Abstract:

Promoting common prosperity in ethnic minority regions constitutes a critical task in advancing Chinese-style modernization and holds profound implications for the high-quality development of vocational education. The construction of a lifelong learning system and the acceleration of learning society building have emerged as new pathways through which vocational education can empower common prosperity in ethnic minority regions. The strategic value of vocational education in this process lies in upgrading regional industrial chains, facilitating the inheritance and innovation of ethnic cultures, and strengthening a shared sense of community among the Chinese nation. By advancing common prosperity through learning society building, vocational education operates through an internal mechanism characterized by three dimensions: consolidating the human capital foundation through the inclusiveness of “learning for all,” enhancing service provision efficiency through the accessibility of “learning everywhere,” and expanding individual development space through the diversity of “learning anytime.” Accordingly, vocational education needs to embrace a broad perspective centered on cross-sector integration and lifelong learning, improve a modern vocational education system that is vertically and horizontally interconnected with outcome equivalence, innovate practice-oriented educational models that integrate learning with industry and emphasize action-based approaches, and reshape a co-governance framework led by vocational education with the participation of multiple stakeholders.

Key words: ethnic minority regions, common prosperity, vocational education, lifelong learning system, learning society