Abstract
Opening up to the outside world has brought new opportunities and challenges to the development of human resources in Shanxi Province, especially in terms of the structure of talent demand, vocational skills requirements and international competitiveness. The current situation of human resources in Shanxi Province reveals problems such as an aging population, uneven educational levels, structural employment contradictions and the segmentation of the labor market. To achieve high-quality development of human resources, Shanxi Province, as an inland province, needs to make efforts in five aspects: strengthening the development and utilization of human resources, improving the education and training system, optimizing the mechanism for talent introduction and cultivation, enhancing international exchanges and cooperation, and increasing the flexibility of the labor market.
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