Abstract: Vocational education is an important part of China's national education system, the country also pays more and more attention to the talent development of vocational education, and issued the "national vocational education reform implementation plan" in 2019. This provides macro guidance for the development of vocational education, but in the face of the actual development problems in this field, we need to reach a consensus and make efforts at all levels of society. From the perspective of empowerment theory, combined with the three basic elements of vocational education, that is, students, teachers and schools, the author discusses how to promote the overall development of vocational education from their different aspects.

Key words: Vocational education, Empowerment theory, Development