China aims to train some 60 million rural laborers from 2003 to
2010, according to sources with a national forum on rural
unemployment in?Chongqing Municipality Saturday.
Early in September, six ministries including the Ministry of
Agriculture and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security jointly
launched a rural laborer training plan to help China's
under-educated rural laborers gain professional skills and find
urban employment.
The plan also includes a program providing professional training
to the 200 million rural laborers who have already been employed in
urban regions.
Statistics show that China now has some 150 million redundant
rural laborers and the number increases by six million every
year.
Only 9.1 percent of the rural laborers have received
professional training, making it difficult for rural laborers to
find stable urban employment.
(Xinhua News Agency September 28, 2003)