HCM City wants to bolster ties with China’s Hunan province
Ho Chi Minh City wants to enhance delegation exchanges and step up cooperative relations with China’s Hunan province, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has said.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (R) and Secretary of the Party Committee of China's Hunan province Du Jiahao (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City wants to enhance delegationexchanges and step up cooperative relations with China’s Hunan province,Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has said.
Hosting a reception for Secretary ofthe Party Committee of Hunan province Du Jiahao on December 1, Phong said thatboth sides have huge potential for cooperation in tourism, trade andinvestment, contributing to socio-economic development in each nation.
On the basis of the thriving Vietnam-China relations, Ho Chi Minh City haspromoted the exchange of delegations and partnership in trade, investment and tourismwith eight localities in China, he underlined.
Phong expressed his hope that the Hunan leader’s visit will serve as a catalystfor Ho Chi Minh City and Hunan to further their cooperative ties.
Du, for his part, said that his visit aims to concretise cooperation agreementsreached between General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam andPresident Nguyen Phu Trong andGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinpingduring Xi’s visit to Vietnam in 2017.
Hunan will join hands with other Chinese localities to intensify cooperationwith Vietnamese partners, helping branch out the friendship and cooperationbetween the two Parties, States and peoples.
Congratulating Ho Chi Minh City for its socio-economic achievements in the pasttime, Du said he expects the city will become an economic, financial, trade andlogistic hub not only of Vietnam but also of the region.
Hunan hopes to enhance cooperation with the Vietnamese city in the fields ofboth sides’ strengths like tourism, infrastructure development, information andelectronics.
Chinese investors have poured 157 million USD in 225 projects in Ho Chi MinhCity, ranking 19th among 100 countries and territories havinginvestment in the city. Last year, HCM City’s trade with China stood at 16billion USD. China is one of the five biggest sources of visitors to Ho ChiMinh City.-VNA
Attracting resources from international businesses and investors, including those from China, is very important to HCM City as the city has been making efforts to bring its development to a new level.
Ho Chi Minh City and China’s Shandong province aim to facilitate bilateral trade by holding more networking events, encouraging investments between both sides, and signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), promising more support in the future.
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The country is willing to participate in collective efforts to promote cooperation and mobilise resources to advance the current priority issues of developing countries, such as trade, investment, infrastructure connectivity, making the most of scientific and technological advances for development, and people-to-people exchanges, Hang said.
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Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (R) and Secretary of the Party Committee of China's Hunan province Du Jiahao (Photo: VNA) 
