New guideline aims to impart skills training to 30m people by 2027

China will channel increasing efforts and resources to produce skilled workers for industries facing talent shortage, with the move also aiming to let people land jobs and increase their incomes using the improved skills.

The State Council, China's Cabinet, has recently unveiled a guideline which claims to train over 30 million people with government subsidies for high-tech industries and industries facing skilled worker shortages, including modern manufacturing, digital economy, services and low-altitude economy, by the end of 2027.

Company employees, college graduates and migrant workers are major target groups of the skills training program.

The guideline encourages companies, vocational schools and colleges, private and public skills training bases to optimize their training patterns with more comprehensive evaluation and job services for skills learners.

Authorized skills evaluation organizations and institutes are directed to perform high-quality evaluation work and make efforts to increase the credibility, influence and social recognition of skills certificates. The authorized organizations and institutes can also give suggestions or guidance to employers to let skills workers get fairer payment based on their professional competence and job values they've created.