Students at Tuyen Quang Technical and Technological Vocational College during a hands-on automotive technology training session
Training aligned with real-world demand
Between 2020 and 2025, Vietnam’s central government issued a series of policies aimed at developing high-quality human resources to meet reform and modernization requirements. These include regulations on political theory training, a national strategy for attracting and utilizing talent through 2030, reforms to leadership training programs, and a long-term strategy for vocational education development through 2045.
Translating those national directives into local action, Tuyen Quang has rolled out multiple provincial programs and schemes focused on workforce development. Among them are a human resource development scheme for 2021–2025, a program to build digital skills for national digital transformation, a tourism workforce development scheme through 2025, and provincial policies offering incentives for talent attraction, postgraduate training, and foreign language development.
According to the provincial Department of Education and Training, Tuyen Quang has more than 500,000 people of working age, with over 60 percent employed in agriculture. While this provides a sizable labor pool, it also highlights the need for skills upgrading and structural labor shifts. From 2021 to 2025, more than 90,000 workers received vocational training across the province, with over 80 percent securing stable employment afterward.
Alongside vocational education, the province has invested in high-quality human resources. Each year, hundreds of students are selected for training at leading universities in Vietnam and abroad through cooperative programs. During the 2021–2025 period, thousands of officials, civil servants, and public employees took part in professional training courses. Support was also provided for postgraduate studies and foreign language training for 472 officials, as well as professional development programs for nearly 1,000 commune-level People’s Council delegates.
Woodsland Tuyen Quang Joint Stock Company has attracted a large number of highly skilled workers
Mr. Nguyen Minh Anh Tuan, president of Tan Trao University, said the institution plans to enroll around 1,300 undergraduate students in the 2025–2026 academic year across 17 majors, including economics, nursing, information technology, data science, cultural tourism, and political science. He noted that financial support policies from central and provincial authorities have helped attract more students to higher education, contributing to the province’s growing pool of skilled workers.
Breakthroughs in human resource development linked to digital transformation
As the digital economy and digital society take shape, Tuyen Quang has prioritized improving digital literacy, information technology skills, and foreign language proficiency among officials and workers. Several agencies have moved early on digital transformation, improving efficiency while creating more modern and professional working environments.
All officials and civil servants now have email accounts, leaders use specialized digital signatures, and agencies at all levels conduct paperless meetings. Online public services at the highest level currently account for between 80 and 87 percent of total services, with nearly 90 percent of administrative results delivered digitally.
Pham Ninh Thai, director of the provincial Department of Science and Technology, said Tuyen Quang currently maintains 1,868 community digital technology groups with more than 10,000 members. In 2024 and the first eight months of 2025, more than 2,540 officials and public employees received training in digital transformation. Most recently, over 4,000 provincial officials participated in training on the application of artificial intelligence, a move local authorities describe as a breakthrough in workforce development.
In its draft political report for the 2025–2030 term, the province sets out clear workforce targets. These include training and retraining all officials and public employees based on job positions, ensuring at least 85 percent of leadership and management officials meet political theory standards, and raising the share of commune-level officials with university degrees or higher to 70 percent. Tuyen Quang also aims to increase the proportion of trained workers to at least 72 percent, with at least 30 percent holding formal qualifications.
To reach those goals, provincial authorities are focusing on practical measures, including reviewing the existing workforce to align training with real needs, expanding cooperation with political schools and academies inside and outside the province, and assigning young, female, and ethnic minority officials to grassroots levels for hands-on experience.
Vocational education institutions are being encouraged to overhaul curricula and teaching methods to better match business demand. Greater emphasis is being placed on digital skills, foreign languages, and soft skills, alongside investment in modern training facilities and equipment aligned with real production technologies. International cooperation in vocational training is also being expanded to help local workers access advanced technologies and modern training models.
Tuyen Quang’s sustained focus on human resource development is beginning to deliver visible results. Local authorities point to rising labor productivity, the emergence of new industries, and improving living standards, alongside the development of a more service-oriented and enabling administration. Together, these changes are helping to lay a solid foundation for the province as it moves forward into a new phase of development.
Nguyen Thanh Hieu
From a Vietnamese news on Tuyen Quang online
