On October 17, the “World Framework for Vocational and Technical Education Standards” was jointly released by 45 countries at the closing ceremony of the 2026 World Conference on the Development of Vocational and Technical Education. The agreement will promote economic prosperity and social progress, the all-round development of service workers, broaden social fairness channels, deepen mutual learning of vocational skills, and actively address future challenges as a common value pursuit in vocational education; advocate improving the vocational school system, building a national lifelong education and training system, collaborating with industry and education to build textbooks, school-enterprise cooperation to build a teaching force, carry out internship training according to actual job requirements, and artificial intelligence to empower education and teaching reforms; propose corresponding governance, guarantees, and action paths. The “Beijing Agreement” is the first international vocational education standard that China has taken the lead in promoting development.

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