高职院校是由地方财政支持、地方政府组织的高等职业学校。培养人才、社会服务与科学研究是高职院校的三大职能。高职院校只有在服务社会的过程中自身的价值才能真正的得到体现。在服务地方经济方面,高职院校主要的作用就是能够培养发展地方经济所需要的人才。本文通过高职院校需要服务地方经济哪些方面,具体服务途径有哪些,这两个方面,探究高职院校服务地方经济的途径,以期对高职院校的发展起到作用。 Higher vocational colleges are supported by local finance and are organized by local governments in higher vocational schools. Training talents, social services and scientific research are the three major functions of vocational colleges. Only in the process of serving the society can higher vocational colleges realize their own value truly. In the service of local economy, the main role of higher vocational colleges is to be able to train the personnel needed for developing a local economy. This article probes into the ways of higher vocational colleges to serve the local economy through the ways of higher vocational colleges that need to serve the local economy and the specific ways of service, so as to play an important role in the development of higher vocational colleges.