Source: CCTV.com
02-02-2009 11:12
Right after the spring festival holiday, governments at all levels and agencies across China have already started to beef up vocational training for migrant workers, college graduates and laid-off workers. The training is designed to help those who were badly hit by the global financial crisis to land jobs.
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| Governments at all levels and agencies across China have already started to beef up vocational training for migrant workers, college graduates and laid-off workers. |
Labor unions around China are the primary bodies initiating vocational programmes for migrant workers.
This technical institution in the inland province of Hubei is teaching labor law and production safety to migrant workers who have returned home.
Zhang Yi, deputy chairman of Yichang Labor Union, Hubei Province, says, "we plan to organize three universities and ten technical schools to train more than 10-thousand migrant workers. For that we will spend more than 20 million yuan."
Training programmes in many provinces teach skills like housekeeping, Chinese massage, child care, auto mechanics and locksmith. The practical training has attracted many migrant workers.
Other training aims to help workers find jobs in railway and infrastructure construction, the power sector, and the rebuilding of quake-hit areas, which are the major objectives of the 4 trillion yuan stimulus package.
Fan Dezhi, secretary of CPC Huating County Comm., Gansu Prov., says, "from a survey among returned migrant workers, we found their biggest problem is the lack of training and knowledge of technology. Once they receive training, they will be able to fit into new jobs."
According to a joint circular issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, more than 370 billion yuan will be invested in upgrading rural infrastructure in 2009 and 2010. This will create a large number of jobs for rural workers who find seeking a job in urban areas increasingly difficult.
China's urban unemployment rate was 4.2 percent at the end of 2008, up 0.2 percentage points year on year.
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