The Ho Chi Minh Youth Communist Union should help provide vocational training and jobs to youths, ensuring more than 50 percent of the country’s workers are trained by 2010, the prime minister said.

Also present at the meeting were deputy prime ministers Nguyen Sinh Hung, Pham Gia Khiem and Nguyen Thien Nhan, several ministers and heads of government agencies.

The committee should continue with its task of educating youths in political ideals, morality and a positive lifestyle, Dung said, adding this is both an urgent and long-term task.

The Union’s media agencies like Tien Phong, Thanh Nien and Tuoi Tre newspapers play an important role in honoring and communicating good examples of youths to encourage others to follow.

Dung and ministers hailed the Union for ushering in effective and useful changes in recent times and making a significant contribution to the nation.

The central committee’s First Secretary, Vo Van Thuong, told the government leaders that the Union was improving its methods and content in educating youths in political ideas.

Its movements have stimulated youths to take part in activities aimed to develop the society and economy, protect social order and set themselves up in business.

Source: VNA