Qingdao launched national vocational education week as a sub venue city, the activity was launched in Tianjin on 8 May.

    In recent years Qingdao has made great efforts in education and included vocational education into overall plan of city development and education modernization, the city issued Qingdao Municipal Vocational Education Rules as the local policy and has held a series of works such as modern apprenticeship system trial site, 3+4 excellent engineer training, middle and senior technician integrated training, as well as integrated education of vocational and full-time education, public productive training base construction. Qingdao made progress in vocational education reform and development, which shows great development momentum.

    Qingdao has organized activities such as vocational education into middle school, vocational education volunteer into communities and companies, pupil and middle school students approach vocational education, 80 vocational schools, 1,000 school-company cooperative enterprises joined the activities with over 0.5 million city residents and students.