Mai Son, Standing Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee; Dr. Pham Vu Quoc Binh, Deputy Director General of the Directorate of Vocational Education under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs; Dr. Vo Xuan Hoai, Deputy Director of the National Innovation Center under the Ministry of Planning and Investment; and Chung Won-seok, General Director of Hana Micron Vina Co., Ltd. in the Van Trung Industrial Park co-chaired the event.

In his opening remarks, Mai Son affirmed that Bac Giang province, with its strategic position and development potential, has been witnessing the boom of the semiconductors industry.

“However, to fully tap this potential, we need to focus on developing a high-quality workforce that meets market and technology requirements,” he said, adding Bac Giang province has been focusing on directing competent units to ensure the best conditions to welcome investors.

At the seminar, 15 presentations by experts, scientists, representatives of businesses, universities, and state management agencies assessed the demand, scale, structure, and technical labour characteristics of enterprises in the semiconductors industry in Bac Giang province in particular and the whole country in general; analysed the training capacity of vocational education institutions inside and outside the province in association with the labour demand of businesses.

Concluding the event, Mai Son acknowledged the wholeheartedly opinions and directional recommendations of the experts and scientists. This is the basis to help Bac Giang province devise and deploy synchronous and comprehensive solutions, ensuring feasibility in training, developing and supplying human resources for the semiconductor industry.

He emphasised that Bac Giang boasts abundant human resources with about 1.1 million people of working age. The province is also promoting many activities to attract workers from other localities. At the same time, it will continue to pay attention to reforming administrative procedures to create favourable conditions for investors.

The seminar served as an important foundation for building a human resources training plan for the province’s semiconductor and AI industry.

Based on the opinions shared by experts and scientists, the provincial official asked participating agencies, organisations and businesses to urgently coordinate with the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to propose solutions related to human resources training for the semiconductor and AI industry from now to 2030. This will contribute to realising the goal of turning Bac Giang into a modern industrial province in 2030, he noted.

Within the framework of the seminar, cooperation agreements on semiconductor human resources training were signed between Hana Micron Vina Co., Ltd., the Bac Giang-based Vietnam - Korea College of Technology and the Bac Giang College of Industrial Technology; and between the Hanoi University of Industry and the Bac Giang College of Industrial Technology.

Tuong Vi

 

 

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