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A Sense of Vocation

After graduating in May, Huang Xiaodong has landed his first job, at a local hi-tech enterprise focusing on milling technology research and development. When he was a numerical control machining major at a secondary vocational school in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, he had interned at the enterprise for one year before getting hired full-time because of his excellent performance.

“I will continue to work hard and hopefully become a technical expert in the machine tool industry in the future,” Huang told local news portal Anhuinews.com.

In April, Chinese lawmakers adopted a revision to the Vocational Education Law. The revision stipulates that vocational education is as important as general education and notes that

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