Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (right) and Nagano’s Governor Shuichi Abe (Photo: VNA) HCMCity (VNA) – Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee NguyenThanh Phong has expressed his hope that the city and Japan’s Nagano prefecturewill have more specific cooperation programmes in the time ahead.
At a reception for Nagano’s Governor Shuichi Abe in HCM City on August 15,Phong said the southern largest economic hub stands ready to cooperate with theJapanese prefecture in tourism promotion programmes.
HCM City calls on businesses from Nagano to invest in the city in the spheresof green energy development and environmental pollution settlement, and shareexperience in implementing health care and education-training models, he said.
The official suggested the Nagano authorities create favourable conditions forVietnamese to work and study in the host society, thus contributing toconsolidating and developing the friendship between the two localities as wellas between the two countries in general.
For his part, Abe said HCM City and Nagano should step up cooperation in theareas where both localities have potential, and turn their memorandum ofunderstanding on cooperation into concrete projects.
Nagano wants to enhance cooperation with the city in labour, energydevelopment, environmental protection, tourism promotion, education andtraining, he said.
Abe added that Nagano will participate in an international travel expo in HCMCity in September, saying the prefecture hopes to reach specific cooperationprogrammes with Vietnamese partners in this field.
Nagano is working on programmes to support the Vietnamese community in theprefecture, Abe said, noting that Nagano wants to receive more Vietnamesestudents and guest workers.
As of August 2019, 14 businesses from Nagano had invested in HCM City with totalcapital of 230 million USD.-VNA
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