Abstract: Type education establishes the attribute and reform direction of vocational education,which is conducive to promoting the common development of all kinds of education,improving the social status of vocational education,and promoting the quality of vocational colleges.The types of vocational education are characterized by the school-running mode of industry-education integration,the education mode of school-enterprise cooperation,the cultivation mode of technical talent and the earning mode of work-integrated learning.From the perspective of type education,higher vocational colleges should seize opportunities and meet challenges,deepen reform in top-level design of operation mechanism,construction of teaching resource base,reform of teaching mode and transformation of evaluation paradigm,promote ideological and political courses to better meet the needs of vocational education reform,and give full play to the role of moral cultivation.