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HCM City boosts cooperation with Laos’ Champasak, Vientiane

Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) branch in Ho Chi Minh City Tran Kim Yen had working sessions in the city on April 19 with leaders of the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) branches in Champasak province and Vientiane.
HCM City boosts cooperation with Laos’ Champasak, Vientiane ảnh 1Working session between delegations of Vietnam Fatherland Front branch in Ho Chi Minh City and Lao Front for National Construction branch in Vientiane (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) branchin Ho Chi Minh City Tran Kim Yen had working sessions in the city on April 19 withleaders of the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) branches in Champasakprovince and Vientiane.

At the meetings, Yen said that for many years, the StandingCommittee of the VFF branch in Ho Chi Minh City has carried out a programmenamed "Vietnamese families with Lao-Cambodian students in Ho Chi Minh Cityfor the 2021-2025 period". To date, there are 33 Vietnamese families inthe city sponsoring 42 Lao students and six Cambodian ones.

Through the sponsorship, the programme creates favourableconditions for Lao and Cambodian students learning in the city to have theopportunity to live and interact with Vietnamese families, and understand moreabout history and culture, people, and traditional values of Vietnamesefamilies; and to improve their ability to communicate in Vietnamese language,thus helping them achieve better academic results.

Regarding the investment promotion and cooperation betweenHo Chi Minh City and Champasak and Vientiane, Deputy Director of the Ho ChiMinh City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre Tran Phu Lu said last December,the two countries coordinated in holding the "Vietnam - Laos Trade andInvestment Forum", which attracted the participation of more than 300representatives of their businesses, including many from Champasak and Vientiane.Within the framework of the forum, 17 cooperation agreements and one economiccontract were signed with a total value of about 4 trillion VND (170.2 millionUSD).

HCM City boosts cooperation with Laos’ Champasak, Vientiane ảnh 2Chairwoman of the LFNC branch in Champasak Vatsana Silima (Photo: VNA)
Chairwoman of the LFNC branch in Champasak Vatsana Silimasaid that her province appreciates Ho Chi Minh City’s efforts to implementcontents of a memorandum of understanding on cooperation inked in 2022, thuspromoting the two localities’ friendship.

This year, the province wants to have more collaborationopportunities with the Vietnamese metropolis to contribute to each country’sdevelopment, and the bilateral friendship.

Chairman of the LFNC branch in Vientiane Thanome Thamthong affirmedthat the branch will maintain close coordination with the VFF in Ho Chi MinhCity to promote the success of the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Friendship andSolidarity Year 2022; step up disseminations to raise awareness of Lao people,especially youths, on the two countries’ special relations; and work withrelevant agencies to create more favourable conditions for Vietnamese people livingin the country./.
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