Vietnam keen on boosting partnership with Japanese localities: official
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed that Vietnam is keen on promoting partnership among localities of Vietnam and Japan, considering it as a substantial and effective cooperation channel for both sides to beef up bilateral ties in various fields
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh (R) receives Vice Governor of Japan's Wakayama Prefecture Shimo Hiroshi (Photo: VGP)
Hanoi (VNA) – Permanent Deputy Prime MinisterPham Binh Minh has affirmed that Vietnam is keen on promoting partnership among localities of Vietnam and Japan, considering it as a substantial and effective cooperation channel for both sides to beef up bilateral ties in various fields.
In a reception for Vice Governor of Japan's Wakayama Prefecture Shimo Hiroshi in Hanoi on October 6, the official highlighted that the Vietnam-Japan extensive strategicpartnership is in prime time with high political trust despite impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and underlined that Japan has been a leading important economicpartner of Vietnam.
Bilateral economic, trade, investment, labour andeducation-training has been fruitful, he noted.
The Deputy PM said that partnership between localities ofthe two countries has been deepened.
He said he hopes Wakayama will continue toeffectively implement signed agreements with Vietnam, establish partnershipwith more Vietnamese localities, encourage local businesses to invest more inVietnam, strengthen cooperation in personneltraining, and expand the reception of Vietnamese practitioners and labourers towork in the prefecture.
For his part, the Japanese official said the prefecture is implementing an agriculturaland fisheries cooperation agreement with the Vietnamese Ministry of Agricultureand Rural Development, and a deal in in the field of industry with the Ministryof Industry and Trade.
The locality has also strengthened people-to-people exchangewith Vietnam, including a “lotus” exchange programme between Kinokawa city andQuang Nam province, which was initiated by the Chairman of the Japan – VietnamParliamentary Friendship Alliance Nikai Toshihiro, aiming to make lotus asymbol of spiritual connections between Vietnamese and Japanese people, hesaid.
He added that Wakayama is hastening the formation of aJapan-Vietnam Friendship Association in the locality and he will be the firstleader of the association./.
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The Vietnam-Japan relationship has been on the rise. Japan is Vietnam's leading official development assistance provider, third largest investor, third biggest source of tourists, and fourth trade partner of the Southeast Asian nation.
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