HCM City intensifies collaboration with Germany’s Hessen State
Politburo member and Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan received Angela Dorn, Minister of Higher Education, Research and the Arts of Germany’s Hessen State, on February 28.
Politburo member and Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (R) welcomes Angela Dorn, Minister of Higher Education, Research and the Arts of Germany’s Hessen State (Source: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Politburo member and Secretary of Ho Chi MinhCity’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan received Angela Dorn, Minister ofHigher Education, Research and the Arts of Germany’s Hessen State, on February28.
Welcoming the Hessen minister’s visit, Nhan said that it manifeststhe growing relationship between Vietnam and Germany in generaland Ho Chi Minh City and Hessen State in particular.
Describing the establishment and effective operation of the Vietnam-GermanyUniversity as evidence for the two sides’ effective cooperation in educationand training, Nhan affirmed that his city always pays attention to theuniversity’s development and supports the German side’s hope to open the secondGerman university in Vietnam.
Minister Angela Dorn expressed her hope that Hessen State and HoChi Minh City will continue stepping up bilateral collaboration, and turn bothsides’ aspirations into specific projects in various fields, especially inculture and education.
She said she was impressed by positive results Vietnam has achievedin the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by the coronavirusSARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). She affirmed that her state has the strength in biochemical research and is willing to receive Vietnamese postgraduates,including those from Ho Chi Minh City, to do research on the coronavirus and vaccine and drugs against COVID-19.
At present, there are 169 German-invested projects worth over300 million USD in HCM City. Over the past years, the city and the German statehave implemented various cooperative activities in trade, culture andeducation./.
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Politburo member and Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (R) welcomes Angela Dorn, Minister of Higher Education, Research and the Arts of Germany’s Hessen State (Source: VNA) 
