“It will take time for people to stop stereotyping vocational education, ” he said.

“人们需要时间来停止对职业教育的刻板印象，”他说。

Official data shows that nearly 31 million students are currently acquiring skills in over 11,000 vocational education institutions across China.

官方数据显示，目前全国有近3100万学生在1.1万多所职业教育机构学习技能。

Vocational education has long been seen as inferior to traditional degrees, with many associating the former with academically weaker students.

长期以来，人们一直认为职业教育不如传统学位，许多人将前者与学业较差的学生联系在一起。

There is a long history of vocational education in the US.

美国的职业教育历史悠久。

Vocational education used to be looked down upon by many people.

职业教育曾经被很多人看不起。

Today, vocational education is usually called career and technical education, or CTE.

今天，职业教育通常被称为职业和技术教育，或 CTE。

School in the family of vocational education " have that stereotype...that it's for kids who can't make it academically, " he says.

职业教育类学校是 “被人们贴上标签… … 即学习不好的孩子才接受职业教育”，他说。

He said China will carry out 1,000 small-scale livelihood assistance projects, and enhance vocational education cooperation through Luban Workshops and other initiatives.

他说，中国将开展 1000 个小型民生援助项目，并通过鲁班工坊等推进中外职业教育合作。

So, there's less of an emphasis on vocational education.

因此，人们不太重视职业教育。

Our first topic today is vocational education.

我们今天的第一个话题是职业教育。

So many people now view vocational education more favorably than they did in the past.

现在很多人比过去更看好职业教育。

We will enhance the adaptability of vocational education, deepen industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation, and implement the system of vocational technical grade certificates.

增强职业教育适应性，深化产教融合、校企合作，深入实施职业技能等级证书制度。

People used to look down upon vocational education, because they thought it wasn't as good as a traditional academic education.

人们过去看不起职业教育，因为他们认为它不如传统的学历教育。

In fact, four-year universities that have bachelor's degrees don't usually have courses in vocational education.

事实上，拥有学士学位的四年制大学通常不开设职业教育课程。

In 1917 millions of dollars were granted to states in aid of vocational education, incidentally imposing uniform standards throughout the country.

1917 年， 各州拨款数百万美元用于职业教育援助，顺便在全国推行统一标准。

Tonight, I ask Congress to support our students and back my plan to offer vocational and technical education in every single high school in America.

今晚，我请求国会支持我们的学生，支持我在美国每一所高中提供职业和技术教育的计划。

Usually, vocational education is one to two years; it doesn't require going to a four-year university for example.

通常，职业教育为一到两年；例如，它不需要上四年制大学。

Vocational education is also usually related to what we would call manual work.

职业教育通常也与我们所说的体力劳动有关。

Some American high schools also offer vocational education classes to teach teenagers basic skills in some of these different areas.

一些美国高中还开设职业教育课程，教授青少年在这些不同领域的基本技能。

Vocational education is sometimes called " career, " or when I was growing up in the 1970s, it was called " technical" education.

职业教育有时被称为“职业” ，或者当我在 20 世纪 70 年代长大时，它被称为“技术” 教育。