The meeting between Vice Chairwoman of the HCM City People’s Committee Phan Thi Thang (R) and Jeremy Harrison, Minister of Trade and Export Development at the Government of Saskatchewan province, on December 15. (Photo: VNA)Harrison said his visit aims to further intensify cooperation,especially in economy, with HCM City to contribute to the Canada - Vietnam cooperationand friendship.
He noted the administration of Saskatchewan highly values HCM City’s economic development potential and importantrole in the Vietnamese economy, adding that the city is the first locality inVietnam where his province locates its office in.
On the basis ofthe sound cooperation between Vietnam and Canada, Saskatchewan wishes to further strengthen ties with HCM City in the fields of mutualconcern, especially those matching the Canadian province’s strengths such asagriculture, education - training, and rare earth mining, the official said
Appreciating the Saskatchewan delegation’s highevaluation of Vietnam and HCM City, Thang said as an economic hub of theSoutheast Asian country, her city welcomes Canadian enterprises’ investment in thefields they are strong at like clean technology, green energy, education, and trainingof high-quality human resources.
Businesses of HCM City are dynamic and creative while the localadministration has also been working hard to make reforms, devise new mechanisms, andalign policies with the local development situation. Given this, the city hopesto cooperate with Saskatchewan in exchanging urban and social management experience,she added.
Saskatchewan is one of theindustrial manufacturing centres of Prairie region and Canada as awhole. It is also home to many leading universities of Canada./.
VNA
