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<article xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" dtd-version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">erd</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Education Reform and Development</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2652-5364</issn><eissn>2652-5372</eissn><publisher><publisher-name>Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26689/erd.v8i8.15373</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title>Research on the Internationalization Model of Higher Vocational Education in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, China</title><url>https://artdesignp.com/journal/erd/8/8/10.26689/erd.v8i8.15373</url><author>PengChaolin,PengJian</author><pub-date pub-type="publication-year"><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>8</issue><history><date date-type="pub"><published-time>2026-09-17</published-time></date></history><abstract>The development of higher vocational education in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is undergoing rapid transformation, and how to effectively promote its internationalized school-running model has become a crucial topic at present. This paper clarifies the current status and challenges of the internationalized school-running model of higher vocational education in the GBA, analyzes the successful experiences of typical international school-running models abroad, and proposes innovative designs for internationalized school-running models such as the multi-level collaborative school-running model, the cross-border integrated school-running model, and the digitally enabled school-running model, taking into account the actual situation of the GBA. These designs aim to enhance the internationalization level of higher vocational education in the GBA, contribute more high-quality talents to regional economic development and social progress, and promote economic transformation and upgrading.</abstract><keywords>Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao, Higher vocational education, Internationalized school-running model, Multi-level collaboration, Digitally enabled</keywords></article-meta></front><body/><back><ref-list><ref id="B1" content-type="article"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>[1]&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Xinhua News Agency, 2019, The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council Issue the &amp;ldquo;Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.&amp;rdquo; Government of China, 2019.
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