Prime Minister: Believe that the young generation will promote their mettle, overcome challenges, and devote themselves to the country.

On the morning of March 22, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a dialogue conference with Vietnamese youth with the theme: "Building high-quality young human resources to meet the 4.0 era". The conference was held in person at the Government Office headquarters, connecting online to 64 points nationwide.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a dialogue conference with Vietnamese youth with the theme: "Building high-quality young human resources to meet the 4.0 era". Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Panoramic view of Nghe An province bridge. Photo: Pham Bang

The conference focused on dialogue on three groups of issues: Education and training for the goal of building and developing high-quality young human resources to meet the requirements of the 4.0 era; Physical training, improving cultural and spiritual life for young people; Creating an environment for young people to establish businesses, start businesses, and be creative.

YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO PROACTIVELY EFFORT IN LEARNING AND IMPROVING SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

At the conference, union members and young people asked many questions to the Prime Minister and leaders of ministries and branches about the Government's policies in building high-quality human resources; reforming university education so that Vietnamese students can be on par with students in the world in terms of capacity and intelligence; policies to support interest rates for young people and young workers to buy low-cost houses; solutions for vocational retraining for young workers;...

Young businessman Pham Nhat Thanh raises questions about policies for building quality human resources in the digital age. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The Prime Minister said that our country is realizing its great aspiration to become a high-middle-income country by 2030 and is currently building three major pillars: One is building socialism, respecting differences, mobilizing intelligence, combining national strength and the strength of the times. Two is building a rule-of-law state by the people and for the people, with all policies originating from the people. Three is building a socialist market economy.

“These three pillars are important, but throughout, people are the subject, the goal, and the driving force for development, so along with growth, culture and education will develop accordingly,” the Prime Minister analyzed and emphasized that the young generation must promote the traditions of their ancestors, be ready to overcome difficulties, clearly define responsibilities, have the will to be self-reliant and not expect or depend on others; with the spirit of youth, nothing can hinder them.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and leaders of ministries and sectors answer questions from young people. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son further emphasized that the education system is currently being reformed from general education to university education. The capacity of workers must be formed from the early years of general education and cannot wait until university. Once entering university, it is necessary to strengthen vocational knowledge and other professional skills.

For students, in addition to basic skills, they also need to be equipped with soft skills, information technology, foreign language and many other skills. In order for workers to adapt, universities, depending on different training fields, have come up with solutions to best support students according to the requirements in the near future.

Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social AffairsSociety Dao Ngoc Dung answers questions from young people. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Emphasizing that the youth force has never been as strong as it is today, according to the Minister of Labor, War Invalids andDao Ngoc Dung's society, although young population, young labor but national competitiveness is not strong, labor productivity is not high, there is still a lot of informal labor, labor skills, life skills still have many problems.

Minister Dao Ngoc Dung said that Vietnam is lacking 1 million workers in the technology sector, so if we want to go fast, we have to train people. The solutions are to focus on creating policies for three groups of young people including average, slow-developing and special. Pay attention to the surrounding policy system such as building houses for young people, no more temporary houses, taking care of social welfare...

Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung presided over the Nghe An province bridge. Photo: Pham Bang

Emphasizing that the Party identifies science education as the top national policy, with many priority policies for education and training, and science and technology development, the Prime Minister said that our country is developing, has a transforming economy, and there are many things that need to be done, but resources are still modest.

Therefore, the compilation of training programs to meet the world's requirements must be suitable to the country's circumstances. In that situation, it is necessary for each individual to make efforts in studying, training, and meeting the development requirements suitable to the country's circumstances.

YOUNG PEOPLE MUST HAVE GOALS, IDEALS, AND THE DESIRE TO RISE UP AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.

At the conference, many young people asked questions about solutions to take care of health, improve physical fitness for young people, and meet human resource standards; policies to promote cultural industrial products in the country; solutions to overcome the lack of cultural institutions in industrial parks and export processing zones; policies to support young people starting businesses; strategies to recruit young officials to work in state agencies...

Vu Nhu Quynh, President of the Vietnam Student Association of the University of Commerce, raised questions about university education. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Responding to questions from young people, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that it is necessary to have correct guidelines and policies, suitable to Vietnam's circumstances, to promote innovation, research, and development of science and technology. Along with that, it is necessary to continue to improve the legal basis; make appropriate investments; create an ecosystem to strongly encourage the movement of innovation and scientific research in any field, especially among young people.

In addition to the Party and State's guidelines, policies, mechanisms and strategies, to do this, it is necessary to have the initiative, positivity and efforts of the youth and youth organizations in inspiring and motivating the youth; if we create a movement, there will be nuclei and the nuclei will promote the movement.

Youth delegates from Nghe An province attend the dialogue conference. Photo: Pham Bang

Responding to a question about health care for young people, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that the issue of protecting and improving people's health care is a very important social security policy. Recently, our Party and State have synchronously implemented many solutions.

However, to accomplish this task, in addition to the attention of the Government and the Prime Minister, a very important reason is to enhance the self-training skills of each young person, have a plan to take care of their own health, thereby helping the country to be healthy as Uncle Ho said: "Each healthy citizen will create a healthy country".

Nguyen Nguyet Anh - a student at Vinh University asked about solutions to handle bad and toxic information on cyberspace. Photo: Pham Bang

Answering the question of Nguyen Nguyet Anh - a student of Vinh University about solutions to handle bad and toxic information on the internet, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said that to clean up the internet environment, we must deal with "garbage". First of all, we must deal with people who litter "garbage". There are currently decrees to handle administrative sanctions for these violations, and higher than criminal sanctions.

Besides, cyberspace is healthy when the rate of bad and toxic news is low. If we can put more good news in life on cyberspace, the rate of bad news will decrease. This is the job of all of us, including young people who are “digital citizens” from birth.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung answers a question from Nguyen Nguyet Anh, a student at Vinh University. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

To achieve the rate of youth participation in the management and leadership apparatus, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra emphasized that the solution in the coming time is to focus on strictly implementing the work of young cadres, ensuring participation in Party committees at all levels is 10% and by 2030 it is 15%.

Complete the strategy for attracting and utilizing talents early, build relevant decrees, and have a legal basis for comprehensive implementation of the youth strategy. At the same time, hope that young people will train their mettle and will, strive to establish their careers, grow up more, and be worthy of being the pillars of the country, the future owners of the country.

Leaders of departments, branches and sectors of Nghe An province attended the dialogue conference. Photo: Pham Bang

Regarding policies to support young entrepreneurs, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said that the Government and ministries and branches have issued many policies to support startups, but although there are many policies, there are certain limitations.

Currently, the Ministry of Planning and Investment is establishing the National Center for Technology Innovation at Hoa Lac High-Tech Park (Hanoi) and forming ecosystems connecting the State, research institutes, universities and enterprises to support specific mechanisms to promote scientific research and innovation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh believes that young people will promote the spirit of “wherever there is a need, there is youth, wherever there is difficulty, there is youth”, ready to do any task when the Fatherland needs. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Emphasizing some points on creating policy mechanisms to support small and medium enterprises, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the Government will build institutions to create space for innovation; create spaces and incubators for innovation. In addition, the Government will have policies to prioritize loans for innovation for young people to start businesses, facilitate technology transfer; train human resources, and create products for the market.

Speaking at the end of the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh believed that young people will promote the spirit of "wherever there is a need, there is youth, wherever there is difficulty, there is youth", ready to do any task when the Fatherland needs.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents flowers to congratulate the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union on its 92nd founding anniversary. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents gifts to 10 Outstanding Young Faces of 2022. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents gifts to 10 Promising Young Faces of 2022. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

On the other hand, young people in the present era must have goals, ideals, and aspirations to rise up anytime, anywhere; have a strong will in all circumstances; be creative in the 4.0 industrial era; be responsible for themselves, their families, and society; and devote themselves to a strong, happy, and prosperous country. The Party, the State, and the entire political system will always promoteEncourage young people to fulfill their ideals and realize the wishes of previous generations.

At the program, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented flowers to congratulate the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union; presented gifts to 10 outstanding young faces of 2022 and 10 promising young faces of 2022.