CEFContemporary Education Frontiers3029-18793029-1860WHIOCE PUBLISHING PTE. LTD.10.18063/CEF.v3i6.693ArticleInternationalization at Home in Higher Vocational Education within the Context of Building China into a Leading Country in Education: Connotation and Promotion Strategieshttps://artdesignp.com/journal/CEF/3/6/10.18063/CEF.v3i6.693ZhangHao2025362025-07-26The goal of building China into a leading country in education imposes strategic requirements for the high-quality development of Higher Vocational Education (HVE). This paper focuses on Internationalization at Home (IaH) in HVE, aiming to elucidate how it effectively serves the construction of a leading country in education through localized practices. The study first clarifies the paradigm shift of IaH from cross-border mobility to local integration, along with its core characteristics of integrating vocational nature and inclusivity within the vocational education context. Furthermore, from the strategic level of building a leading country in education, it profoundly discusses the triple value implications of IaH: firstly, promoting educational equity through inclusive intercultural cultivation, thereby implementing the people-oriented educational philosophy; secondly, significantly enhancing the quality of technical and skilled talent training by introducing international high-quality resources and technical standards, strengthening talent support; and thirdly, facilitating national high-level opening-up and global competitiveness enhancement by serving the internationalization of regional industries. In response to current practical challenges, this paper proposes a three-dimensional strategy involving strengthened policy guidance, improved institutional implementation mechanisms, and deepened cross-border integration, offering insights for constructing an internationalization model of vocational education with Chinese characteristics and empowering the building of a leading country in education.building a leading country in education,internationalization at home (IaH),higher vocational education (HVE),promotion strategies

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