The Vietnam-Cambodia-Laos (VCL) Business Club in Paris held its fifth meeting in Paris on Dec. 19 with the participation of 86 entrepreneurs.
Participants discussed plans to boost trade and investment cooperation between the three Southeast Asian countries with their French partners.
They agreed to increase exchange of information on finance, marketing and human resources.
Vietnamese commerce counsellor to France Pham Xuan Yen briefed the meeting on Vietnam’s economic situation and trade relations with France in 2010.
At present France has almost 200 investment projects in Vietnam with a combined capital of nearly 3 billion USD, ranking 9th among foreign investors in the country.
French businesses are involving in transport, telecom, hotel, tourism, agro-forestry and fisheries in 24 cities and provinces in Vietnam. Those projects helped generate over 24,000 jobs for local people.
Yen expressed his hope that the VCL Business Club would further boost activities to promote trade and investment with Vietnamese enterprises./.
Participants discussed plans to boost trade and investment cooperation between the three Southeast Asian countries with their French partners.
They agreed to increase exchange of information on finance, marketing and human resources.
Vietnamese commerce counsellor to France Pham Xuan Yen briefed the meeting on Vietnam’s economic situation and trade relations with France in 2010.
At present France has almost 200 investment projects in Vietnam with a combined capital of nearly 3 billion USD, ranking 9th among foreign investors in the country.
French businesses are involving in transport, telecom, hotel, tourism, agro-forestry and fisheries in 24 cities and provinces in Vietnam. Those projects helped generate over 24,000 jobs for local people.
Yen expressed his hope that the VCL Business Club would further boost activities to promote trade and investment with Vietnamese enterprises./.
