Vietnam to improve vocational standards for 1.5 million rural workers
The program will be implemented nationwide, with priority given to especially disadvantaged coastal and island communes, ethnic minority and mountainous areas and communes building advanced new-style rural models.
THE HANOI TIMES — Vietnam has set the target to provide vocational training and skills improvement for around 1.5 million rural workers annually, with the employment rate exceeding 85%.
The goals were set in a program on comprehensive reform and improved vocational training quality for rural workers by 2030, recently approved by Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long.
A woodworking facility in Hanoi's suburban commune of Ung Hoa. Photo: Pham Hung/The Hanoi Times
It aims to comprehensively reform and enhance the training quality, contributing to labor and economic restructuring, job creation and narrowing the gap in the proportion of trained workers between rural and urban areas.
The program trains high-quality human resources for modern agriculture and supports the shift of rural workers into industry and services in line with rural modernization and international integration.
It links rural training with the development of modern, prosperous and sustainable new-style rural areas.
Curricula, textbooks and materials will be updated to meet labor market demand and emerging jobs driven by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Priority will be given to training in industrial, service and agricultural sectors aligned with regional socio-economic needs.
The program also supports economic restructuring and the development of modern, sustainable agriculture and rural areas beyond 2030.
Training programs and databases will be digitized, with pilot remote training stations in disadvantaged and ethnic minority areas.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment said about 50 universities and schools provide training in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and irrigation.
It aims to raise the share of workers in these sectors with elementary-level certificates or higher to 10% by 2030.
Resources from the State and society will be mobilized to improve high-quality training and expand college-level programs based on the Japanese model.
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Hanoi plans to provide vocational training for 20,000 rural workers annually to ensure 80% of the city’s workforce is trained and a 60% certification rate by 2030. This target is part of the capital’s latest action plan to implement the Hanoi Party Committee’s Plan No. 316-KH/TU, following the Politburo’s Directive No. 37-CT/TW on reforming vocational training for rural labor to meet the demands of industrialization and modernization. Under the plan, the city will comprehensively reform vocational education for rural workers to enhance workforce quality, generate stable employment, and increase incomes in rural areas. To achieve these goals, Hanoi requires relevant departments and localities to prioritize awareness campaigns, modernize curricula, provide digital skills training, and build teacher capacity. |
