Since 2005, the Ministry of Education has co-built 12 national vocational education reform experimental zones with respectively Tianjin, Henan, Sichuan, Three Gorges Reservoir Area, Guangxi, Liaoning, Weifang in Shandong, Wanjiang in Anhui, Heilongjiang, Ningbo in Zhejiang, Chongqing and Gansu. Focusing on solving its own major problems, each zone made great progress in vocational education, which is shown in the following aspects:continuous improvement in rules and policies, more and more funding, increasingly expanding scale, continuous improvement in faculty composition, breakthroughs in institutional mechanism reform. Contributed to their success were the following factors:government being the major force, clear and feasible targets, specific tasks, motivation by system reform, implementation with preferential policies. Meanwhile, some problems still remain, such as old conceptions to be changed, aims to be targeted still higher, characteristics to be further highlighted, cooperation to be enhanced and administrative efficiency to be further improved. In the new era, facing new problems and with new objectives, greater prominence should be given to the following aspects:regularity, humanism, questioning thinking, cooperation and creativity.