China ranked 1st by numbers of labour migrants in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan accepts more Chinese labour migrants than from any other countries, Tengrinews.kz reports. Birzhan Nurymbetov, Vice Minister of Labour, voiced the statistics at a symposium in Astana today. According to him, for 2011 Kazakhstan has set a quota for imported labor force at 72.5 thousand foreigners. As of today, 29 thousand people have already obtained respective work permits. “Foreign labor force is classified as follows: top management, middle management, employees, season workers, unskilled workforce. The share of highly qualified foreign personnel working in Kazakhstan stands at 75% of all the labor migrants. Most part of them come from China, followed by Turkey, Great Britain, India and Italy. Altogether, Kazakhstan has been accepting labour migrants from a total of 100 countries”, Mr. Nurymbetov said. In a separate statement he said that 9.5 thousand Kazakhstan’s citizens work in Russia under Customs Union regulations.