Vocational education institutions supplied more than 70 percent of China's newly employed frontline workers in modern manufacturing, strategic and emerging industries, and modern services in the past five years, according to the Ministry of Education.
Roughly 10 million technical and skilled personnel have been trained each year by the country's vocational colleges and schools, which offer programs in more than 1,200 specialties, according to figures on vocational education during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020) released by the ministry at a press conference Tuesday.