Can Tho targets unemployment rate at no more than 3 percent by 2030
The Party Committee of Can Tho city has issued a programme on vocational education and job provision for 2021 - 2030, aiming to reduce the unemployment rate to not higher than 4 percent by 2025 and 3 percent by 2030.
Students of the Can Tho Vocational College at the school's research and innovation club. (Photo: baocantho.com.vn)
Can Tho (VNA) – The PartyCommittee of Can Tho city has issued a programme on vocational education andjob provision for 2021 - 2030, aiming to reduce the unemployment rate to nothigher than 4 percent by 2025 and 3 percent by 2030.
The overall goal of Programme No. 25is to reform and improve the quality of vocational education and job provisionwhile meeting the labour market’s demand and socio-economic developmentrequirements in a timely manner.
In particular, the Mekong Delta city looksto raise the rate of trained workers to 80 - 85 percent, workers gaining jobsafter vocational training to at least 80 percent, and give jobs to 252,500 people by 2025. Therespective figures are hoped to increase to 85 - 90 percent, 85 percent, and 277,000 by 2030.
To that end, the municipal PartyCommittee requested increased communications to raise public awareness ofvocational education and job provision, stronger engagement of the privatesector in the work, and overhauling of relevant mechanisms and policies.
A young man seeks job information at the Can Tho employment service centre. (Photo: VNA)
It ordered the network of local training establishments be restructured, thequality of career coaching, vocational education, and employment consultingservices be improved, vocational education be aligned with the labour market, employmentservice providers be connected with vocational training establishments, and thelabour market’s development be facilitated.
In 2021, Can Tho failed to achievemany socio-economic targets, including those on vocational training and jobprovision, due to severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. It provided trainingfor 40,118 people and jobs for 43,498, equivalent to 80.24 percent and 86.48percent of the year’s targets, according to the Party Committee.
The city plans to raise this year's rate oftrained workers to 80 percent, compared to 75.8 percent in 2021./.
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Students of the Can Tho Vocational College at the school's research and innovation club. (Photo: baocantho.com.vn) 
A young man seeks job information at the Can Tho employment service centre. (Photo: VNA) 
