Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed an official dispatch on the implementation of urgent measures to settle goods congestion and promote the export of farm produce through northern border gates.
The northern border gates have been restored after three years of stagnation, helping Vietnam's import-export turnover with China through the northern border provinces increase by 242% in the first quarter of this year over the same period last year.
Authorities of the northern border province of Lang Son had a working session with a delegation from the Thai Ministry of Commerce (MOC) and Thai Embassy in Vietnam, led by the MOC’s Permanent Secretary Keerati Rushchano, to discuss creating favourable for the transport of fruits from Thailand to China via border gates in Lang Son.
Export-import activities via Lao Cai border gate in the northern border province of Lao Cai thrived in the first quarter this year, reaching nearly 186 million USD, reported the local customs agency.
One of the efforts taken by the US Embassy in Vietnam is to help Vietnam with sustainable development, and partner with local communities to protect Vietnam's biodiversity, said US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the People’s Committee of the northern border province of Lao Cai on February 10 jointly held an agricultural product connection forum, which focused on seeking ways to promote farm produce trade between Vietnam and China.
Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue on January 16 visited and presented gifts to social policy beneficiaries, poor households, and disadvantaged labourers and soldiers in Bat Xat district in the northern border province of Lao Cai, ahead of the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival - the most important and longest of Vietnamese in a year.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 16 visited and presented gifts to local armed forces, policy beneficiary families, revolutionary beneficiaries and the needy in the northern province of Cao Bang on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet), the most important and longest festival of Vietnamese people in a year.
A ceremony was held at the Vi Xuyen National Martyrs’ Cemetery in the northern province of Ha Giang on July 10 to rebury the remains of 10 soldiers who sacrificed their lives during battles to defend the country’s northern border line.
A meeting between secretaries of the Party Committees of the Vietnamese northern border provinces of Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Ha Giang and Lai Chau, and China’s Yunnan province took place virtually on April 27.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has asked leaders of northern border provinces to work with Chinese authorities to set up a “common green zone” model to speed up customs clearance procedures and settle the congestion in border gates.
There are only nine border gates and crossings along the Vietnam-China land border operating after the Lunar New Year festival, causing difficulties for customs clearance for goods, the General Department of Vietnam Customs said.
Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien has directed northern localities to apply drastic measures to resolve the congestion of goods in border gates, including setting up pandemic green zones for loading, unloading and technical treatment of goods, ensuring safety against the pandemic for both goods and transporters.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid a working trip to Dam Thuy border station and Trung Khanh district in the northern border province of Cao Bang on November 15.
The Office of the People’s Committee of northern border Lao Cai province on November 10 reported that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has decided to offer a non-refundable aid worth 1 million USD to the province to carry out a project on sustainable forest management and biodiversity preservation.
The northern border province of Cao Bang on November 5 recorded its first-ever COVID-19 case which was detected in Na Sai village in Yen Tho commune of Bao Lam district.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has lauded the northern province of Lang Son for its efforts in maintaining a borderline of peace and friendship with China, thus well serving socio-economic development.
Remains of three soldiers who laid down their lives in the struggle to safeguard the northern border were reburied at Vi Xuyen National Martyrs’ Cemetery in the northernmost province of Ha Giang on August 25.
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