In recent years, China's secondary and higher vocational education have respectively provided education for about 5 million junior high school graduates each year.

According to the white paper, secondary and higher vocational education in China have in recent years annually provided about 5 million junior high school graduates and nearly 6 million eligible young people with opportunities to receive senior secondary and higher education, respectively. Each year, nearly 3 million families have their first-generation college students thanks to vocational education. At present, there are 9,151 secondary vocational schools, 1,554 higher vocational colleges, and 124 vocational undergraduate institutions nationwide, with 52 regular higher education institutions offering vocational undergraduate programs. Higher vocational colleges account for more than half of all higher education institutions in China and are an important component of Chinese higher education. By the end of 2025, the "Vocational Education Program Catalog" had established 19 major program categories, 97 program classes, and 1,491 programs, basically covering all fields of the national economy and fully covering 41 major industrial categories.