Building workforce adapted to digital era

Amid the strong wave of digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution taking place globally, human resources are no longer merely a factor supporting production but have become the “core competitive capability” of each locality and enterprise. For Dong Nai, one of Vietnam’s major industrial centers located at the gateway to the Southern Key Economic Region, building a high-quality workforce capable of adapting to the digital era is not only an urgent task but also a decisive condition for maintaining growth momentum and elevating its development position in the new phase.

As businesses increasingly step up automation and apply artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and other digital technologies in production, the demands placed on the labor force are also changing rapidly. The labor market now requires workers with digital skills, the ability to operate technology, innovative thinking, and the capacity to adapt flexibly. However, modern machinery can reach its full potential only when accompanied by a workforce sufficiently qualified to operate, use, and innovate with technologies. Therefore, developing high-quality human resources is a vital foundation for Dong Nai to capitalize on opportunities from digital transformation and attract a new generation of investors.

Facing this reality, Dong Nai has identified one of its key tasks for the 2025-2030 period as accelerating industrialization and modernization, while taking science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, green transformation, the circular economy, and the sharing economy as major driving forces for development. This goal is not only an economic development orientation but also a long-term strategy to create a new growth model based on knowledge, technology, and human capital.

Within this strategy, developing education and training and improving workforce quality are considered the key “gateway” to success. Dong Nai advocates continuing fundamental and comprehensive reforms in education and training, closely aligned with the practical needs of the labor market and international integration requirements. Comprehensive digital transformation in education, combined with the effective application of digital technologies and artificial intelligence to create smart learning environments and promote lifelong learning, will enable workers to continuously update their knowledge and improve their professional skills.

In particular, training a workforce with qualifications and skills that meet the demands of scientific-technological revolutions and digital transformation is strategically significant for Dong Nai in attracting high-quality investment. As major technology corporations increasingly prioritize locations with highly skilled labor forces, Dong Nai will gain a major competitive advantage if it successfully prepares workers who are technologically proficient, highly skilled, and capable of working in international environments.

When workers are equipped with digital skills, creative thinking, and a spirit of lifelong learning, they will not only adapt to new technologies but also become drivers of innovation themselves. This prerequisite is the foundation for Dong Nai to build a knowledge-based economy, develop high-tech industries, and deepen its participation in global value chains.

The goal of developing Dong Nai into a green, prosperous, civilized, and modern locality cannot be separated from the task of building people for the digital age. In that journey, investing in human resources is not only an investment in the present but also an investment in the locality’s future of sustainable development. A high-quality workforce that can master technology and adapt quickly to digital transformation will be an important driving force for Dong Nai to make breakthroughs and affirm its role as a dynamic growth pole of the Southeast region and the country in the new era.

By Thu Ngoc – Translated by Mai Nga, Minho