At present, how to make vocational education more in line with international standards has become the key point of high-quality development of vocational education in China. However, facing the challenges brought by the current globalization and internationalization changes, the internationalization of vocational education should pay more attention to the connotative development, and its development mode also needs further exploration and breakthrough. This paper first analyzes the contemporary connotation of the internationalization of vocational education in the context of the new era, then analyzes the main difficulties faced by the internationalization of vocational education in combination with the background of the era, and finally puts forward suggestions for the development of the internationalization of vocational education in China in the new era from four aspects: optimizing the system and mechanism, promoting local internationalization, improving education and teaching methods, and further improving the curriculum system. It aims to provide a series of references for the practice of internationalization of vocational education.