HCM City further ties with Chinese localities
Hai, who is also a Politburo member of the Communist
Party of Vietnam Central Committee, made the statement in HCM City on
December 21 while receiving a delegation of the Communist Party of China
(CPC) delegation, led by Wang Jiarui, member of the CPC Central
Committee, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese
People’s Consultative Conference and head of the CPC Central
Committee’s International Department.
He described Wang’s
current visit to Vietnam, which was started on December 18, as helping
realise and deepen the two countries’ bilateral ties.
Hai briefed
the guest on the city’s socio-economic development, adding that more
than 300 Chinese businesses have invested nearly 300 million USD in HCM
City. In trade, the city exported to China 1 billion USD and imported
from the country over 2.6 billion USD.
He said he hopes Wang, in
his post, will help further promote friendship between the two Parties
and facilitate localities and businesses of both sides in economics, and
front and organisation affairs.
For his part, Wang said he was impressed by the city’s rapid development.
He
highly valued the city’s contribution to Vietnam’s development in the
context of the global economic crisis, and wished the city further
successes in the coming time.-VNA