Higher vocational education is in the key stage of connotation construction.Combing through 112 higher vocational education policy documents issued in the past decade,it is found that:the number of policy documents resonates with the relevant documents of The State Council;The text type is mainly top-down"notice";The Ministry of Education is the core department of policy making;There are a lot of policy themes with big differences in preference;Policy tools are used frequently with dominated command tools.Further analysis shows that the overall characteristics of China's higher vocational education policy in the past ten years are:strong in policy directivity,but weak in autonomy;strong in policy stage,but weak in foresight;rich in policy variety,but prominent in bias.