Hanoi (VNA) – The number of Vietnamese people sentto work overseas amounted to 102,127 between January and September, representing92.64 percent of the yearly target.

Taiwan (China) received the largest volume of Vietnameseworkers during the reviewed period, at 47,721, up 1.23 percent year on year. Itwas followed by Japan with 43,987 workers, up 23.31 percent.

A total of 930 Vietnamese workers were dispatched to SoutheastAsia, while 2,218 others went to Middle East countries. Both markets saw year-on-yeardeceases of 16.74 and 27.11 percent, respectively.

In Southeast Asia, 824 Vietnamese or 88.6 percent of thetotal workers landed in Malaysia, a drop of 21 percent from the same periodlast year.

In Middle East, Saudi Arabia welcomed the highest number ofVietnamese workers, with 1,522, followed by Kuwait with 618 people.

According to the Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply(VAMAS), of 26 markets receiving Vietnamese workers in the first nine months of2018, only five had the scale of 1,000 workers and above. They were Taiwan,Japan, the Republic of Korea, Rumania, and Saudi Arabia.

The Taiwanese and Japanese markets accounted for about 94.71percent of the workers to Northeast Asia and 90 percent of the total sentduring the period.

The VAMAS predicted that in the remaining months of theyear, these markets will still have high demand for Vietnamese workers.

At the 11th plenary session of the National Assembly’s SocialAffairs Committee, which ran from October 9 to 11, Minister of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung said the ministry is selecting a number oflocations in Northern and Eastern Europe to send Vietnamese to work in high-techsectors.

Currently, a personnel project is training about 1,000highly competent workers for the German market. After training, they will spendthree years working in the European country before coming back to serve theirhome country.     

As planned, by the end of November this year, Vietnam willsign a cooperation programme with Bulgaria and Rumania on training highlyskilled human resources.

Minister Dung said Vietnam is focusing on high-skilledworkers and high-tech sectors, and the workforce will return to makecontribution to the country’s development.

In 2017, Vietnam sent more than 134,000 workers overseas,surpassing the yearly target by 24 percent. -VNA