Vocational education is an important means of enhancing human resources in ethnic regions. In terms of strengthening professional skills, it can lay a solid foundation for career development; In terms of stimulating innovative thinking, it can broaden career promotion opportunities; In terms of enhancing inheritance ability, it can enrich the connotation of knowledge value; In promoting the advancement of quality, educators can inject vitality into human resource growth. At present, there is a low degree of integration between industry and education in empowering human resources in ethnic regions through vocational education, and the collaborative mechanism needs to be improved; The mismatch between supply and demand in professional settings and the lack of dynamic adjustment mechanisms; The structure of the teaching staff is inadequate, and their practical teaching ability is weak; Imbalance in resource allocation mechanism and low level of social recognition. By deepening the institutional reform of the integration of industry and education, optimizing the cultivation system of human resources, strengthening the construction of teachers and basic abilities, improving institutional guarantees and social recognition, the study aims to promote the sustained empowerment of vocational education to enhance human resources in ethnic regions.