“大力发展职业教育,是全面提高劳动者素质,把我国巨大人口压力转化为人力资源优势的重要途径,对于繁荣经济、促进就业、消除贫困、维护稳定、实现和谐具有十分重要的意义。”2008年6月28日在天津召开的由教育部和天津市政府共同主办的2008年中国职业教育改革与发展高峰论坛上,教育部副部长赵沁平这样说。 “Vigorously developing vocational education is an important way to comprehensively improve the quality of laborers and turn our country’s huge population pressure into a human resources advantage. It is of great significance to economic prosperity, employment promotion, poverty eradication, maintaining stability and achieving harmony.” "Zhao Qinping, Vice Minister of Education, said at the 2008 China Vocational Education Reform and Development Forum co-hosted by the Ministry of Education and the Tianjin Municipal Government in Tianjin on June 28, 2008.