This update to the professional directory is closely aligned with the national "15th Five-Year" Plan outline and the "15th Five-Year" Plan for Education Development. It focuses on building a modern industrial system, promoting the high-quality and efficient development of the service sector, and precisely meeting the needs of new industries, business forms, scenarios, and models. The aim is to cultivate high-skilled talent, with a particular emphasis on adding majors in fields such as the digital economy, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, high-end equipment, urban renewal, and areas with critical shortages in public services.

For instance, to support the expansion and quality improvement of the service sector, new vocational undergraduate majors like Technology Brokerage Services and Low-Altitude Transportation Engineering Technology have been added in the producer services field to help industries move up the value chain. In the consumer services field, higher vocational college majors such as Infant and Toddler Family Nurturing & Guidance and Leisure & Wellness Operations & Management have been introduced to address skill gaps in public service areas.

Based on the development needs of cutting-edge industries, the update proactively connects with new occupations and positions from the "National Occupational Classification Dictionary," focusing on new majors in key areas like the digital and green economies. In response to emerging professions like Robotics Engineering Technicians, new vocational undergraduate and college majors such as Humanoid Robot Engineering Technology, Digital Twin Engineering Technology, and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication Technology have been established. For green energy sectors like hydrogen and energy storage, majors including Hydrogen Energy Engineering Technology (vocational undergraduate) and Energy Storage Material & Equipment Intelligent Operation & Maintenance Technology (higher vocational college) have been created to precisely fill skill gaps in these frontier fields.

This professional expansion fully leverages industry-education integration consortia and municipal-level industry-education alliances, transforming real-world industry demands and core corporate needs into the basis for setting up new majors. For example, relying on the Urban Renewal Industry-Education Integration Consortium, a precise assessment of talent shortages in areas like building inspections, structural reinforcement, and intelligent retrofitting within the civil engineering field was conducted, leading to the addition of the Urban Renewal Design Technology vocational undergraduate major. Utilizing the Deyang Major Technical Equipment Manufacturing Municipal Industry-Education Alliance, an in-depth analysis of urgent needs for positions in equipment manufacturing like equipment fault diagnosis, precision non-destructive testing, and intelligent quality inspection was performed, resulting in the addition of the Intelligent Non-Destructive Testing Technology vocational undergraduate major. Through the High-Skilled Talent Cluster Development Plan for Vocational Education, a batch of urgently needed majors have been added to serve major projects like plateau railways, key strategies like urban renewal, and public service sectors like childcare and elderly care.

Regarding the next steps for promoting this professional expansion, an official from the Ministry of Education's Department of Vocational and Adult Education stated that they will organize educational institutions across regions to systematically complete the establishment of these new majors, promptly develop and refine relevant professional teaching standards and talent training plans, and continuously improve the rapid response mechanism.

The official emphasized the need to strengthen the supervisory and guidance responsibilities of local education administrative departments. They should effectively utilize the "three lists" – one for majors in high demand, one for majors requiring transformation and upgrading, and one for majors subject to restrictions or removal. This will guide local vocational schools to improve their operational conditions based on the development needs of their regional characteristic industries, scientifically plan, and orderly establish new majors to strictly guard against phenomena like rash expansion and blind imitation.

List of Newly Added Majors:

Vocational Undergraduate Majors (18): Hydrogen Energy Engineering Technology, Urban Renewal Design Technology, Intelligent Water Affairs Engineering, Intelligent Non-Destructive Testing Technology, Humanoid Robot Engineering Technology, Cruise Ship Interior Decoration Engineering, Chemical Equipment Engineering Technology, Packaging Planning & Design, Low-Altitude Transportation Engineering Technology, Computing-Network Convergence Engineering Technology, Embodied Intelligent Computing Technology, Industrial Software Engineering Technology, Digital Twin Engineering Technology, Ophthalmic & Optometric Instrument Engineering Technology, Commercial Artificial Intelligence Application, Technology Brokerage Services, Smart Retail Operations Management, Digital Cultural Tourism Technology & Application.

Higher Vocational College Majors (9): Energy Storage Material & Equipment Intelligent Operation & Maintenance Technology, Marine Intelligent Robot Application Technology, Plateau Railway Intelligent Construction & Operation Maintenance, Intelligent Agent Communication Technology, Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication Technology, Leisure & Wellness Operations & Management, Theatrical Costume & Prop Design & Production, Infant and Toddler Family Nurturing & Guidance, Elderly Education Services & Management.