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Abstract
The development of vocational and technical education in our country has been fast and extensive. The number of students in vocational and technical schools made up 7.6 percent of all students at the senior secondary school level in 1978. This figure rose to 32.3 percent in 1985, and reached 40 percent by 1987. In 1985, 62 percent of all students enrolled in Shanghai senior middle schools were enrolled in vocational and technical schools, and in some areas preliminary networks of vocational education were already being established.1 On the other hand, in the course of the development of vocational education several malpractices, such as "many mountain peaks" and "small and complete," have also become quite prominent. Many localities have invested blindly and duplicated courses, thereby spreading their human, material, and financial resources too thin, and reducing the return of investment in vocational education.