Exploring the Path of Cultivating High-Quality Talents in Higher Vocational Education under the Threshold of Informatization

The emergence of new-generation technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things is driving limitations on the great depth and breadth of talent for skilled and technological needs to new heights. The transformation and upgrading of industries are changing the employment market structure in fundamental ways, and require skilled compound talents with digitalized literacy, innovation capabilities and cross-boundary practice faculties. Higher vocational education, which is the main base for cultivating skilled talents, is faced with an epoch-long proposition, in the wave of informatization, to boost the quality of talent cultivation. Examining the current situation, Higher vocational education still continues to lean on traditional cultivation models that do not seem capable of meeting new demands or providing new solutions to new challenges. It is time to analyze informatization's capacity to enable higher vocational education, and investigate the transitional pathway for high-quality talent cultivation, the foundation for addressing national strategic requirements and contributing to socio-economic development.