Ministry of Labor, Invalid and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has submitted a national plan to generate jobs for eight million people by 2010 to the Government for approval.
Of the figure, 400.000-500.000 would be sent aboard as guest workers, said Le Bach Hong, deputy of MoLISA said.
Hong added at least 1.8 million people are in need of employment this year, including 1.3 million people just entering the workforce.
Under the new plan, the ministry would promote vocational training programs to create jobs, and raise the quality of the labor export sector.
The ministry would also like to launch a website to provide the labor market with information as well as establish three major job centers in South, Central, and North Vietnam.
In addition, it would upgrade existing job centers to facilitate links between workers and employers, Hong further said, revealing that MoLISA plans to provide vocational training for 1.5 million people annually in order to bring the rate of skilled laborers up to 26 per cent by 2010.
The plan calls on the government to offer preferential loans for family-run businesses, small and medium-sized enterprises, farms, and craft villages.
Last year, the communist country provided jobs for 1.6 million people, of whom more than 70,500 were sent aboard as guest workers. During the year, the unemployment proportion in urban areas dropped to 5.3 per cent from a rate 5.6 per cent in 2004.
Vietnam now has more than 44 million people of working age. Of the figure, as many as 4.4 million are working in the State-owned sector, some 38.4 million in the non-state sector and 687,000 in FDI.
By 2010, Vietnam’s population will reach approximately 88.3 million, of which the number of laborers of working age will be 57 million. The national economy will need more than 49 million laborers.
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