Migrant workers in eastern China's Shanghai will benefit from
the same training programs as residents do, said officials at the
conclusion of an education symposium.
Shanghai is working to bring migrant workers from outside the
city into its vocational education system, according to sources at
a two-day international symposium on development of a lifelong
education system and a society of learning concluded in Shanghai
Thursday.
The sources said that the move will provide job skills training
for Shanghai's estimated 3.8 million migrant workers.
Xie Maoshu, head of Shanghai Pudong Training School, said that
since his school was founded four years ago, it has offered
occupational training for a total of 5,000 migrant workers from
rural areas, and many of them came from outside the city. The
training ranged from basic computer knowledge, office automation to
some other vocational skills.
Currently, the city has more than 3,300 training programs, which
train 2.3 million people on vocational skills annually.
According to Hao Keming, head of a national research institute
on education development, farmers having received various sorts of
occupational training only accounted for 10 percent of total
farmers in China.
(Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2004)