The General Office of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security ("MOHRSS") has recently distributed the Circular on Strongly Promoting the Work-based Training (the "Circular").
The Circular stresses the need to put in place the work-based training policy set out in the Circular (Ren She Bu Fa [2020] No.30) which requires enhancing support to enterprises that recruit new laborers, scaling up support to enterprises in difficulty and better shoring up major industries. Great efforts will be made to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro firms that recruit people having difficulty in finding jobs in carrying out work-based training, support those SMEs and micro firms that have to cease work and business operations due to the temporary hardship in production and operations caused by the COVID-19 epidemic in organizing and delivering work-based training among their employees and support enterprises of all kinds in such industries as foreign trade, hospitality, catering services, culture and tourism in conducting work-based training, in a bid to ensure this year's goals and tasks for the vocational skill upgrading program will be accomplished. Additionally, the Circular requires that each region may tailor various policies for work-based training in detail, innovate and improve the policy system for the vocational skill upgrading program, and make clear the management service procedures and the subsidy standard, adding that the provincial department of human resources and social security, in collaboration with the department of finance, shall work out the subsidy standard by June 15, 2020. Moreover, the Circular touches upon improving the management services for work-based training, speeding up relevant work on the vocational skill upgrading program, etc.