Northern city increases vocational training and job creation

Over the past years, together with accelerating economic development and the building of urban technical infrastructure, Mong Cai city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, has focused on vocational training and job creation for labourers, in order to stabilise and increase their living standards and contribute to addressing social problems. 

Planting flowers brings high economic efficiency for residents in Hai Hoa ward. (Photo: Quang Ninh newspaper)

Each year, the city earmarks a certain amount of money as preferential loans for poor and nearly-poor people, to help them find jobs.

The city issued policies to encourage economic sectors to expand production, diversifying industries to create more new jobs for labourers.

Since late 2006, the city has worked with the provincial centre on employment introduction to successfully organise work fairs, helping over 1,000 labourers be recruited at enterprises, significantly reducing the unemployment rate at localities.

Also since 2006, the city has created jobs for over 10,000 labourers, increased the rate of trained labourers to over 60%; increased the working hours of rural labourers to nearly 90%; and built diverse effective economic development models./.