China has announced the removal of more than 272 vocational qualifications as well as additional certification requirements that were the norm since 2014. The removal is aimed towards supporting the creation of new businesses as well as to help bring forth new ideas from citizens within the coming years.

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Among those removed were qualifications for web advertising brokers, port cargo handling workers and baristas.

China's Qualifications and Certifications system were created in 1994 and was aimed towards the testing of the ability and knowledge of workers in order for them to engage in corresponding vocations. There were two types of qualification certification, namely job-access qualifications and assessed skill qualifications. These tests were administered by agencies that were authorized by the Chinese government to test citizen's competency.

However, after 20 years of development, the vocational system has caused more problems than solutions. A lot of people, mainly foreigners, have also made illegal profit from vocational testing and training that were not authorized by the government.

Some foreign immigrants put up vocational training schools that are aimed at training workers and other employees about other sectors through basic professional knowledge and certain skills that one needs in order to qualify for a specific job. Unfortunately, a lot of these so-called schools are not recognized by the government.

China also plans to focus on enhancing  job and skill supervision as well as formulating a new vocational qualification framework that is different from the previous one that was set in 1994.  

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