In the last days of the year, along the roads of Thuong Am commune, Son Duong district, Tuyen Quang province, plum and peach blossoms have begun to bloom. Many spacious houses have been built thanks to the money sent home by overseas workers.
From a difficult land, Thuong Am has now changed thanks to labor export. In Dong Van village, Mr. Pham Thanh Hai's shop is also bustling with people coming and going.
After many years of working abroad in Taiwan (China) and Singapore, Mr. Hai has accumulated capital and a lot of experience from production and business activities in the neighboring countries. He invested in building a store selling electronic and refrigeration equipment and became a trusted address for his neighbors.
Mr. Hai shared: "To have the foundation like today, most of it is thanks to working abroad." According to Mr. Hai, working in a foreign land, the first thing is that he always tries hard to work and strictly follows the regulations of the local government, always determined to maintain the image of Vietnamese workers to create prestige for future workers.
“After a few years, I had a small amount of capital, then I returned to renovate the house, and used the rest to start a business. From poverty, my family is now much better off,” said Mr. Hai.
In 2011, Ms. Le Thi Chanh, Tan Bien 1 village, Tien Bo commune, Yen Son district, borrowed 50 million VND from the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development of Yen Son district along with her family's savings to send her eldest son to work in Taiwan (China).
Mrs. Chanh said: “When my eldest son finished 12th grade, I took a risk and sent him to work abroad. Luckily, he had a steady job there, and his monthly income was sent back to pay off the debt and help his mother renovate the house. His two younger siblings also followed him there.”
According to this woman, all three of her children have been working abroad, the oldest has been working for 11 years, the youngest for 4 years. On average, each year her children send home 500 - 600 million VND.
From the most difficult village in the commune, Tan Bien is now known as the "Taiwanese village" because out of the 168 households in the village, 30 have members working abroad.
Mr. Tran Van Su - Vice Chairman of Tien Bo Commune People's Committee - informed that up to now, the whole commune has more than 50 people working abroad, mainly in Malaysia, Taiwan (China), Dubai, Japan, Korea, and Russia.
Speaking to reporters, Ms. Ly Thi Hai Hien - Head of the Labor Department (Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs of Tuyen Quang province) - said that in recent years, the number of people sent to work abroad in the province has continuously increased. As of November 2024, Tuyen Quang province had 2,874 workers working abroad.
In the period 2022-2024, the number of workers going to work abroad will increase, an average of 958 workers per year. The markets where workers go to work all have stable incomes, guaranteed working conditions, and most workers have accumulated capital after returning home from working abroad.
Through the loan capital to support workers going to work abroad under contract, the provincial branch of the Social Policy Bank has disbursed 33 billion VND to 451 workers going to work abroad under contract.
