HCM City, Saint Petersburg boost cooperation across multiple fields
VOV.VN - Vo Van Hoan, vice chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, held a working session on December 4 alongside a delegation of Saint Petersburg led by Grigoriev Evgeny Dmitrievich, chairman of the Committee for External Relations of the Russian city.
At the session, Hoan affirmed that the southern metropolis stands willing to boost co-operative activities with St Petersburg in trade, education, and healthcare.
The city incentivises and offers favourable conditions for local businesses to engage in trade with St Petersburg, while also striving to intensify cultural and people-to-people exchanges between the two localities, he said.
Hoan emphasised that the southern city hailed the signing of collaboration agreements between Vyborgsky district and Thu Duc city, as well as between Kronstadt district and Can Gio district, hoping that the agreements will soon be translated into specific co-operation programmes and projects.
Moreover, Ho Chi Minh City stays ready to work alongside St Petersburg to speed up the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on co-operation between the elected bodies of the two cities.
In response, the Russian official noted that St Petersburg desires to work with Ho Chi Minh City to concretise co-operation agreements into specific tasks and projects for the wider benefit of people of the two countries.
Highlighting the socio-economic potential and position of the southern city, he called on municipals leaders to support the signing of MoUs for the purpose of boosting co-operation between districts and agencies of the two localities.
Dmitrievich added that he backs the launch of direct flights between St Petersburg and the southern city moving forward.
