The plan aims to build a comprehensive, sustainable, and modern labor market for the Capital, focusing on improving workforce quality in line with restructuring toward a digital and green economy.
It promotes vocational skills training, the application of digital technologies, and talent attraction to drive productivity breakthroughs while ensuring a flexible and resilient employment system that adapts effectively to socio-economic changes.
Specifically, the city targets a workforce training rate of 75% to 80%, with 55% to 60% holding degrees or certificates. Average labor productivity growth is expected to reach 7.0% to 9.5% annually. The proportion of workers with basic information technology skills is targeted at 80% to 90%.
On average, the city aims to create 180,000 new jobs annually, maintain the overall unemployment rate below 2.5%, and keep urban unemployment below 3%.
The proportion of working-age laborers participating in social insurance is expected to reach 60%, including 10% of farmers and informal workers participating in voluntary social insurance.
The proportion of the workforce participating in unemployment insurance is targeted at 50%, while health insurance coverage is expected to reach 98% of the population.
The city will complete and modernize its labor market information system, ensuring data is digitized and interconnected among specialized agencies, local administrative units, and businesses.
Hanoi will also connect its labor market data with the national network and expand links with regional and international markets, especially Vietnam's key overseas labor markets.
The city will study and issue specific support mechanisms to implement employment programs for vulnerable groups.
It will review and propose amendments to legal documents related to employment policies and labor supply and demand, ensuring alignment with market principles, international conventions ratified by Vietnam, and the legitimate interests of workers and businesses, while meeting practical needs and supporting the development of a "Civilized, Cultured, Modern" Capital.
Hanoi aims to become a high-quality education center for the country by shifting training models from supply-based to demand-driven approaches aligned with business needs, focusing on digital skills, foreign languages, and the integration of artificial intelligence.
Vocational institutions will be encouraged to collaborate with experts from major corporations to design modern training programs that meet market demands, especially in key and high-tech sectors.
The city will standardize labor and enterprise data, establish a "living data warehouse," and operate an "AI brain" to analyze employment and labor market data.
It will implement comprehensive solutions to expand coverage of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance.
Digital transformation and industrial applications will be strengthened in benefit payment and policy implementation to ensure transparency and efficiency, including the effective use of the VssID digital social insurance application.
The city will launch campaigns to raise public awareness of "green jobs," "green skills," and "digital skills."
Communication programs will be modern and creative, targeting young workers through social media and digital platforms, along with regular events such as Green and Digital Career Days, the Capital Sustainable Employment Forum, and green startup programs for students.
Hanoi will focus on restructuring its industrial sector toward high-tech, green technology, circular economy models, and low-carbon emissions, prioritizing the development of key industrial ecosystems such as semiconductors, supporting industries, information technology, and digital technology.
Strategic data sectors, including artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things will also be prioritized.
The private sector will be developed as a key growth driver, with the city aiming to have about 300,000 actively operating enterprises by 2030.