Vietnam, Czech Republic augment labour cooperation

The Minister proposed that the Czech Republic receive Vietnamese labourers in other occupations, apart from nurses and orderlies. 

Each year, Vietnam sends some 145,000 guest workers abroad, mostly to Taiwan (China), the Republic of Korea, Japan, Germany and Malaysia, Dung said, highlighting the potential for stronger cooperation between the two nations in the field.

The Vietnam Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs is managing 1,954 vocational training facilities, including 48 medical colleges and schools, he told his guest. 

He suggested the Czech Republic help Vietnam improve professional skills for workers in such areas as metallurgy, the manufacturing of machinery, electronic equipment and means of transport, garments and textiles, pharmaceutical products and food processing. 

In reply, Vojtěch Filip who is also Chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) said his nation desires to cooperate with Vietnam in training nurses, orderlies and doctors, and establish a training facility in this field in the Southeast Asian nation. 

The Czech Republic will grant working visas to nurses and orderlies after they receive professional and linguistic training in Vietnam, he said, adding that the country hopes to receive up to 4,000 Vietnamese nurses in the time to come.

Host and guest noted with pleasure the strong development of the traditional friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the Czech Republic.

They echoed the view that the visit to the Czech Republic by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc last April has helped promote the bilateral ties across multiple fields, from education-training to labour, agriculture, science-technology, environment, culture and tourism. 

It is worthy of note that , in early June 2019, the Czech Republic resumed issuing long-term visas for Vietnamese labourers, and is destined to open a direct air route from Vietnam to the European country, he said.