Help the country's migrant workers help themselves
By Zhu Yuan (China Daily)Updated: 2007-01-10 09:58
That so many rural migrant workers consider skill or expertise in a
particular field as an important source of wealth suggests they have a strong
desire to gain knowledge that may help them increase their income.
As
with any worker, vocational training leads to an improvement in the services
they provide and the quality of the manufacturing work they do.
A survey
by the National Statistics Bureau notes that the more education a rural migrant
worker receives, the easier it will be for him or her to adapt to an urban
environment.
The central government has earmarked funds to provide rural
migrant workers with such training.
To increase the access of rural
migrant workers to vocational training, the Poverty Alleviation Office of the
State Council launched the Rain and Dew Program this year to provide
professional training to poverty-stricken rural youths and demobilized soldiers
in rural areas.
This program led to the establishment of the National
Poverty-Stricken Rural Youth Training School in Beijing, the first of its kind. More of these schools will be
set up all over the country. The program is expected to train 5 million rural
youngsters in the four years to come.
The message of this survey is that
much more needs to be done to help rural migrant workers get integrated into
urban life. The easier and faster the process, the earlier the government will
realize its goal of common prosperity.
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