Chapter V Vocational Education and Training

Article 44 The State develops vocational education in accordance with law, promotes vocational training and encourages the workers to raise the level of their vocational skills and to increase their employability and capability of starting undertakings.

Article 45 People’s governments at or above the county level shall, in light of the need of economic and social development and market demand, formulate and implement plans for the development of vocational capabilities.

Article 46 People’s governments at or above the county level shall improve coordination under an overall plan, encourage and support various types of vocational colleges and schools, vocational skills training institutions and employing units to, in accordance with law, provide pre-employment training, on-the-job training, re-employment training and training for starting undertakings, and shall encourage the workers to participate in various forms of training.

Article 47 Local people’s governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall, in light of the market demand and the trend of industrial development, encourage enterprises to do a better job in vocational education and training and give them guidance in this endeavor.

Vocational colleges and schools and vocational skills training institutions shall keep close ties with enterprises, in order to combine teaching with production, serve economic development, and to cultivate people for practical use and skilled workers.

An enterprise shall allocate funds for their workers’ education according to the relevant regulations of the State, in order to carry out vocational skill training and continued education among the workers. Article 48 The State takes measures to establish a sound labor reserve system. Local people’s governments at or above the county level shall provide a certain period of vocational education and training to the graduates from junior and senior middle schools who need to find jobs, in order to enable them to acquire the relevant vocational qualifications or the skills of certain professions.

Article 49 Local people’s governments at all levels shall encourage and support employment training, help the unemployed to upgrade their vocational skills and increase their employability and their capability of starting undertakings. The unemployed who participate in such training shall, in accordance with relevant regulations, be entitled to receive the training subsidies provided by the governments.

Article 50 Local people’s governments at all levels shall take effective measures to make arrangement for and give guidance to the rural workers who go to cities for employment to participate in skill training in this respect, and encourage various types of training institutions to provide skill training to such rural workers to increase their employability and capability of starting undertakings.

Article 51 The State applies a vocational certification system to the workers who are engaged in such special types of work as those involving public security, human health, safety of people’s lives and property. The specific measures in this respect shall be formulated by the State Council.