45 countries released the first international vocational education standard "Beijing Agreement"

China News Service, Tianjin, October 17 (Reporter Zhou Yaqiang) 45 countries jointly released the "World Vocational and Technical Education Standards Framework" ("Beijing Agreement") in Tianjin on the 17th. This is the first international vocational education standard that China has taken the lead in promoting and developing.

The agreement was released at the 2026 World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference. It took more than a year to develop the text. It inherits and deepens the core concepts of the "Tianjin Initiative" in 2022 and the "Tianjin Consensus" in 2024, and establishes a standard framework in terms of value, system, governance, guarantee, and action.

The agreement will promote economic prosperity and social progress, serve the all-round development of people, broaden channels for social equity, deepen mutual learning and mutual learning of vocational skills, and actively respond to future challenges as the common value pursuit of vocational education.

Focusing on talent cultivation, the agreement proposed to improve the vocational school running system, build a lifelong education and training system for all, promote the collaborative development of teaching resources between industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation to cultivate teachers, organize internship training according to the actual requirements of the job, and use digital technology to empower education and teaching reform.

Peng Binbai, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education of China, said that the agreement adheres to voluntary participation, openness, inclusiveness and equal consultation in its action path. Through bilateral and multilateral consultations, a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the form of "general + country" and "general + field" is signed to promote implementation.

"Many vocational skills are cross-border, and it is very important to establish a common framework." Fernando Alexander, Portugal's Minister of Education, Science and Innovation, said that this will help improve the transparency of vocational education, improve the quality assessment mechanism, and facilitate exchanges and cooperation between countries.