中东地区是世界六大劳务市场之一,年输入量在350—400万人左右,占世界流动劳务人员总量的近1/5。海湾战争使中东劳务市场发生了巨大变化。伊拉克入侵科威特之后,包括我国工人在内的150多万外国工人撤离了科威特和伊拉克,沙特、约旦、也门等其他中东国家也停止了吸引外籍工人。现在,战争结束后的科威特城镇,破败不堪,到处都是残垣断壁,940口油井中有500多口在战争中起火,扑灭这些油井的大火至少需要一年半的时间。科威特的战争损失达3000亿美元,恢复建设需要5— The Middle East is one of the six largest service markets in the world with an annual import volume of around 350-400 million, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total number of floating service workers in the world. The Gulf War has brought great changes to the labor market in the Middle East. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, more than 1.5 million foreign workers, including our workers, withdrew from Kuwait and Iraq. Other Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Yemen also stopped attracting foreign workers. Now that the post-war Kuwaiti towns and cities have been dilapidated and ruined, more than 500 of the 940 oil wells have caught fire in the war, and the fighting to extinguish these wells will take at least a year and a half. Kuwait’s war losses amounted to 300 billion U.S. dollars and the reconstruction needs to be 5-