Statistics released by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese showed overseas remittances to Vietnam surpassed US$6.3 billion, accounting for 70 percent of the country’s total amount recorded in 2011.

The country is expected to get US$10-11 billion remitted from Vietnamese expatriates abroad this year, up 30 percent compared to last year’s figure.

Most of the money has flowed into rural and far-flung areas where there is an abundant resource of labour for export.