The launching ceremony of the Vietnam-Japan friendship industrial park in Can Tho (Source: VNA) CanTho (VNA) - The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has worked to promote tradeand investment cooperation with foreign partners, especially Japan.
According to Director of the Can Tho Trade, InvestmentPromotion and Exhibition Centre Tran Khanh Tung, thecity has launched Japan Desk, which serves as a bridge between Japanesebusinesses in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and local authorities.
MotonoriTsuno, Director of RION company and Chairman of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Associationin Kansai prefecture of Japan, has been invited to be a strategic advisor ofthe municipal People’s Committee.
Can Tho also opened Japan Desk liaison office in Hanoi, Tokyo, and Osaka to promotingits connection with Japanese enterprises, Tung said.
Through Japan Desk, a working delegation of Can Tho visited Japan in March,during which the city granted an investment certificate to a joint venturebetween the Marine Foods Corporation of Japan and Nam Hai Exports Food StuffLimited (VietFoods Co. Ltd). The joint venture will invest to build a seafoodproduction and processing plant worth 14 million USD in Tra Noc 1 IndustrialPark in Can Tho city.
The municipal authorities also signed memoranda of understanding with theJapanese side on cooperation in IT personnel and Japanese language training,towards improving the profession and skill for Can Tho’s labourers working inJapan.
Can Tho’s leaders held talks with representatives from authorities ofWakayama and Hyogo prefectures, andthose from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to discuss cooperationin hi-tech agriculture, industry, tourism, logistics, health and education.
Tung stressed that the city will continue to work with the Japanese Embassy in Vietnamand other agencies such as JICA, JETRO, the Japan Chamber of Commerce andIndustry (JCCI) to further promote investment, trade and tourism bonds between CanTho and Japan.
By the end of 2018, Can Tho was home to 81 foreign direct investment (FDI)projects worth nearly 700 million USD.-VNA
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