Chinese Model of Cluster-Based Cultivation of High-Skilled Talent in Vocational Education

Abstract Global technological iteration and industrial upgrading drive the continuous restructuring of industrial structures, production modes, and vocational competency systems. High-skilled talent cultivation is facing new changes in terms of program supply and industrial demand, curriculum content update, effective enterprise participation, and internship and practical training reform. Centered on industrial chain job clusters and competency maps, the cluster-based cultivation of high-skilled talent transforms industry standards, enterprise standards, job standards, and product standards into standards for programs, curricula, textbooks, practical training, and evaluation, promoting the collaborative reform of programs, curricula, textbooks, teachers, and internships and practical training. Relying on the “three-team-leader” system composed of leading enterprises, high-level vocational colleges, and authoritative industry organizations, it constructs an operational system connecting demand identification, standard transformation, resource sharing, collaborative cultivation, evaluation feedback, and dynamic update, and enhances cooperation efficiency through hierarchical governance, benefit sharing, digital empowerment, and risk prevention and control. This model promotes vocational education to shift from independent school running and single-point cooperation to industrial chain collaboration, cluster symbiosis, and skill ecosystem construction, forming a high-skilled talent cultivation scheme with Chinese characteristics that adapts to the requirements of global skills transformation, and providing Chinese experience for the systematic governance of vocational education and in-depth industry-education integration.