Abstract—As an important part of the Chinese education system, higher vocational education shoulders the mission to train hundreds of millions of high-caliber workers and tens of millions of talents with special skills, laying a solid foundation for the national economy and social development. Studying the important contribution of higher vocational education to economic growth and industrial development is of great theoretical and practical significance to better giving play to the economic function of higher vocational education and better facilitating socioeconomic construction of China. This paper mainly studied the contribution of higher vocational education to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and industrial structure upgrading of China, for the purpose of obtaining the contribution rate of higher vocational education in economic growth and industrial structure upgrading by analyzing data such as educational expenditure on higher vocational education, the scale of education, economic growth and industrial development in China since 2000.  
 

Keywords—higher vocational education, economic growth, industrial upgrading, empirical study, China

Cite: Jiali Jin and Sike Jin, "An Empirical Study of the Contribution of Higher Vocational Education to Economic Growth and Industrial Upgrading in China," International Journal of Learning and Teaching, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 102-108, 2025.

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