Bac Giang (VNA) – The northern province of Bac Giang aims to generatejobs for 31,000 labourers, of whom 3,700 are expected to be sent abroad undercontracts.
Local vocational training institutions are scheduled to admit 28,500 studentsin 2020, thus increasing the rate of trained workers in the local workforce to 70percent, according to the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs.
The province will strive to bring the unemployment rate in urban areas down to 3percent this year.
To that end, Bac Giang will take synchronous measures, focusing ondisseminating basic employment regulations and providing vocationalconsultations, vocational training and job creation policies to labourers,according to director of the department Bui Thi Thu Thuy.
The department will coordinate with other agencies and organisations in theprovince to attract investment and effectively implement major economicprogrammes and projects.
Bac Giang hopes to lure high-tech and knowledge-intensive projects, whilepaying attention to small- and medium-scale ones in order to create more jobsand transfer labour structure suitably, Thuy said.
The project on improving vocational training for rural labourers will continueto be rolled out, the official said, adding that Bac Giang encouragesbusinesses to play a role in vocational training.
The official cited arange of other tasks like studying the labour market, assessing the efficiencyof relevant projects and programmes, monitoring the performance of enterprisesin vocational training, job introduction, labour export, employment and socialinsurance.
Bac Giang will invest more in vocational training infrastructure, expand thissector and improve training quality, especially foreign language skills forlabourers.
It will closely coordinate with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs to send local workers to foreign countries like the RoK, Japan andGermany, Thuy added.
Statistics unveil that last year, the province created jobs for 30,600labourers, surpassing the yearly target by 3 percent and up 3.33 percent from2018./.
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