HCM City officials get earful from business leaders
(VOV) - On November 11, Ho Chi Minh City officials held a question and answer session with Japanese business leaders to discuss taxes, visas, air pollution, making improvements to roadways and installing traffic lights for pedestrians.
“This is the third such meeting of recent city officials have held to discuss needed improvements,” said Vice Director Cao Thi Phi Van of the HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC).
Van said the city has taken the problems and concerns to heart and has made substantial progress addressing them.
“They have satisfactorily resolved nearly 90% and will continue to work diligently on ironing out those thorny issues that remain,” said Van.
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Representatives of the Japan Business Association of HCM City (JBAH) in turn said last year they had 25 issues related to the environment. Currently the city has resolved or made substantial headway on 17 of them, leaving seven yet to be addressed.
However, the JBAH representative stressed the improvement of the business climate is not solely the responsibility of city officials and that Japanese businesses must shoulder some of it as well.
“They can do this by keeping updated on changes in laws and regulations to avoid misunderstanding and keep the chains of communication with officials open to timely voice consequential matters and get the city’s feedback,” said the representative.