Vietnam facilitates lychee purchase by Chinese traders in Bac Giang: Spokeswoman
Competent agencies and localities of Vietnam, including Bac Giang – the country’s lychee growing hub – always create favourable conditions for Chinese businesses and traders to buy the fruit in Bac Giang, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at a routine press conference on May 26.
The northern province of Bac Giang is Vietnam's lychee growing hub. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Competent agencies andlocalities of Vietnam, including Bac Giang – the country’s lychee growing hub –always create favourable conditions for Chinese businesses and traders to buy the fruit in Bac Giang,Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at a routine press conference onMay 26.
Answering a question on the purchase of lychee in Bac Giang by Chinese businesses and traders, Hang said over the past time, Vietnamese and Chinese agencies andlocalities have closely coordinated in creating favourable conditions for theirbusinesses, traders and supermarket chains to research the market and conducttrade promotion for agricultural products, reaping positive results.
They have also joined hands in organising activitiesin both countries to promote lychee sale, attracting the attention ofmany Chinese firms, and regularly exchanged information about export-importregulations, contributing to raising the efficiency of customs clearance andgoods circulation in accordance with pandemic prevention and controlrequirements in each country, the spokeswoman added.
She said Bac Giang province on May 25 organised anonline conference on lychee promotion, which was linked with 80 sites at homeand abroad. The event saw the participation of representatives from ministries,agencies, localities, fruit export-importassociations, retail groups, supermarket chains and businesses,and traders, including those from Chinese localities like Guangxi, Yunnan andSichuan.
According to the spokeswoman, the lychee harvestseason in Bac Giang is scheduled to last for two months, starting from May 25,and hundreds of Chinese traders have completed entry procedures to go to the northern province for the purchase of the fruit./.
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The northern province of Bac Giang is Vietnam's lychee growing hub. (Photo: VNA) 
