This article analyzes the current status and problems of vocational education for China's ethnic minorities. It concludes that these problems have both universal areas in common with China's overall education situation and individual characteristics; they also have both extrinsic and intrinsic qualities. The universal areas include the extrinsic problems of education in adapting to social transformation, and the intrinsic overall structural imbalances in education. Individual areas include, extrinsically, the new human and technical requirements of industrial restructuring and, intrinsically, the fact that vocational education specialties are too one-dimensional and lag behind development. This article presents some strategies and approaches to address and respond to these problems.