According to the panel data from 2008 to 2020, empirical research is conducted on the coupling and coordination relationship between the higher vocational education and the regional economic development in the Yangtze River economic belt by constructing a comprehensive evaluation indicator system and using a coupling and coordination degree model. The research results show that, the development levels of the higher vocational education system and the regional economic development system in the Yangtze River economic belt have been on the rise over the past 13 years. There existed a sound coupling interaction between the two systems. However, their coupling and coordination degree were not high. By the end of 2020, 73% of the provinces (cities) were in transition and imbalance, and the coupling coordination degree showed a gradient phenomenon of “high in the East and low in the west.” To improve the coupling and coordination level between the two systems, the Yangtze River Economic Belt shall deepen the supply-side reform of the higher vocational talent training in accordance with the needs of industrial development, optimize the layout of higher vocational specialties to boost the adaptability of education to economy, and strengthen regional overall coordination to accelerate the cluster development of regional higher vocational education.

The rural industry is the foundation for promoting farmers' income and rural development, and adhering to the green development of the rural industry is the internal requirement for comprehensively promoting Rural Revitalization Strategy (RRS) in China. Firstly, the article explains the three aspects of China's rural eco-industries' development logic: the rural eco-industries have the historical inevitability of action under the Ecological Civilization (EC), academic rationality of development under the theory of urban-rural integration development, and strategic action under ecological poverty alleviation. Secondly, it establishes the six components of the Chinese rural eco-eco-industries' scientific connotation: one guiding concept, three theoretical foundations, three development carriers, two practical paths, a 3*3 development model, and two fundamental goals. Thirdly, Suggestions to encourage the development of rural eco-industry in the three dimensions of "space, organization, and subject" from primary mode to advanced mode.

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