At the meeting (Photo: VNA)Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – Chairman of the People’sCommittee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Phong on November 8 received JohnBarilaro, Deputy Premier of Australia’s New South Wales state, now on a working visitto Vietnam.
Phong spoke highly of the fine relations between the twocountries in general, and between the city and the state in particular. Hebriefed his guest on the southern hub’s efforts to become a major economic,financial, trade, science-technology centre of Southeast Asia, stressing thatthe city need new-tech solutions to cope with the impact of climate change, amongothers, describing this as a good chance for businesses and investors fromAustralia to join development projects.
The city welcomes Australian enterprises bringing along newtechnology and solutions, the municipal leader said, expressing his hope thaton the basis of the signing cooperation documents between the two sides, thestate’s administration will provide technical support in the field of cleanwater supply and wastewater treatment.
For his part, the New South Wales official said his stateand the city are enjoying good ties in every field. The recent signing manifeststhe commitments of the two sides to the further boosting of trade and investmentbetween the two localities, the said.
The guest expressed his hope that the two localities willsoon work out concrete cooperation projects , especially in the field ofeducation, natural resources and energy, agriculture, startups, small- and medium-sizedenterprises, infrastructure investment, science and technology, and tourism./.
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