At the event (Source: VNA) Speaking highly of Kansai firms’ strength in equipment manufacturing,mechanical engineering, support industry and trade, the PM wished that theywould soon launch projects in Vietnam.
He suggested developing a particular scheme for Kansai region based on surveyresults, adding that Kansai businesses should pour capital into keyinfrastructure projects, particularly those in public-private partnershipmodel, environment and water resources treatment, renewable energy, finance-banking,and especially equitisation of State-owned enterprises.
Vietnam is committed to creating the most favourableconditions for Japanese firms to do long-term business in the country, hestated.
Participating Kansai firms operate in electronics, trade,iron and steel, food processing, banking, construction, media, health care andindustrial parks.
They asked the Vietnamese government to upgradeinfrastructure, further develop support industry, and minimise foreign exchangerisks for investors due to materials import.
As Japan’s major economic and industrial region, Kansai ishome to 10 prefectures including three big cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe withstrength in manufacturing industry. The Kansai economic region is worth nearly931 billion USD, focusing on garment, chemicals and electronic spare parts.
Meeting Osaka prefecture authorities the same day, PM Phucsaid Vietnam always treasures the expansion of cooperation with Japanese localities,including Osaka prefecture and other localities in Kansai region, consideringit an important factor to push forward Vietnam-Japan extensive and practicalties.
Lauding the results of cooperation between Osaka prefectureand Vietnamese localities, especially Ho Chi Minh City and Hoi An city, he thankedOsaka authorities and people for actively helping the Vietnamese ConsulateGeneral well perform its role as a bridge linking Kansai region and Vietnam, aswell as assisting the Vietnamese nationals living here.
On the occasion, he asked Governor of Osaka prefectureIchiro Matsui and Kansai authorities to encourage local enterprises, especiallysmall- and medium-size ones, to invest in Vietnam in the fields of high technologyand support industry, as well as share experience with Vietnam in workforce trainingand technological transfer in agriculture, and enhance labour coordination,including welcoming more Vietnamese technical apprentices to the region.
He wished that Osaka would encourage other Kansai localitiesto establish cooperative ties and reinforce mutually-beneficial collaborationwith Vietnam.
Governor Matsui, for his part, vowed to continue support forthe Vietnamese Consulate General in Osaka and the Vietnamese nationals livingin the prefecture, thus contributing to intensifying exchanges and mutualunderstanding between the two countries’ people.
In a meeting with leaders of the Kansai regional chapter of theJapan-Vietnam Friendship Association, the Vietnamese leader hailed the chapterfor boosting bilateral ties over the past two decades.
President of the chapter Teiichi Nishimura informed the PMthat the chapter has connected Japanese firms with Vietnamese partners, as wellas held cultural and art exchanges over the past years.
He vowed to do his best to strengthen exchanges and mutualunderstanding between the two countries’ people, including those from Kansaiand Vietnamese localities.-VNA
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