PM Dung expressed his pleasure at seeing that dozens of Ningbo’s enterprises doing business with Vietnamese firms.

He also asked leaders of Ningbo city to create favourable conditions for is enterprises to invest and cooperate with Vietnam, pledging that Vietnam will support enterprises and investors from the city and China as well in running long-term business operations in the Southeast Asian country.

Chairman Bayin Chaolu welcomed PM Dung and his entourage’s visit to the city describing it as an import opportunity for the city to boost cooperation with Vietnam in many fields.

Ningbo’s enterprises consider Vietnam an attractive investment destination, he said, affirming to create favourable conditions for them to invest in Vietnam.

Since China applied the open-door policy, Ningbo has become on of the three largest economic centres in Zhejiang province and an important industrial area of the Changjiang river delta.

Ningbo city has become China’s most dynamic economic area with a GDP growth rate of 18.8 percent in the first quarter of 2010.

As scheduled, PM Dung will attend the Vietnam-China Economic-Trade Forum in Ningbo city on April 29.