Over 206 thousand rural workers in Nghe An receive vocational training

Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Nearly 50 billion VND for vocational training in rural areas

According to the report of the Provincial People's Committee, in the 5 years of implementing the Project on vocational training for workers, associated with job creation and development of small-scale industry and craft villages in Nghe An province in the period of 2016 - 2020, the whole province has provided vocational training for 206,698 rural workers.

Of which, the number of rural workers supported with vocational training under the Project 1956 policy is 26,345 people, and Project 5222 alone is 23,712/40,000 people; contributing to increasing the rate of trained workers in the province from 48% (in 2015) to 55% (in 2020).

Brocade weaving of Thai people in Nghe An. Photo courtesy of Xuan Hoang

Training forms are organized flexibly and diversely such as: Formal training; training at vocational training facilities; mobile training in communes, villages and hamlets with 10 main occupational groups such as: Bamboo and rattan weaving, brocade weaving, embroidery, fine art carpentry, seafood processing, mushroom growing...

Every year, the rate of vocational secondary school graduates is over 95%. About 70-80% of trained workers have jobs and an average income of 4.5 - 5 million VND/month.

From 2016 to 2020, the province has built and recognized 26 more craft villages (reaching 100% of the planning target). Bringing the total number of craft villages in the province to date to 165.

At the conference, there were 4 presentations by representatives of some local authorities and craft villages in the province, expressing the effectiveness of vocational training for rural workers in the past time. At the same time, some solutions for vocational training for rural workers in the coming period were proposed and recommended to be more suitable.

Vocational training according to the actual needs of the labor market

Concluding the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu said that, besides the achieved results, vocational training under Project 5222 still has some limitations: The selection of training occupations associated with market demand is not clear. Socialization in vocational training implementation is still low. Awareness of Party committees, authorities and functional agencies in some localities is not adequate, even taking it lightly...

Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee delivered a concluding speech at the conference. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Identifying vocational training as the task of the entire political system, the primary responsibility of the Party Committee, the government..., the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that in the coming time, provincial departments, branches, socio-political organizations, Party Committees, governments at all levels, vocational schools, cooperatives, and enterprises pay attention to performing well a number of key tasks. Departments and branches such as: Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Industry and Trade, Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Cooperative Union need to strongly shift vocational training from the existing capacity of training institutions to training according to the vocational training needs of workers and the requirements of the labor market; linking vocational training with strategies, planning, and socio-economic development plans of each region, each industry, and each locality.

Promote the development of collective economy, cooperatives, enterprises... to act as a focal point for supplying services, raw materials and consuming rural agricultural products, small-scale industrial products, and craft villages. Create a solid foundation to attract and solve employment for workers after training.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu awarded Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee to 8 collectives and 7 individuals with outstanding achievements in vocational training in the period 2016 - 2020. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu assigned the Provincial Cooperative Union to preside over and coordinate with relevant departments, branches and units to advise on the development of a "Project on vocational training for rural workers associated with job creation for cooperatives, handicraft enterprises, agricultural and food processing and preservation enterprises to promote the development of rural industries in Nghe An province, period 2021 - 2025", to submit to the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and decision.

At the conference, the Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 8 collectives and 7 individuals who had outstanding achievements in directing and implementing vocational training for workers associated with job creation and development of small-scale industries and craft villages in the province, period 2016 - 2020.