Vocational education is an integral part of the Chinese education system. Education quality is the lifeline of vocational education, and evaluations are essential to the improvement of education quality. In recent years, studies on the evaluation of education quality in higher vocational colleges have increasingly become the focus of all sectors of society. Research pertaining to this issue not only promotes the deepening of the vocational education evaluation theory, but also serves as a guidance for practical evaluation, therefore improves the education quality in higher vocational colleges. This paper retrieved, collated and analyzed studies conducted by Chinese scholars from 2016-2021 on the evaluation of education quality in higher vocational colleges in China, and summarized their viewpoints from various aspects such as defining concepts, evaluating their subject, content, criteria and methods. This paper aims to provide reference and guidance for further research in this field.