State President confident of stronger Vietnam – Japan relations
VOV.VN - The extensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Japan is developing deeply and effectively, especially in the fields of trade, ODA, education, culture, and labour cooperation.
State President nguyen Xuan Phuc was speaking while receiving Kuroiwa Yuji, governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, in Hanoi on November 20.
Cooperation between the two countries’ localities plays an important role in bilateral relations, and strengthening such local cooperation and exchanges will create the prerequisite for elevating the Vietnam – Japan partnership to new heights.
The President highly appreciated the Governor’s role in promoting relations between Kanagawa and Vietnam, notably through trade networking seminars and annual cultural exchange events, including the recent Kanagawa Festival in Hanoi that attracted a large number of visitors.
Acknowledging that Kanagawa and Vietnamese localities hold great potential for investment and business cooperation, Phuc called on Kanagawa businesses to step up investment in high-quality agriculture, supporting industries, information technology, health care, cancer screening, wastewater treatment, and environmental protection in Vietnam.
The President proposed Kanagawa expand the reception of Vietnamese trainees, nurses and labourers, and at the same time create favourable conditions for the Vietnamese community to live, study and work in their host community.
Yuji, for his part, briefed his host on the results of the recent Kanagawa Festival in Hanoi, which he said helped promote not only cultural exchanges but also business opportunities between the two countries.
He affirmed many businesses of Kanagawa are keen to invest in Vietnam, and expected their businesses would receive support and assistance from the government of Vietnam in undertaking their future projects in the country.
Kanagawa will host more cultural, education and economic exchanges with Vietnam, and it will give full support to Vietnamese students in studying in the prefecture, Yuri affirmed.
He shared issues related to aging population and expressed Kanagawa’s desires to promote cooperation with Vietnam to effectively respond to this challenge in the future.