China will push forward a lifelong professional skills training system as part of the efforts to improve the competence¹ of the workforce² and boost high-quality development.

 

中国将推行终身职业技能训练系统以提高劳动者能力促进高质量发展。

 

With the goal of promoting employment and entrepreneurship, a lifelong professional skills training system will be established and supported to provide equally accessible skills training to all the workers in both urban and rural areas in the entire course of their career, according to a decision at the meeting.

 

The training system, which also aims to instill craftsmanship³ and quality awareness⁴, will help alleviate⁵ the structural⁶ shortage of skilled talents, improve total factor productivity and move the economy to the medium-high end of global value chain. 

 

"Lifelong professional skills training is a pressing task in the process of achieving economic transformation⁷ and upgrading and high-quality development," Li said.

 

"While the demographic dividend⁸ was well leveraged⁹ during the earlier stages of development, it is a more skilled and high-quality workforce that is crucial to high-quality development going forward," Li said. 

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