VN, Russia to boost cooperation in heavy industry
Vietnam and the Russian province
of Sverdlovsk should step up cooperation in the mining, metallurgy
and machinery manufacturing industries.
Deputy
Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai and Sverdlovsk’s Governor A.S Misharin
reached consensus on the issue during their meeting in Hanoi on
April 6.
Hai said the Russian people always are
close friends of the Vietnamese people, noting that the traditional
friendship between the two nations was built and tested in the past, is
developing at present and will be lasting forever in the future.
The Russian Federation and Sverdlovsk , in particular, have helped
train tens of thousands of Vietnamese officials, he said, adding the
Russian Federation is assisting Vietnam in training the workforce
for its first nuclear power plant.
Misharin said
Sverdlovsk has demands for Vietnam ’s processed agricultural products,
and the province can share experience and provide Vietnam with
plant protection techniques and cattle feed production technologies.
Being home to 32 universities and 100 modern research centres,
Sverdlovsk is willing to receive Vietnamese students and postgraduates
for further study, he said.
Misharin took this
occasion to invite Deputy PM Hai and Vietnamese firms to participate in a
machinery manufacturing equipment fair scheduled to be held in
Sverdlovsk in July 2011, which he said, will offer Vietnamese companies a
lot of cooperation opportunities./.