MOHRSS: During the 15th Five-Year Plan, 1 million high-level and urgently needed technical talents will be trained annually

At a press conference held this morning by the State Council Information Office, a responsible official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security introduced that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the country will increase investment in human capital and accelerate the construction of a high-quality team of technical and skilled talents. Li Zhong, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, stated that efforts will be made to carry out subsidized vocational skills training for 50 million people during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, with an additional 40 million people obtaining skill certificates, including 14 million obtaining certificates at the senior worker level or above. Meanwhile, the knowledge update project for professional and technical talents will be implemented in depth, training and cultivating 1 million high-level, urgently needed, and backbone professional and technical talents annually. (CCTV News)