The invention relates to a production method of vinyl acetate, which comprises a vinyl acetate synthesis process, a vinyl acetate refining process and a vinyl acetate and ethyl acetate separation process. The device comprises an acetic acid evaporator, an oxygen mixer, a vinyl acetate synthesis reactor, a first gas separation tower, a second gas separation tower, a degassing tank, a water washingtower, an absorption tower, a desorption tower, an ethylene recovery tower, a recycle gas compressor and a recovery gas compressor, and the vinyl acetate refining process comprises an acetic acid tower, a crude VAC tower, a refined VAC tower, an aldehyde ester concentration tower, an acetaldehyde tower, a dehydration tower, a water phase receiving tank, an extractive distillation tower and an acetic ether tower. In the separation process of vinyl acetate and ethyl acetate, an extractive distillation process taking acetic acid as an extracting agent is adopted. According to the method, acetic acid is adopted as an extracting agent, the content of vinyl acetate in the stream without the ethyl acetate impurities is reduced from 90% or above to 5% or below, the adopted extracting agent is acetic acid carried in the feeding stream, and the process greatly reduces the operation cost of the device.