Focus on training highly skilled workers

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shakes hands with young officials participating in the management of the construction of Long Thanh International Airport during his visit to work on the project on August 2, 2025. Photo: Cong Nghia

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shook hands to encourage young officials participating in the management of the construction of Long Thanh International Airport during his visit and work on the project on August 2, 2025. Photo: Cong Nghia

However, the issue of quantity and quality of labor resources, especially labor in a series of new technology industries such as information technology, semiconductors, chip manufacturing, aviation, logistics, etc., has not been prepared in time, which will significantly affect development opportunities.
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Policy must go hand in hand with action

For many years now, Dong Nai province has been transforming its model of attracting domestic and foreign investment in a selective manner. The province has rejected investors with outdated technology, labor-intensive processing and assembly, and negative impacts on the environment. Instead, the province "welcomes" projects with high technology content, high added value, less labor-intensive, and environmentally friendly. The province's investment attraction motto in the new period was reaffirmed at the 1st Congress of the Dong Nai Provincial Party Committee, term 2025-2030, with the goal of high growth associated with green and sustainable growth.

“The demand for highly skilled labor from businesses in the province is very large and will be much larger in the coming years. However, high schools, students and parents do not have information about which occupations are lacking labor and how much labor is lacking to guide students. Therefore, the province needs to forecast the demand for high-quality labor relatively accurately, as a basis for students to have confidence and motivation to choose the right career.”
Dr. NGUYEN KHANH CUONG, Principal of Lilama 2 International Technology College

To change the investment attraction model according to the new trend, in addition to the infrastructure and policy mechanisms, the issue of high-quality human resources providing businesses with stable and effective operations plays a very important role. This is also a major concern of high-tech investors when evaluating and considering the necessary factors to choose an investment location. On the other hand, promoting the attraction of high-tech investment, in addition to the purpose of increasing revenue for the budget, is also the issue of creating jobs for people. Therefore, if there is a lack of high-quality labor, especially in new fields, it will be very difficult to develop comprehensively.

Professor Ha Hun Koo, former Dean of the Logistics Department, Asia Pacific Logistics School of Inha University, one of the leading universities in Korea, has recommended to the province right from the beginning of the construction of Long Thanh Airport on the issue of human resource training. Professor Ha Hun Koo said: When there is a large airport, Dong Nai will have many opportunities to attract new technology industries such as: semiconductors, chip manufacturing, aviation industry, logistics, biotechnology... These are all fields that bring great added value, but are very "picky" about labor, mostly using only highly qualified human resources.

At a recent working session between the People's Committee of Dong Nai province and the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City on the content of development consulting cooperation for the period 2025-2030, Comrade Le Truong Son, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized the importance of the province's high-quality human resource training strategy. Accordingly, the province hopes that the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City will research and advise the province on solutions, mechanisms and policies to mobilize universities and colleges to participate more deeply in the training process to have a high-quality human resource team, especially in key areas.

No delay

Without waiting for Long Thanh Airport to be put into operation, right from the start of construction of the airport, the winning bidder for this "billion-dollar super project" had to struggle to find many senior personnel positions in project management. Currently preparing to enter the exploitation phase, the Long Thanh Airport Labor Recruitment Council is facing many difficulties in recruiting the operating team. The Council had to extend the second deadline for receiving recruitment applications for a series of positions with attractive salaries, requiring high qualifications and good skills.

There have been quite a few foreign investors in the high-tech sector coming to Dong Nai to seek new investment opportunities, including enterprises in the semiconductor sector. For example, the US Coherent Group has only been exploring investment opportunities in Dong Nai since 2023, but by 2024, the Provincial People's Committee had granted an investment certificate to this group with 3 high-tech projects. Among them, the first semiconductor factory project has come into operation in Nhon Trach 1 Industrial Park. With the remaining 2 projects, the group continues to implement investment steps, promising to soon come into operation.
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According to experts and scientists, the province's strategy to attract high-tech capital in the new period is very correct. Successfully implementing this strategy is very important, helping the province realize the target of continuous double-digit economic growth in the coming years. However, to truly grasp the opportunity, first of all, the province needs to have a systematic strategy for training high-quality human resources, associated with drastic solutions and actions. Specifically, it is necessary to invest in and develop a number of key training facilities in high-tech industries, while at the same time linking with the province's investment attraction trends. The province needs to issue outstanding policies to attract highly qualified staff, lecturers and scientists in high-tech fields. In addition, it is necessary to promote and strengthen the connection between training facilities and enterprises in human resource training, thereby achieving the dual goals of training, supplying and using high-quality labor.

Dr. Dang Anh Tuan, Vice Principal in charge of Dong Nai University, said: The Resolution of the 1st Provincial Party Congress, term 2025-2030, has determined that Dong Nai University must be a high-quality university. However, the current training scale of the school is still modest with over 5,000 students, mainly in pedagogical fields, and the facilities are still very difficult. Therefore, the school is recommending to the province many synchronous policies on facilities and high-quality human resources for training, thereby being able to increase the training scale to 15,000 students or more by 2030 and expand new training majors, including majors in the high-tech field.

Meanwhile, Dr. Lam Thanh Hien, Principal of Lac Hong University, said: The school is making efforts to assess training programs according to ASEAN and US standards, connect with businesses to improve training programs, and transfer technology. Along with that, the school has cooperated with foreign universities, including the US and Taiwan (China) to exchange lecturers and students, and innovate training programs. One of the key training programs that the school is aiming for is information technology, semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, logistics, etc.

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