The cultivating target of higher vocational education is always the important factor to influence the development of China’s higher vocation. It has different position in different historical periods. It has changed gradually in the development process of the higher vocational education，and its connotation is enriched and developed constantly，and also integrated some content given by era. In the recent decade，with the rapid development of the higher vocational education，it presented a multi-level structure，and its architecture appeared step by step. In addition，with the deep study of the vocational education theory and social practice，we explored the cultivating target and the basic task of the higher vocational education，and achieved plenty of fruits. After reorganizing，summarizing and extracting the related research output，we realized that the cultivating target of the higher vocational education is to cultivate the talents of“high quality，and high skills”.