Create jobs for more than 14,000 employees

05/07/2018 08:10

(BNP) - Since the beginning of the year, the province has created new jobs for 14,287 employees, climbing by 2.1% over the same period last year.

Metal cutting training at Bac Ninh College of Industry

(Source: Bac Ninh Newspaper)

Up to June, 2018, the whole province has 663,100 employees working in economic sectors, of which, the industry-construction sector has 339,500 employees, rising by 4.5% over the same period last year, and the service sector has created jobs for 202,700 employees, up 1.8%, meanwhile the workforce of agro-forestry-fisheries sector has continued to decline.

Vocational training has been gradually improved on quality and associated with market requirements, thus minimizing the costs of training and retraining of enterprises. In the first 6 months, vocational schools in the province have recruited 10,300 students for vocational training, of which rural areas accounted for 85%.