On July 8, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters, General Secretary and President To Lam chaired a working session with the Ministry of Home Affairs on the quality of Vietnamese labor, sustainable job creation solutions and human resource training in the new development stage.
Concluding, the General Secretary and President emphasized that the current bottleneck is not the lack of labor in quantity, but mainly the lack of labor suitable for development requirements; lack of professional skills, discipline, industrial style, foreign languages, digital skills, green skills; lack of skilled technicians and workers, practical human resources, technology human resources, and intermediate management human resources.
Therefore, labor quality assessment must shift from valuing quantity to valuing quality, efficiency of use and ability to contribute to labor productivity.
Not only asking how many people have jobs, but also asking whether those jobs are formal, sustainable, productive and have high value; whether workers have skills, income, insurance, lifelong learning opportunities and career change or not.
The final measure is the quality of jobs, the quality of human resources and the contribution of workers to national competitiveness.
The General Secretary and President requested to create sustainable jobs in urban areas associated with new growth models, businesses and quality of life. This is a place that concentrates industry, services, science and technology, innovation, digital economy, green economy and modern business models.
Therefore, it is not only creating more jobs, but creating better, more formal jobs with productivity, income, insurance, skills and career development opportunities for workers.
General Secretary and President clearly stated that innovation in human resource training must build a national skill development system. Human resource training must shift from meeting immediate needs to preparing the nation's long-term competitiveness.
The focus is to change thinking from "diplomacy" to "profession", from training according to available capabilities to training according to orders, according to skill standards and according to output results.
Besides creating domestic jobs, it is necessary to look broader at job creation channels, improve skills and supplement high-quality human resources for the economy. In the context of rapidly shifting technology, supply chains, labor and knowledge, we must both create sustainable domestic jobs and bring Vietnamese workers to the international market to learn, while selectively attracting knowledge, experts and talents to serve national development, especially key and strategic areas.
The General Secretary and President assigned the Government Party Committee to direct the development of a Project on national human resource development and modern labor market; review the current situation of labor quality, build a map of labor and skill shortages by sector, region, and locality.
Develop an annual monitoring index set on labor quality, sustainable employment, training, income, social insurance and level of employee and business satisfaction.
The General Secretary and President requested to build a modern, transparent, flexible, and integrated labor market; shift from the advantage of cheap labor to the advantage of high-quality human resources; and to complete the labor market information system, interconnecting jobs, insurance, training, businesses, and population data.
General Secretary and President affirmed that the quality of Vietnamese labor is a priceless asset of the nation. Caring for workers is caring for the future of the country. Investing in human resources is not only social policy, but also a national development strategy.
If we know how to ignite, train, use, protect and effectively transform human resources, we will turn population advantages into development advantages, turn aspirations into strengths, and bring the country to develop quickly and sustainably.
