Nationwide, Vocational education has become China's higher education "half of the country." Vocational College enrollment continues to expand the scale expansion in the number of schools has risen sharply. In recent years, and the higher vocational education have also been booming development. But with the rapid development of higher vocational education, increasing the size of the school, some of the problems are gradually exposed: the role of the Government and the absence of offside coexist, and unfair treatment of financial support, students taking system lags behind, survival and development environment difficult; overall social evaluation is not high, students, parents, serious prejudice, some higher vocational institutions sponsoring their own direction unknown, redundant construction, and no personality characteristics, the subject of poor quality graduates employment difficulties, the problem is confusion Wu Duo, but if boils, Root of the Matter究end, and ultimately we can set our sights on one point: the positioning of higher vocational education. Vocational education is the lack of reasonable and accurate positioning, how to properly define its role, and have set up a suitable regional situation, and to protect Vocational Education sustained, healthy and steady development of the positioning system, we need to solve the problems. Some scholars began to higher vocational education should pay close attention to the development of higher vocational some constructive advice. But generally speaking, the academic community for the positioning of Higher Vocational Education Research relatively small, no systematic study on the formation theory. Therefore, this article is intended to higher vocational institutions as the main study, research and comparative literature through the study of a certain amount of investigation and research on the positioning of higher vocational education and the reasons for the problems were analyzed, and foreign successful positioning of the Higher Vocational Education experience, which is based on the correct positioning of Vocational Strategies. Papers in five major part of the study: Introduction to the first part: First, on the positioning of higher vocational education on the origin and significance of this study, and our country is already on the positioning of the Vocational study done a brief introduction. The second part of the positioning of higher vocational education concepts and theories related Overview: Vocational Education is the key position of the related concepts - higher vocational education, positioning, positioning of higher vocational education should be straightened out to define, but also the positioning of the Higher Vocational Education The theory - Colleges and Universities stratification (classification) and location theory, system theory, the personnel structure model theory, the theory of lifelong education, to provide a theoretical basis of this study. The third part of higher vocational education position and the reasons for the deviation Analysis: The major part of the Vocational Education Research positioning errors and attribution analysis, from a macro point of view is that the Government and social awareness of Higher Vocational Education positioning unclear, policies and regulations , the lack of funding support from the micro perspective of the Vocational College is positioning itself not understand the objective of fostering understanding narrow. Positioning the reasons for the deviation caused both traditional understanding of the impact of inertia are the drawbacks of the system. Part IV abroad successful positioning of higher vocational education experience and insight: foreign positioning of higher vocational education to the successful experience of the Enlightenment, "the objective of various high technology-based skills and the training of personnel; level position in the multi-level, open, ; position in the concept of lifelong education, and attach importance to the legislative work of vocational education with vocational education in the legal guarantee of the status of higher education. " Part V accurate positioning of higher vocational education Countermeasures: Higher Vocational Education positioning the problems and causes of higher vocational education abroad positioning the successful experience from the market mechanism and macro-control two aspects of the accurate positioning of Higher Vocational Education strategy.