- Viet Nam needs more expats' participation in national construction

Viet Nam needs more expats' participation in national construction

Viet Nam is working to persuade more and more overseas Vietnamese, especially intellectuals and experts, to join hands in the national construction.

Overseas Vietnamese scientists and experts will be invited to give lectures at home and they will also be encouraged to invest into or directly take part in hi-tech projects, said Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Phu Binh, who is also the chief of the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese.

In an interview granted to the Spring issue of Viet Nam Economic Times, Binh noted, "Vietnamese expats are an important human resource who play a strategic role in the country's national construction and development, particularly in its process of international integration."

In the long term, overseas Vietnamese intellectuals working at the home country can take on the role as leaders of or advisors to organisations working in the fields of science and technology, education and training, State management and economic management, Binh underlined.

He said his ministry will coordinate with the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education and Training to work out policies to facilitate those moves.

Since the 1990s, Viet Nam has adopted a host of policies to lure Vietnamese expats' attention to the homeland, prominently being the Party Political Bureau's resolution 36 concerning the work relating to overseas Vietnamese.

According to the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, close to 3 million Vietnamese people are residing in over 90 countries and territories, a majority part of them is living in developed countries.

Hundreds of overseas Vietnamese intellectuals and experts came home to take part in lecturing and transferring technology annually.

Vietnamese expats have invested directly and indirectly in 2,500 businesses at home with a combined registered capital of nearly 400 million USD and 5 trillion VND.

Last year, they remitted 4.7 billion USD to Viet Nam. (VNA)

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