and promote the material and spiritual prosperity of the middle-income group. These efforts will consolidate and expand the middle-income group, contributing to a stable social structure.

Common prosperity; Vocational education; Middle-income group; Expansion; Path