Sorry man, do we really need these "skilled workers" from mainland China. Absolutely no. In the public transportation project in Ho Chi Minh City, Japanese contractor just left job for local residents and still no accident so far in this project.
The fact is that Vietnamese are learning skill and experience from many projects even though the winner is from Korea, Japan or Australia. For me, It's quite weird when "skilled Chinese worker" not get involve in such huge project in Vietnam. In most previous Chinese-backed fund projects , these "skilled", "undocumented" Chinese workers take all simple work from local via legally tourist visa.
Anyway, thank you from Vietnam for Chinese ODA help to improve our infrastructure. I admire for China's miracle development in building many well-structured cities, complex high-speed railway and highway network.
We should have anticipated these kinds of nationalistic responses as shown above from the people of a country where the government is extremely unfriendly to China
We should not have entered into the project at all. Like I have expressed my strong opposition of entering into tender of any project in India. I am foreseeing similar cases will occur like the Vietcongs if we win contracts there
We have an impressive resume of completing numerous construction projects overseas in Africa, N and S America, South Asia, M East.
We are one of the most qualified to conduct similar projects in the world.
In the case above, there are several points to ponder:
1. I believe the majority of the workers on site are locals. This is the root cause of the problems because of the barrier in communications and different work ethics. We have good reasons for a strong demand of using Chinese workers especially if the site is in an unfriendly environment
2. Safety regulations are paramount and must be observed. I wonder if there were adequate supervision/effective communications between the site supervisors and workers in these regards
3. quality control over completed works seemed to be lacking there
4. was any of the accidents happened after typhoons?
5. is the project adequately covered by insurance?
Some sectors of the community are voicing out strongly against the use of Chinese workers in unfamiliar projects overseas. The vietcongs have presented a good case for us to use our people for the projects located overseas
Would you mind reading the similar case I refer from wikipedia.
In response to the collapse of Can Tho Bridge in 9/2007, top officials of the Japanese contracting companies flew to Vietnam and made bows in a meeting to apologize to the victims and their families. Hayama Kanji, Chairman of the Taisei Corporation, said in a meeting with Vietnamese authorities: "I sincerely express my deepest apology to the people and the government of Vietnam.
The Can Tho Bridge project was being apologized from Japanese even though the contractor were all Vietnamese and whether the mistakes was caused by Japanese or Vietnamese (communication barriers among Japanese and Vietnamese, etc). So, in this project, if Chinese blame for these local workers, not the main contractor who selected and supervised the sub-contractors and workers. I'm feel a bit disappointed.
Last, but not least, I admit that Vietnamese should blame for itself rather than foreign main contractors even though apology or not. Those Vietnamese involved in supervising should be charge a serious punishment for their duty of work.
