The Hanoi capital administration has approved a programme togenerate 705,000 jobs, including 23,000 abroad, for the 2011-15 period.
The scheme comes from a pressure of a boom inworkforce, which, as forecast by the municipal Service of Labour, WarInvalids and Social Affairs, is to reach 4.6 million by 2015, or 90,000new comers in each of the next five years.
Consequently, the capital city faces a threat of between 180,000 and 200,000 unemployed annually.
The new move focuses on labour-intensive sectors such as industriesand services while calling for restructuring agriculture and ruraleconomy into commercial production and developing crafts villages orcrafts streets to provide massive jobs for rural workforce.
Efforts will be made to attract foreign investments, which areconsidered sources ideal for on-spot labour exports. The scheme alsoaims to boost labour exports to traditional markets such as Japan , theRepublic of Korea and Finland and exploring new markets ofgreat potential.
Vocational training is anotherfocus of the scheme in an effort to meet an increasing demand forskilled workers. Rural labour redundancies as victims of urbanisationare subject to vocational training efforts in order to enable them tofind new jobs.
The over 6.4 million strong Hanoinow ranks second in population, following Ho Chi Minh City . Duringthe 2006-09 period, the capital city slotted over 485,000 citizens intojobs, of whom over 15,300 were sent abroad.
This year alone, the municipal administration has set a target of providing jobs for 135,000 work-hands.
The capital city has spent 50 billion VND in vocational training forrural labour redundancies who have lost cultivated land to urbanisation.
More than 70 percent of the graduated apprenticeshave found jobs, showing that the vocational training quality has metmarket demand./.
The scheme comes from a pressure of a boom inworkforce, which, as forecast by the municipal Service of Labour, WarInvalids and Social Affairs, is to reach 4.6 million by 2015, or 90,000new comers in each of the next five years.
Consequently, the capital city faces a threat of between 180,000 and 200,000 unemployed annually.
The new move focuses on labour-intensive sectors such as industriesand services while calling for restructuring agriculture and ruraleconomy into commercial production and developing crafts villages orcrafts streets to provide massive jobs for rural workforce.
Efforts will be made to attract foreign investments, which areconsidered sources ideal for on-spot labour exports. The scheme alsoaims to boost labour exports to traditional markets such as Japan , theRepublic of Korea and Finland and exploring new markets ofgreat potential.
Vocational training is anotherfocus of the scheme in an effort to meet an increasing demand forskilled workers. Rural labour redundancies as victims of urbanisationare subject to vocational training efforts in order to enable them tofind new jobs.
The over 6.4 million strong Hanoinow ranks second in population, following Ho Chi Minh City . Duringthe 2006-09 period, the capital city slotted over 485,000 citizens intojobs, of whom over 15,300 were sent abroad.
This year alone, the municipal administration has set a target of providing jobs for 135,000 work-hands.
The capital city has spent 50 billion VND in vocational training forrural labour redundancies who have lost cultivated land to urbanisation.
More than 70 percent of the graduated apprenticeshave found jobs, showing that the vocational training quality has metmarket demand./.
