The better specialty structure is,the more actively the higher education serves the economic and society's development.Specialty structure of higher vocational education in Shanxi has many problems such as unreasonable specialty structure,seriously similar specialty among colleges,unspecific composition of specialty and so on.Therefore,we must take measures to strengthen the scientific nature of the specialty establishment,optimize the specialty structure between the colleges and universities,and optimize the specialty structure in school.The essence of optimizing specialty structure is to adjust,construct,manage and promote the specialty.