Exec: Demand for managers to surge

China's sustained economic growth and increasing emphasis on job creation, coupled with its companies' ramped-up efforts to "go global", will fuel a surge in demand for project managers in the years ahead, said a top executive of the Project Management Institute, a US-based international organization.

China will see a large number of complex and major projects in various industries such as technology, green energy, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, construction, finance, telecom and manufacturing. These industries have become the vanguard of China's economic development toward higher quality, said Pierre Le Manh, president and CEO of the PMI, a global professional organization in the sectors of project management, program management and portfolio management.

Given the momentum in supply and industrial chains, and other key industries in China, there are a lot of new management skills required like agility and risk management, said Le Manh, adding that between 2020 and 2030, the global economy will need 25 million new project professionals, and nearly half of them will come from China.