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HCM City, US seek to boost ties in human resources development

Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan received Senior Vice President of the US-ASEAN Business Council (UABC) Michael Michalak on June 17 to discuss ways to bolster cooperation in improving local human resources quality.
HCM City, US seek to boost ties in human resources development ảnh 1Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (R) meets with received Senior Vice President of the US-ASEAN Business Council Michael Michalak on June 17 (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – Politburo member and Secretary ofthe Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan received Senior VicePresident of the US-ASEAN Business Council (UABC) Michael Michalak on June 17to discuss ways to bolster cooperation in improving local human resourcesquality.

At the meeting, the host highly valued effortsby Michalak, who is also a former US ambassador to Vietnam, to help promotebilateral relations in a result-oriented manner.

He noted that on the basis of the two countries’sound relations, partnership between HCM City and the US has also reaped goodoutcomes, especially in trade, investment and education.

Nhan asked the UABC Vice President to continuehelping US businesses to learn about the local investment climate, and investin HCM City’s prioritized fields such as smart city building,scientific-technological development and innovation, thereby contributing tothe substantive cooperation between the countries.

For his part, Michalak voiced his delight at theUS’s growing relations with Vietnam, noting that over the past 10 years, morethan 80,000 Vietnamese students have enrolled in secondary schools and highereducational institutions in the US.

There are over 30,000 Vietnamese students in hiscountry at present, ranking first among Southeast Asian countries and fifth inthe world in terms of the foreign student sources in the US, he noted.

He also asked HCM City’s authorities to continuefavourable conditions for US firms to invest in different areas, especially ineducation, training and human resources quality improvement.

At the event, the two sides discussed ways tostep up cooperation programmes and projects on training high-quality humanresources.

The US is now a leading trade partner of HCMCity as bilateral trade reached 8.2 billion USD in 2018. With nearly 400projects worth almost 1 billion USD, it ranks 10th among countries andterritories investing in the city.-VNA
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