Vocational training will focus on enhancing skills for the workforce in emerging fields like semiconductor chips, hydrogen and carbon credits in the coming time to meet market demand, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The ministry will continue perfecting the policy and legal system to synchronously develop the labor market, improve the market intermediaries, widen the labour market information system and increase connection between workforce supply and demand.

There are over 1,800 vocational education schools in Vietnam.

In the first six months of this year, the labour force aged 15 and over across the country was 52.5 million people, an increase of 196,600 over the same period.

Employed workers are 51.4 million people, an increase of 195,700 ones over the same period.