Ho Chi Minh City’s Liaison Boards forOverseas Vietnamese Affairs need to hold regular meetings with overseasVietnamese to reflect their aspirations and suggestions towardscompetent agencies as well as promote their role in promotingpeople-to-people exchanges and introducing Vietnamese culture tointernational friends.
The proposals were madeby the Standing Board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in HCM Citychapter at an October 30 meeting to review the 10-year implementation ofResolution 36-NQ/TW on overseas Vietnamese affairs issued by theCommunist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Politburo.
Thestanding board also asked for more attention to supporting overseasVietnamese youth around the world to return to their homeland and maketheir contributions to the country.
Around twomillion Vietnamese expatriates have come from HCM City or have relativesin the city. The majority of them reside in developed countries,according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Vietnam has issued many policies to exempt overseas Vietnamese fromvisas, encourage registration to keep their Vietnamese nationality, callfor their investment in the homeland, and support them to buy a house,with the view to encouraging them to return and strengthening theconnection between Vietnam and other countries.
More than 5.3 million overseas Vietnamese arrivals to Vietnam wererecorded through Tan Son Nhat International Airport between 2004 andJune 2013. Most of them registered to reside temporarily in the city,heard participants at the meeting.
To date, over3,000 Vietnamese expatriates have returned to their roots in the city.The local authorities also granted long-term temporary residence permitsto 9,234 overseas Vietnamese workers and investors.
More than 33 billion USD in remittances have been transferred throughbanks and credit institutions nationwide to help stabilise the economyin the last 10 years. Overseas remittances to the city is estimated toreach 11 billion USD this year.
Vietnameseliving and working abroad have also financed 70 billion VND (3.29million USD) to realise social and charitable programmes in 24 districtsin the city.-VNA
The proposals were madeby the Standing Board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in HCM Citychapter at an October 30 meeting to review the 10-year implementation ofResolution 36-NQ/TW on overseas Vietnamese affairs issued by theCommunist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Politburo.
Thestanding board also asked for more attention to supporting overseasVietnamese youth around the world to return to their homeland and maketheir contributions to the country.
Around twomillion Vietnamese expatriates have come from HCM City or have relativesin the city. The majority of them reside in developed countries,according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Vietnam has issued many policies to exempt overseas Vietnamese fromvisas, encourage registration to keep their Vietnamese nationality, callfor their investment in the homeland, and support them to buy a house,with the view to encouraging them to return and strengthening theconnection between Vietnam and other countries.
More than 5.3 million overseas Vietnamese arrivals to Vietnam wererecorded through Tan Son Nhat International Airport between 2004 andJune 2013. Most of them registered to reside temporarily in the city,heard participants at the meeting.
To date, over3,000 Vietnamese expatriates have returned to their roots in the city.The local authorities also granted long-term temporary residence permitsto 9,234 overseas Vietnamese workers and investors.
More than 33 billion USD in remittances have been transferred throughbanks and credit institutions nationwide to help stabilise the economyin the last 10 years. Overseas remittances to the city is estimated toreach 11 billion USD this year.
Vietnameseliving and working abroad have also financed 70 billion VND (3.29million USD) to realise social and charitable programmes in 24 districtsin the city.-VNA
