Skilled workers are playing a crucial role in the industrial workforce through innovation-driven development as China's manufacturing industry grows. CGTN's Chuck Tinte looks into how government officials are working to bring in more skilled workers.

With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy and the acceleration of the manufacturing industry, the shortage of skilled workers and structural problems have become increasingly severe.

TANG TAO, VICE MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND SOCIAL SECURITY "Lots of skilled workers have a relatively disadvantaged social status, their incomes levels and benefits are quite low. They don't receive any sense of honor and fulfilment from their work. Especially for those young people, due to the traditional culture and mindset, they are unwilling to engage in skilled careers."

To meet the demand of skilled workers and change their awareness of staying in a lower social status, it's important to maximise the interest in the front-lines of the workplace to workers, encouraging them to get more engaged in their jobs.

YAN JINGHUA VICE PRESIDENT OF ALL-CHINA FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS "Our priority is to arouse the workers' enthusiasm and initiative to their jobs. Therefore, we have established wage incentives to reward those qualified skilled workers with higher income. And we have encouraged them to participate in more professional training sessions to further improve their skills. All those benefit treatments we have implemented are skills-oriented."

Improving the treatment of the skilled workers is important to make the industrial workforce stronger. To do this, not just their own awareness need to be changed, but also the benefits policies implemented. Chuck Tinte, CGTN.