China determined to stabilize, expand employment
By
Xu Hailin
After
China established vocational education and training centers in northwest China's
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, some western officials and media outlets
constantly attacked China with groundless accusations. However, if they had paid
attention to heated discussions about vocational education during China's two
sessions in early March and interpreted China's moves from that perspective,
their misunderstanding of China might be reduced.
On February 23,
2019, the vocational training school teacher (third from left) explained the
cooking knowledge to the students in the Tarim Village, northwest China's
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Photo: Li Fei,
People’s Daily Online
The
Chinese government is determined to stabilize and expand employment.
"Stepping up the development of modern vocational education is a strategic
move that will ease current employment pressure," reads the Government
Work Report that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered on March 5 to the second
session of the 13th National People's Congress.
During
China's rapid growth and current economic transition, technicians and skilled
workers are urgently needed. There are about 280 million migrant workers in
China who are the main workforce for the country's secondary and tertiary
industries. Despite the huge number, highly skilled personnel are still in
short supply as a majority of migrant workers don't have a good academic or
technical background that enable them to be competent. However, China's
industrial development is directly linked with workforce capability.
In
addition, people without wanted skills could face unemployment and be gradually
marginalized. Marginalization will breed antisocial emotions that affect the
stability of a country and its development. This could happen in China or in
any other country.
To
prevent such destabilizing factors, vocational education and training centers
have been established across China for migrant workers to improve themselves
from big cities like Beijing and Shenzhen to smaller ones like Bincheng in East
China's Shandong Province. The Chinese government will allocate 100 billion
yuan ($14.9 billion) to provide training for more than 15 million people to help
them upgrade their skills or switch jobs or industries. The vocational
education and training centers in Xinjiang are along the same lines.
The
underdeveloped education in the autonomous region has limited people from
learning modern work skills. In addition, extremist thinking has forced some
ethnic minority people away from the country's development achievements and
made them feel it is hard to integrate into modern society. Vocational education
will help fix these problems, maintain stability of employment and boost the
development of China.
The
training centers in Xinjiang are part of China's effort to prop up vocational
education and enable more people to gain professional skills.
Since
reform and opening-up, the Chinese government has realized the importance of
the workforce and attached great importance to improving their capability in
both academic and technical aspects.
Enhancing
vocational education is in line with China's lessons learned from development
in the past decades. As China aims to comprehensively develop its economy,
skilled workers will play a key role that affects the speed and quality of
growth.
Source:Global
Times/People’s Daily
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