Research on the Practical Path of Vocational Education Adapting to New-quality Productive Forces

With the accelerated evolution of the global technological revolution and industrial transformation, new-quality productive forces characterized by digitization, intelligence, and greenness have become a key force in reshaping the economic landscape. The report of the 20th National Congress of China clearly states the need to “focus on improving total factor productivity and enhancing the resilience and security of industrial and supply chains,” which poses urgent requirements for vocational education to serve national strategies and cultivate high-quality technical and skilled talents. Currently, vocational education in China faces practical challenges such as prominent structural contradictions, inadequate industry-education integration, and lagging digital transformation. Based on the connotations and characteristics of new-quality productive forces and combined with the typological orientation of vocational education, this paper systematically analyzes the adaptive transformation path of vocational education from dimensions including specialty construction, curriculum reform, industry-education integration, and faculty development. It aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for constructing a modern vocational education system compatible with the development of new-quality productive forces.