Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan made the remark while receiving a delegation from Banteay Meanchay, led by its Governor Oung Oeun on October 3. 

At the reception, the two leaders affirmed that many businesses in Vietnam and in Ho Chi Minh City have launched trade promotions and engaged in effective investment in Cambodia’s localities recently, with two-way trade between Vietnam and Cambodia reaching about US$2 billion. 

Quan said the visit would contribute to promoting the multifaceted relations between the two localities. 

Oung Oeun expressed his pleasure at witnessing the strong and dynamic development of Ho Chi Minh City and said he wished to further strengthen and tighten cooperation between the two localities and the two nations in the future. 

Oung Oeun introduced Banteay Meanchay province’s potential for development of tourism, agricultural and mineral exploitation to the HCM City’s leader, hoping that Vietnamese businesses will invest in producing wheat flour and cement as well as in planting rubber trees in the province. There is plan afoot to replace 40,000 hectares of forest with rubber trees.