President Pakistan China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCJCCI) Shah Faisal Afridi in a meeting with General Manager Shandong Shifeng Group Co Liu Chengqiang expressed his views that Vocational training in Pakistan needs to be redesigned in line with the Chinese labour intensive industries. Many Chinese industries are seeking to relocate from China to Pakistan and they will require skilled manpower. Pakistan can utilize its unemployed manpower by providing technical training in CPEC-related work.
Pakistan owns the 9th largest labour force in the world. According to the Labour Force Survey 2017-2018, 4.40 million people out of 63.890 million workforces are unemployed and rest is employed to jobs that do not meet their area of expertise. China is interested in relocating its industries to economically viable locations and Pakistan is on the top of the list. He termed this the great industrial transfer and assured that it can produce plenty of opportunities for Pakistanis.
China should assist Pakistan in empowering its labour force in line with its industrial requirements by formulating collaborative research institutes and capacity building organizations that would impart vocational training to Pakistani labour as per Chinese work ethics including language and communication. He urged the government to take appropriate steps for modifying the existing vocational institutes to generate more work forces for industrial joint ventures of China and Pakistan.
