For the unemployed, the government offers re-employment training courses that are relevant, practical and effective, so as to better prepare them for re-employment.
For urban and rural workers who want and, are able, to start businesses of their own, the government offers entrepreneurship training courses to enhance their abilities to start small businesses.
For surplus rural workers who want to transfer to non-agricultural fields and urban areas, the government offers vocational training and carries out such special programs to enhance their abilities to get employed in new sectors, it says.
Since 1994, in order to comprehensively improve the quality of workers, China has established a professional qualification certificate system. By the end of 2009, a total of 18.433 million professionals in various fields had obtained the required qualifications, and over 100 million qualification certificates for workers of different skill levels were issued, it says.
