Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phucwill lead a high-level delegation of Vietnam to the annual conference of theWorld Economic Forum (WEF), to be held in Davos, Switzerland, from January 22-25.
Vietnam and the WEF began their cooperation in 1989. TheSoutheast Asian country has always attached great importance to cooperation withthis high-profile forum.
Vietnam is the sole Southeast Asian nation with which theWEF has signed and implemented a cooperation deal under the public-privatepartnership format. As part of this important deal, the WEF provides supportand consultancy to Vietnam on improving its capacity to join the FourthIndustrial Revolution.
The country organised the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF-ASEAN2018) in September last year under the theme of “ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurshipand the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” WEF Founder and Executive Chairman Prof.Klaus Schwab said that the WEF-ASEAN 2018 is the most successful regionalmeeting of the WEF.-VNA