Abstract: With the advent of the network technology and the big data times, vocational education and training for modern professional farmers in China are facing new challenges and opportunities. With the huge resources in secondary vocational schools, developed countries’experience can be learned in distance education and training of farmers through network. To make the role of distance education into a full play in the education and training of modern professional farmers, we can improve the new vocational education and training system for cultivating modern professional farmers.