Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) London, (VNA) – Vietnam is encouraging European enterprises toinvest in environmentally-friendly fields in the country, Minister of Industryand Trade Nguyen Hong Dien has said.
Dien made the statement while addressing the conferencenamed “In conversation at COP26 with the Prime Minister of Vietnam: Securing aprosperous and sustainable future through private investment”, held by theministry and Standard Chartered Bank in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade will promote the digitaltransformation process in all production and trade fields and pursue asustainable development model, Dien said, adding that Vietnam will strive forcleaner and greener production, use energy more economically and efficiently,develop foundation industries and supporting industries more synchronously.
The Vietnamese official encouraged European businesses andinvestors to develop cooperation projects in line with Vietnam's practicalneeds and its industrial development strategy in the comingtime.
At the working session between Minister Dien and the group chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (Source: congthuong.vn) Dien expressed his hope that Standard Chartered will havemore cooperation projects to help Vietnam build an effective digitaltransformation mechanism. He proposed the bank finance projects to developindustries, especially foundation and supporting industries, to help turn Vietnam into an important production base for supply chains of European enterprises as well as global supply chains.
Standard Chartered is one of the first five international banks to be present inVietnam, officially operating in the country in 2009./.
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