Abstract: China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) has conscientiously implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important commands on poverty alleviation, in accordance with the relevant document requirements and work arrangements by the Party organization of the Ministry of Education on poverty alleviation. The university has effectively integrated school education resources and leveraged its academic and professional advantages to support the teaching and management of many other universities. This includes helping establish the Jewelry College of West Yunnan University of Applied Sciences from scratch, which has made an indispensable and outstanding contribution to the talent training, professional construction and development of colleges and universities mainly located in the southwest region.In view of the various practical problems existing in the previous vocational education counterpart support, this paper comprehensively sorts out the previous researches on the counterpart support of universities and vocational education, studies the counterpart support of gemmological vocational education in southwest China, which is relatively limited, and proposes six ways of thinking in the aspect of counterpart support research, and the expansion directions of policy research for counterpart support in gemstone vocational education in the future.