世纪之交,我国的高等职业教育实现了历史性的跨越式发展,培养了数百万的技术应用性人才,为工业化、信息化和现代化建设做出了重要贡献。高等职业教育作为高等教育发展中的一个类型,肩负着大批量培养高素质技能型专门人才的使命,在我国走新型工业化道路和社会主义新农村建设中具有不可替代的重要作用。面向未来,我国要从人力资源大国走向人力资源强国,建设创新型国家,要求高等职业教育的人才培养质量进一步提高,服务经济社会的能力进一步增强。回顾近年来高等职业教育快速发展的一个重要经验,就在于高等职业教育具有区别于其他类型高等教育的特色。从这个意义上讲,特色就是生命,就 At the turn of the century, China’s higher vocational education has achieved a historic leapfrog development and trained millions of skilled personnel in technology applications, making important contributions to industrialization, informationization and modernization. Higher vocational education, as a type in the development of higher education, shoulders the mission of training high-quality skilled professionals in large numbers, plays an irreplaceable important role in our country’s taking a new path of industrialization and building a new socialist countryside. In the future, our country should shift from a large human resources country to a powerful human resources country and build an innovative country. We should further improve the quality of personnel training in higher vocational education and further enhance our ability to serve the economy and society. Reviewing the important experience of the rapid development of higher vocational education in recent years lies in that higher vocational education has its own distinguishing characteristics from other types of higher education. In this sense, the characteristic is life