A delegation from HCM City, led by Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong, on April 5 started a working visit to Japan to boost cooperation with the Japanese localities.
The Mekong Delta province of Long An expects to raise 11 trillion VND (484 million USD) in funding for new-style rural building projects in 2018 as the province aims to have nine more communes and one district earn the status this year.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long to make greater efforts to become a leading locality in terms of development in the next decade with its economy and local people’s income rising fourfold.
A conference entitled “Meet Japan – Mekong Delta region” will take place in Can Tho city on April 18 and19, expected to provide the city a golden opportunity to promote trade and investment ties with Japanese firms.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will be calling for investment in local logistic services, tourism, hi-tech agriculture and IT projects at its investment promotion conference slated for August 8-10.
Ireland will increase supporting Hanoi to develop hi-tech agriculture, Irish Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture Andrew Doyle told Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung.
The first-ever Business Forum will be a highlight of the sixth Greater Mekong Sub-region Summit (GMS 6) to be held in Vietnam later this month, heard an international press conference in Hanoi on March 15.
Vietnam always encourages and creates all possible conditions for Japanese firms to invest in the country, especially in manufacturing industry and high-tech agriculture, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has said.
Officials from the Department of Planning and Investment and other relevant agencies and sectors in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau met on March 6 to seek measures to draw in more investment.
The central province of Quang Tri has attracted eight projects in high technology and green agriculture worth over 160 billion VND (7.02 million USD), according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The average production value per hectare of agricultural land in Ho Chi Minh City has increased year after year even as the area shrank, according to the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has approved a 70-billion VND (3.1 million USD) project to develop orange farms and medicinal plant farms in Nam Dong district.
Ho Chi Minh City hopes to implement cooperation programmes with Cuba in such potential fields as health care, hi-tech agriculture, and food processing.
Ho Chi Minh City and Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture boast huge cooperation potential in tourism, food processing and high-tech agricultural production, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is calling for 19.58 trillion VND (851.52 million USD) in investment in 68 projects in this year, heard an investment promotion forum held in Rach Gia city on January 15.
Ho Chi Minh City hopes to have more cooperation activities with Japanese localities, including Aomori prefecture, to develop hi-tech agriculture, said a local official.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted the importance of agriculture and rural development to the country’s modernisation cause during a meeting in Hanoi on January 4.
VinEco, the agriculture arm of VinGroup, expects to expand its distribution network three times to more than 3,500 supermarkets and convenient stores in 2018, said Nguyen Thi Nguyet from VinEco.
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