Leaders of Son La province exchanged with young people at the dialogue conference between the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and young people of ethnic groups.

Implementing the set policies and orientations, Son La province has had many solutions in building mechanisms and policies to encourage, create conditions for development and improve the quality of human resources, especially the team of leaders, managers, business administrators, skilled workers and scientific and technological staff.

Son La province has paid attention to investing and upgrading the infrastructure system of training and vocational training establishments. Training forms and training linkages have been expanded, contributing to creating quality human resources, providing highly skilled workers for production, promoting labor restructuring, serving the cause of industrialization and modernization, gradually meeting the development requirements of the province.

The assessment shows that the quality of human resources in Son La province has been gradually improved and enhanced in all three basic factors: health; professional skills, ethics; labor structure, shifting in a positive direction, reducing agricultural labor, increasing industrial and service labor.

The quality of education and training at all levels of Son La province has been improved, gradually narrowing the gap between disadvantaged and advantaged areas. Training institutions have transformed from education and training to vocational education, and the training program has focused on practice and internship; the training structure has been diversified. Labor policy consulting, vocational training, employment and labor export activities have been promoted; the work of attracting high-quality human resources has been focused on...

Immediately after the Resolution was issued, to implement Resolution No. 09-NQ/TU dated January 21, 2021 of the Son La Provincial Party Committee, Party committees, authorities, departments, branches, sectors, the Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations developed plans and organized research, dissemination, and implementation of Resolution No. 09 to ensure timeliness and suitability to the situation of the locality and agencies and units.

At 100% of district, city and party committees directly under the Son La Provincial Party Committee, they have led, directed and organized conferences to study, disseminate and implement Resolution No. 09-NQ/TU. In particular, they have identified specific groups of tasks and solutions for human resource development closely linked to the local socio-economic development strategy, to solve and create jobs, reduce unemployment, increase income and improve people's lives, ensure social security; improve the quality of general education; train skilled and highly skilled workers; identify improving the quality of the team of leaders, managers, civil servants and public employees as a decisive factor and the responsibility of the entire political system; focus on creating an environment, mobilizing investment resources, taking care of training and developing human resources.

Comrade Hoang Quoc Khanh, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Son La province, informed: Along with building and perfecting mechanisms and policies, creating favorable conditions for human resource development, Son La province has also had many specific solutions in developing human resources suitable for each locality. In particular, the Standing Committee of the Son La Provincial Party Committee has issued and implemented Project No. 03-DA/TU dated December 30, 2021 on building and creating a source of young cadres, female cadres, and ethnic minority cadres under the management of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee until 2030. Focus on leading and directing the good implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws on human resource development; directing the building and perfecting of mechanisms and policies to promote human resource development, creating a good working environment for talented people to promote their capacity and feel secure in their long-term work.

Every year, in districts and cities of Son La province, job fairs are held to introduce vocational training to both students and parents.

In recent times, Son La province has also focused on directing the improvement of training quality of universities, colleges, intermediate schools and vocational training institutions in the area; continuing to build Son La into a training center of the Northwest region and the northern provinces of Laos. Paying attention to training, fostering and developing cadres, civil servants and public employees at all levels. Attracting and developing human resources, especially high-quality human resources, to meet the fourth industrial revolution, as a premise to promote socio-economic development of the province, contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 15th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025.

In the human resource development roadmap for the period 2021-2025, Son La province has set specific goals, such as: Continuing to increase the proportion of trained human resources in the entire provincial economy with a reasonable structure. The proportion of trained workers in 2025 will reach 65%, of which 30% will be granted diplomas and certificates; by 2030, the proportion of trained workers will reach 75%, of which 40% will be granted diplomas and certificates. The proportion of workers by 2025 will decrease to 58.9% of the total social workforce; by 2030, it will decrease to 50.7%; the proportion of trained workers will increase to 51.2% in 2025 and 60.7% in 2030.

By 2025, Son La province strives to have 100% of provincial and district-level officials and civil servants with university and post-graduate degrees; maintaining this until 2030 and the following years; 100% of commune-level officials and civil servants meeting standards or higher, maintaining this until 2030 and the following years; the proportion of provincial and district-level officials with university and post-graduate degrees in 2025 will reach 70%, and by 2030 it will reach about 85%. Pay attention to implementing policies to develop ethnic minority human resources; by 2025, the proportion of ethnic minority people of working age receiving appropriate vocational training will reach 35%, of which 65% will be ethnic minority workers between the ages of 18 and 35...

Son La province also strives to provide labor market information and job placement for 35% of the workforce every year. Create conditions for sending workers to work abroad and in domestic industrial zones. The total number of workers with jobs in the 2021-2025 period will reach 100,000 people. By 2025, the unemployment rate in urban areas will be below 3.65% and by 2030 it will reach below 3.5%.

To achieve the set targets, Son La province has been strengthening information, propaganda, raising awareness for cadres, civil servants, public employees, people, businesses, employers and society about the meaning and importance of human resource development. From there, creating high consensus in leadership, direction and organization of implementation of tasks and solutions on human resource development.

Continue to research, develop and perfect mechanisms and policies on training, fostering, attracting and rewarding talents to create favorable conditions for human resource development; increase the mobilization of resources from enterprises to invest in human resource development, solve employment problems for workers and develop the education and training sector. Mobilize and use resources reasonably and effectively to serve human resource development. Balance and allocate the state budget to develop human resources, ensuring that it is suitable to the practical conditions of Son La province.

Quoc Tuan