The Chinese government implemented the Industrial Designers’ Vocational Qualification (IDVQ) system since 2010 and has been formally implemented in two provinces. However, the execution of the IDVQ system has been opposed by many industrial designers. Three surveys were carried out in regard to the approval rating and usefulness of the IDVQ, in addition to concrete reasons for opposition. Analysis was carried out on the survey data and the reasons for opposition on the basis of several principles in behavioral economics and social psychology including loss aversion, causal schema, availability heuristic, subjective probability and the misjudgment of representativeness, and fairness. Some of the conclusions were further validated through surveys. It was discovered that subjectivity and emotional factors contributed tremendously to many industrial designers’ opposition to the IDVQ. On the basis of analysis and in combination with successful experience in the vocational systems of the United Kingdom and other countries, the following four suggestions were offered: building an environment of trust, increasing the probability of opportunities, uniting service objects, and cooperating on curricula education. These suggestions are expected to facilitate the implementation of the IDVQ and play a positive role in improving China’s vocational market of industrial design.