自1980年开始,为适应四个现代化建设对高教各层次人才的需要,国家在武汉、南京、合肥等大中城市开始试办以走读、自费、不包分配、择优推荐为主要特征的专科层次(2~3年)短期职业大学。本文根据历史当事人的回忆,记述了全国首批短期职业大学的建立过程以及短期职业大学的建立对我国高职教育发展的影响。 Since 1980, in order to meet the needs of the four modernizations for talent at all levels of higher education, the state began to pilot the specialties with the main features of study, self-financing, non-distribution, and preferential recommendation in large and medium-sized cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and Hefei (2-3 years) short-term vocational college. Based on the memories of historical parties, this article describes the establishment of the first batch of short-term vocational colleges and the influence of the establishment of short-term vocational colleges on the development of our higher vocational education.