(Guangdong Sports Vocational Education and Technical Colle,Guangzhou 510663,China) Abstract: The employment and ways out of retired athletes has always been a difficult problem that has hindered the development of the sports undertaking in China and has not been solved over a long period of time. On the basis of analyzing the current state of vocational education for retired athletes in China, the author specified the impor-tance of vocational education for retired athletes, and put forward the following opinions: among such 3 major channels as correspondence education, regular college education and advanced vocational education available today, vocational physical education is currently an effective way to solve the problem that it is difficult for retired athletes to find an way out; a multi-type, multi-layer, multi-form and multi-channel athlete vocational skill education and training system lead by institutes of vocational physical education technology should be established as soon as pos-sible, so as to ensure that athletes can complete degree conferred education while they complete vocational skill education and training during the training period, thus to expand the ways to employment of retire athletes. Key words: vocational education;vocational physical education;retired athletes |