PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks of highly-skilled workers’ role
Highly-skilled workers create a chance for the competitive development as Vietnam is intensively and extensively integrating into the world economy, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed at a dialogue in Ho Chi Minh City on May 5 with representatives of workers.
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc (standing) at the meeting with highly-skilled workers in HCM City. (Photo: VNA)
Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – Highly-skilled workerscreate a chance for the competitive development as Vietnam is intensively andextensively integrating into the world economy, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phucstressed at a dialogue in Ho Chi Minh City on May 5 with representatives ofworkers.
Speaking at the 4th edition of the annualmeeting, with the participation of workers from seven localities belonging tothe country’s key economic region, the Government leader further said that thenational development does not rely only on capital, cheap labour but alsoproduction capacity.
Highly-skilled workers are a national treasure as they serveas a locomotive for the economic development and attract foreign investors. However,they account for only less than 19 percent of the total workforce andministries must work out concrete policies to improve this, he pointed out.
Workers’ representatives held that vocational training isyet to catch up with the technology development. As a result, most of theworkers have not received proper training and the vocational training has yetto meet the requirement of a competitive labour market.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dungsaid his ministry advocates conducting vocational training in line with theneed of the labour market, focusing in the fields the society needs, not whatthe ministry is having. It is also intensifying the connection between trainingand enterprises that will employ the workers.
For his part, Minister of Education and Training Phung XuanNha laid a stress on the connection and highlighted that his ministry advocatesincreasing the forms of training, aiming to raise the foreign language commandand professional skills for workers.
Meanwhile, a representative of the employers pointed to thefact that new recruits cannot start working immediately but need from one totwo years for further training.
Concluding the dialogue, Prime Minister Phuc affirmed thatthe Government will continue to work out policies to raise workers’ salary andother welfares. He urged them to train themselves and keep training for thewhole life, and ordered trade union organisations to pay more attention to theworkers’ families.-VNA
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PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc (standing) at the meeting with highly-skilled workers in HCM City. (Photo: VNA) 
