Preparing for that, municipal authorities are deploying four major solutions: regulating the supply-demand demand; improving the quality of labourers; developing an information system on the labour market; and enhancing State management over the labour market.

These solutions are supported by policies aimed at moving businesses with large employment to outlying areas, managing workers coming from provinces by issuing work cards, boosting exports of workers, and organising vocational training courses for rural labourers in quickly urbanising areas.

The city plans to strengthen its network of vocational training schools and colleges while accelerating the construction tempo of a municipal hi-tech zone to increase the percentage of skilled workers.

Currently, municipal authorities are focusing their efforts on projects for a hi-tech training school in Tu Liem and a Vietnam-Korea Technician School in Dong Anh, both in the vicinity of Hanoi.

Municipal authorities expect that those solutions can help the city obtain the targets of creating around 90,000 jobs each year for the next five-year period, reducing urban unemployment to below 5.5 percent and raising the percentage of trained workers to 60 to 65 percent.

Over the past years, the capital city has increased the number of job recipients from 34,000 in 2000 to 51,000 in 2005 and the percentage of skilled workers from 34 percent to 55.6 percent.

VNA