General Secretary and President Lam chaired a working session with the Ministry of Home Affairs on the quality of Vietnam's workforce, solutions to sustainable jobs in rural, urban, and ethnic minority areas, and human resource training in the new development phase.
Concluding the working session, the top leader proposed generating local jobs by raising agriculture job value, shifting from raw, low-productivity production to high-value, high-tech agriculture, green agriculture, circular economy, production according to standards and regulations on origin, green logistics processing, and e-commerce.
“It's necessary to focus on developing rural industries, craft villages, industrial clusters, small-scale industries, agricultural product processing, mechanical services, transportation, trade, environment, renewable energy fit for each region, developing OCOP, rural tourism, community tourism, cooperative economy, new-style cooperatives, household economy, chain linkages and rural entrepreneurship,” Mr. Lam said.
The Party and State leader urged for creating sustainable jobs in ethnic minority areas, linked with unleashing internal resources for sustainable poverty reduction and preserving cultural identity. He stressed the need to reform human resource training by building a national skills development system and shifting human resource training from meeting immediate needs to preparing for the nation's long-term competitiveness.
