The department said in recentyears, sending people to work abroad under contracts has proved to be aneffective job creation measure, and it has received attention fromauthorities.
Between 2016 and 2019, anaverage of over 100,000 Vietnamese went to work overseas each year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,the figure dropped to 78,000 in 2020 and 45,000 last year.
At present, there about 580,000Vietnamese guest workers in total, including nearly 250,000 in Japan, some 230,000in Taiwan (China), and nearly 50,000 in the Republic of Korea.
They mainly work in thefields of manufacturing (mechanics, textile - garment, leather footwear, electronics),construction, agriculture, fisheries, and services (caregiving, domestic work)./.