ABAC Vietnam President Hoang Van Dung told reporters on July 31 that the meeting is expected to call for a more congenial business climate, a better circulation of goods, capital and labour and a transparent legal system to protect the environment. The participants are likely to call on regional leaders to promote images of sustainably-developing cities as well as a regional programme on food.
Also under discussion will be an energy programme, measures to improve procedures for strengthening regional connections and opening up markets.

The focus will be on assisting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to speed up globalisation and integration, which Dung said the ABAC has done well in the recent past.

The ABAC Vietnam, for example, has successfully brought US, Japanese and Chinese giants to major investment projects in Vietnam, Dung emphasised.

He added that Vietnamese business circles themselves have managed to take advantage of opportunities brought in by the ABAC to promote their own businesses as well as images of the Vietnamese economy and its business community.

As a result, the flow of capital investment into Vietnam from APEC members have risen dramatically. In 2009 alone, the Southeast Asian economy is expected to draw over US$10 billion in foreign direct investment from other APEC members, the national ABAC chief said.