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A number of rural migrant workers in China DO go to Vietnam to work[0], though this has been increasingly cracked down on by the Vietnamese government[1]. On a similar note, the Belt and Roads Initiative itself essentially acted as a jobs placement program to alleviate labor issues after the 2015-16 Stock Market crash in China [TODO: Find page numbers from notes]

[0] - https://data.vietnam.opendevelopmentmekong.net/dataset/fefed...

[1] - https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/workers-1029202011165...

Labor rarely has the mobility that capital does, especially when international borders are involved.

Given their poverty, are you certain they have enough disposable income (let alone the personal freedom) to just pick up and move to an entirely new country?

Imagine telling poor Americans to just move to Guatemala to do poor people work since it’s not that different and you’ll realize how insane that sounds.

Wouldn’t Vietnamese people be massively favored? How much chance would a common Chinese person have. Language is also different enough, and culture probably as well.