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HCM City’s leaders welcome new Korean Ambassador to Vietnam

Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City received new Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh-wan on December 22.
HCM City’s leaders welcome new Korean Ambassador to Vietnam ảnh 1Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (R) meets with the RoK's Ambassador to Vietnam Park Noh-wan on December 22 (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) –Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City received new Ambassador of the Republic of Korea(RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh-wan on December 22.

Meeting with the Korean diplomat, Secretary ofthe HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen highly valued the outcomes of theRoK’s cooperation with Vietnam in general and HCM City in particular.

He welcomed the RoK’s cooperation in waste andwater treatment, human resources training, and the Long Thanh InternationalAirport project, adding that HCM City is planning to apply the online biddingmodel, a new bidding model using technology – an area the RoK has strengths.

Nen applauded Korean businesses’ moves to investin new sectors like the Mekong water resources management, mangrove forestdegradation prevention, and aquaculture in the Mekong Delta.

The official also expressed his hope that withits strengths in technology, the RoK will cooperate with HCM City in digitaltransformation.

Later the same day, Chairman of the municipalPeople’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong met with the Korean ambassador.

Phong welcomed Park’sproposal to organise an online investment conference between HCM City’s leadersand Korean enterprises in February 2021.

The upcoming event is set to seek cooperationand investment chances in urban infrastructure, smart city building, anddigital economy.

Phong expressed his hope that via thisconference, obstacles will be removed in a timely manner to help HCM Cityimprove its investment climate.

Regarding procedures for the Eco Smart Cityproject in the Thu Thien new urban area, the CJ Cau Tre food processingfactory, and a residential area in District 9, which are invested by the RoK,he pledged that municipal authorities will provide the maximum support forthese projects to be carried out quickly.

For his part, Park highly valued the city’sachievements in the COVID-19 combat.

With the quarantine-free protocol for short-termentries into Vietnam, to be applied as from January 1 next year, he alsothanked local leaders for creating timely favourable conditions for Koreanfirms to come to explore investment opportunities in HCM City./.
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