Research on Characteristics and Models of China's Cooperative Education

This paper utilizes the method of synthetic analysis to summarize the characteristics and models of China's cooperative education, which shows the distinctive research and practice of China's Co-op according to 113 thesis and 27 reports presented on Summit of China's Cooperative Education in 2009. Co-op (short for "cooperative education") in graduate education is particular, diversified in undergraduate education and perfect in vocational college. The reform and development of CIAR (short for cooperation of industry-academy-research) becomes much more prosperous. Finally we make the following conclusion: Co-op in China will develop from "three cooperation" to "four cooperation", which is the cooperation in education, school-running, employment and mutual development.