New productive forces are advanced productive forces that break free from traditional economic growth methods and development paths, and conform to the new development concept. Cultivating and developing new quality productive forces requires strengthening vocational education, creating a new workforce, especially applied talents who are proficient in mastering new quality production materials. Vocational education refers to the education implemented to cultivate high-quality technical and skilled talents, enabling learners to possess the comprehensive professional qualities and action abilities required for engaging in a certain profession or achieving career development, such as professional ethics, scientific culture, professional knowledge, technical skills, etc. Strengthening vocational education is of great significance for building a new workforce. To adapt to the new situation of the deepening development of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, scientifically analyze the development trend of human resources, vigorously develop vocational education, cultivate more high-quality technical and skilled talents, great country craftsmen, and skilled craftsmen, and provide strong talent support for the development of new quality productive forces. Highlight the characteristics of vocational education. Vocational education is an important component of the national education system and human resource development, shouldering important responsibilities such as cultivating diverse talents and inheriting technical skills. Faced with the new trends of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the cultivation of high-quality technical and skilled talents is becoming more urgent, and the strategic value of vocational education is becoming more prominent. We need to coordinate the development of vocational education and general education, and promote the vertical integration of vocational education at different levels. Highlight the characteristics of vocational education, design an integrated talent training system for vocational education, and promote the connection of professional settings, training objectives, curriculum systems, and training programs at all levels of vocational education. Vigorously improve the quality of secondary vocational education and optimize the layout structure; Steadily developing vocational undergraduate education and constructing vocational undergraduate schools and majors with high standards. Establish a two-way comparison and recognition system for vocational qualifications, vocational skill levels, and corresponding professional titles and educational qualifications, promote mutual recognition of academic education learning outcomes, non academic education learning outcomes, and vocational skill level credit conversion, and establish a national qualification framework. Strengthen school enterprise cooperation in education. School enterprise cooperation can effectively break down the information barriers between students and enterprises, allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the current development status of enterprises, understand the role and potential of positions, enhance their sense of identification with job positions, and also help enterprises cultivate and select outstanding talents in advance. It can promote vocational schools to establish internship and training bases in enterprises, and enterprises to build training and training bases in vocational schools. Encourage and guide vocational schools to actively attract industry leading enterprises to deeply participate in vocational education professional planning, curriculum design, textbook development, teaching design, and teaching implementation, cooperate and jointly build new majors, develop new courses, and carry out order training. We will comprehensively promote the new apprenticeship system for all types of enterprises, promote the training of skilled talents in enterprises, strengthen the development of industrial workers, and cultivate a group of applied talents who can proficiently apply new production materials for new industries, new formats, and new models in accordance with the principles of government guidance, enterprise centeredness, and college participation. Deepen the integration of industry and education. Deepening the integration of industry and education, promoting the organic connection between the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain, is of great significance for cultivating a new workforce. We should focus on developing new productive forces, closely connect with the trend of industrial upgrading and technological change around national major strategies, prioritize the development of a number of emerging specialties required by advanced manufacturing, new energy, new materials, modern agriculture, modern information technology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence and other industries, transform and upgrade a number of traditional majors such as steel metallurgy, chemical medicine, construction engineering, and light textile manufacturing, encourage schools to open more scarce majors that meet market demand, and form a professional system closely connected with the industrial chain and innovation chain. According to the overall national regional development strategy and main functional area planning, optimize the layout of vocational education, with cities as nodes, industries as fulcrums, and enterprises as the focus, guide vocational education resources to gradually concentrate in industrial and population gathering areas. (Lai Xin She)