HCM City promotes cooperation with Portugal’s Porto city
Ho Chi Minh City and Portugal’s Porto city on July 27 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation between the two cities in the 2023-2025 period.
Porto Mayor Rui Moreira (L) welcomes Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc (Photo: VNA)
Porto (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City and Portugal’s Portocity on July 27 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperationbetween the two cities in the 2023-2025 period.
Under the deal, inked by Porto Mayor Rui Moreira and ViceChairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc, the two sides willpromote collaboration in culture, tourism, economy, trade, urban upgrading andheritage conservation.
They will create favourable conditions for football teamsand clubs of the two cities to exchange and share experience, while encouraginglocal departments and agencies to increase cooperation.
At the signing of the MoU between HCM City and Porto (Photo: VNA)
Addressing the signing ceremony in Porto, Duc said he hopesthe MoU will help bolster the partnership between the two cities, the twoeconomic hubs of Vietnam and Portugal, especially in economy, culture, tourismand innovation, thus contributing to promoting the ties between the twocountries.
For his part, Moreira said he believes the deal will help form an effectiveeconomic partnership between the two sides and beef up bilateral cooperation onother fields, especially tourism and urban upgrading.
Speaking to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Moreirahighlighted the traditional relations between Vietnam and Portugal as well asthe growing bilateral partnership in recent years thanks to the strong economicties between the EU and Vietnam.
Both Moreira and Duc pointed to similarities between Porto and HCM City andtheir cooperation potential, particularly in tourism, cultural heritagepreservation, tertiary education, science and technology for the development ofboth cities.
The HCM City delegation visits Bolhão, an ancient market in Porto (Photo: VNA)
While in Porto, the HCM City delegation visited Bolhão,an ancient market that opened in 1839, one of the important historical andarchitectural sites of Portugal that has been restored and expected tobecome a cultural and cuisine centre of the European country. They also visited theprojects to restore Matadouro ancient street of Porto to learn experience ofthe city in the work.
On the occasion, they also worked with the University of Porto, one of the 100best universities of Europe, which ranks among the top 350 universities in theworld.
The second largest city of Portugal, Porto is one of theoldest cities in Europe. The city downtown area has been recognised by theUNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site./.
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Porto Mayor Rui Moreira (L) welcomes Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc (Photo: VNA) 
At the signing of the MoU between HCM City and Porto (Photo: VNA) 
The HCM City delegation visits Bolhão, an ancient market in Porto (Photo: VNA) 
