The northern province of Quang Ninh has built a master plan on human resources development to 2020, with a vision to 2030 ,thus meeting the requirements on renovation and development of modern economic sectors.

The plant was developed by Quang Ninh’s Department of Planning and Investment in cooperation with the US-based Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm.

The 3,860 billion VND (181 million USD) plan comprises 18 projects on human resources development, with some of them being launched in 2015, such as a public awareness campaign on vocational training, capacity development measures for civil servants and incentives for skilled workers.

The plan will contribute to the modernisation process and will transform the province’s economy into a modern service and industrial economy with highly-developed services, green production methods and advanced technologies by 2030

Furthermore, it aims to support market orientation through the improvement of the workforce, develop a suitable training base, and strengthen the quality of education.

The plan is to boost the province’s labour force to 870,000 workers, with 89 percent being highly trained. The workforce in the service and industry sector are expected to increase to 44 percent, and 35 percent, respectively in the agricultural, fisheries and forestry sector is expected to shrink to 21 percent in 2020.

The vision to 2030 foresees a total labour force of 990,000 workers for the province. Productivity is expected to to rise from 110 million VND in 2013 (5.100 USD) to 197 million (9.200 USD) in 2020.-VNA