The research on the preference for choice of tertiary vocational education policy tools is helpful to improve the policy system and practice. There are some problems in the choice of policy tools in China’s tertiary vocational education, such as excessive use of authority tools, infrequent use of incentives, one-sided use of capacity-building tools, and schematic use of learning tools. Therefore, in the New Era the following should be done to continuously optimize the choice of policy tools for tertiary vocational education: highlighting the collaborative feature to enhance the performance of authority tools, inspiring teachers’ enthusiasm to give full play to the effectiveness of incentives, improving infrastructure to boost the use of capacity-building tools, and leveraging strengths to fulfill the functions of learning tools.