Unskilled Chinese workers flow into Vietnam
VietNamNet/TT4/26/2009
VietNamNet Bridge Thousands of foreign labourers are working in Vietnam without work permits. Most of them are unskilled workers who work for foreign contractors, particularly Chinese.
Most Chinese working at the Nong Son thermo-power
plant in the central province of Quang Nam are unskilled labourers.
The number of Chinese workers dwarfs populations of local labourers at some projects, such as Tan Rai bauxite mine in Bao Loc, Lam Dong province in the Central Highlands, the Quang Ninh thermo-power plant in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh, the Hai Phong Coal-fueled Power Plant in Hai Phong city, and the Ca Mau Gas Power Fertiliser project. At these places, there are from 700 to over 2,000 Chinese workers.
Foreign workers flooding construction sites
There are no official statistics about unskilled foreign workers in Vietnam, but it is estimated there are tens of thousands, and the number is seemingly on the rise.
The two big thermo-power plants that are about to be completed in the north, the Quang Ninh and Hai Phong, have over 2,000 foreign workers each, most of whom are Chinese.
In these construction sites, Chinese workers do various jobs, from cleaning up to digging, installing turbines and others. The Chinese contractors use nearly no Vietnamese workers.
Meanwhile, in the central region, Chinese workers who came to Vietnam with Chinese contractors began to appear several weeks ago in Nong Son, the central province of Quang Nam.