Raising skilled industrial workers will boost manufacturing power

The central authorities recently issued a guideline document, saying China will improve the skills cultivation system for industrial workers, raise their incomes and further enhance the income distribution system by increasing the proportion of labor remuneration in the primary distribution.

With changes in its population structure, China is now transitioning from tapping demographic dividends to talent dividends, and it needs to comprehensively improve its population quality.

Promoting a new type of industrialization and accelerating its development into a manufacturing powerhouse have been listed as important tasks in China's bid to build itself into a modern socialist country with Chinese characteristics.

At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in an intelligent and green manner, and integrated development has emerged in multiple fields. This not only needs high-tech innovative talents, but also raises higher requirements for industrial workers.

In the global manufacturing industry, automation is replacing a large number of ordinary assembly-line workers, and the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing also requires workers to master multidisciplinary skills and expertise.

The guideline document says China will increase the training of composite technical and skilled talents, cultivating talents badly needed for new quality productive forces and high-quality development, and comprehensively advancing an education system that can enhance the knowledge of industrial workers.

As the post-1990s become the main body of industrial workers, who pay more attention to the realization of self-value and the pursuit of personal development, more measures must be taken to safeguard industrial workers' economic rights and interests, and enhance their sense of accomplishment, happiness and gain, to attract more young people to engage in manufacturing.

21ST CENTURY BUSINESS HERALD