Abstract: Promoting the high-quality integration of vocational education at the regional level is an important strategy to achieve the modernization of Chinese vocational education.The Yangtze River Delta region has adopted a strategic model of integrated development in the process of promoting the modernization of vocational education,experiencing three stages of civil self-organization and local cooperation,government-led diverse collaboration,and embedded integrated development.Now,it has moved towards the stage of high-quality integrated development,and the governance model has also shifted from collaborative governance to meta-governance.After more than 30 years of development,the high-quality integration of vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta has achieved significant results.However,administrative managements funnel-like competitive relationship,economic developments feudal distribution pattern,and the social networks binding contractual links have constrained the synergistic governance of vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta,and also slowed down the development process of high-quality integration and modernization.Therefore,the integrated development of vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta needs to construct an institutional framework with substantial embedment,reconstruct a standard system with uniform scale,create a diversified school-running pattern,innovate the school-enterprise dual collaborative education mechanism,and optimize the policy guarantee of key support.

Key words: Yangtze River Delta integration, vocational education, modernization, high-quality development, meta-governance