Dong Nai to create jobs for over 90,000 locals in 2014

Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Lam Duy Tin said the province helped 92,000 people land jobs in 2013, 2 percent higher than the plan set for the year.

In the year, 65,000 people were trained with vocational skills, including 7,500 rural labourers. Up to 70 percent of them found jobs.

Job generation efforts helped 8,000 underprivileged households in the province escaped from poverty, lowering the rate of poor families to 1.7 percent. The province targets to reduce the rate to less than 1 percent in 2014.

Dong Nai is applying a poverty line standard of under VND850,000 per month per person for urban people and under VND650,000 per month per person for rural people. The standard will increase in the 2015-2020 period.

In 2013, the province saw 150 new foreign invested projects and existing ones to increase capital. Many projects are scheduled to become operational in 2014 and will need a large number of labourers for their business and production.

The province is working towards a rapid and sustainable economic growth to become an industrial province by 2015.