Abstract: Combining the strategy of vocational education going global with Yunnan's geographical advantages facing South Asia and Southeast Asia country, this paper focuses on the issue of weak practical teaching abilities of teachers in Yunnan's vocational colleges. It analyzes the core challenges such as the imbalance between standard output and local adaptation, insufficient cross-border practical ability, and inadequate integration into the international ecosystem, and builds a multi-mechanism of “mutual empowerment, cross-border cultivation, and collaborative improvement”. By integrating resources from multiple entities such as educational institutions, enterprises, and overseas partners, and focusing on key links like the localization transformation of cross-border teaching, collaborative practices between schools and enterprises, and digital teaching empowerment, provide support for optimizing the path of teacher ability cultivation, with the goal of assisting Yunnan's vocational colleges in promoting high-quality vocational education going global.

Key words: Vocational education going global, Vocational colleges in Yunnan, Practical teaching ability, Improvement mechanism, Cross-border cultivation, Two-way empowerment