Can Tho City outlines international cooperation plans
(VOV) - The Can Tho municipal People’s Committee on July 4 outlined long-term goals for heightened cooperation with foreign nations at a working session with Vietnam’s overseas representative offices.
For Russia, the city is focusing on expanded cooperation in the fields of trade, investment, energy, and hi-tech agriculture production.
Committee members suggested Vietnam’s representative office in France help facilitate cooperation in health care, education and training, transportation, and aviation.
Meanwhile, Belgium has strengths in mechanical engineering, chemicals, textiles, and oil refining that are prime areas for cooperation the city would like to benefit from. The City is also calling on the Belgian Government for Official Development Assistance (ODA) on a US$10.4 million hospital project.
The Committee hopes that Vietnam’s representative office in Belgium will serve as a bridge for the two sides to work together in the aforementioned fields.
The US is a great potential trade partner of Vietnam in the key exporting areas of garments and textiles, seafood, footwear and rice for which the City is placing much hope of widening cooperation.
Can Tho wants Vietnamese representative offices in central and south Asian nations to push for trade for the export of agricultural products and seafood.