Sun Yijang is not only a famous master of scripture in modern China, but also a patriotic industrial educator with a heart for the world. During the thirteen years from 1895 to 1908, Sun Yijang founded many new schools and industrial schools and made painstaking efforts in promoting industrial education, making historic contributions to the development of industrial education in Wenzhou. An overview of Sun Yijang's industrial education activities and educational thinking, Sun Yijang's activities and ideas of industrial education are highly compatible with the provisions of the China National Vocational Education Reform Implementation Program, promulgated by the State Council of PRC in January 2019, such as practical talent training system, high‐level training bases, vocational education teachers and sound funding mechanism. Under the new situation of reforming vocational education and comprehensively improving the quality of vocational education personnel training, it is timely to deeply explore and study Sun Yijang's vocational education activities and educational thoughts, which have profound practical significance and important inspiration.