President Sang greets Japanese entrepreneurs

President Truong Tan Sang hosted a reception in Hanoi on October 14 for a Japanese business delegation in Vietnam to attend a Vietnam-Japan economic forum held on the same day.

 

Japan is a partner of top significance for Vietnam amidst global integration, he stated, and expressed hope that the country would continue taking the lead in trade, investment and supply of official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam.

 

The President also took note of the close relations between many Japanese and Vietnamese localities and their co-operation in workforce training and agriculture.

 

He asked for Japan’s assistance in training human resources in the support industry – a developing field in Vietnam.

 

Yuri Sato, Vice President of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), informed her host of the contents of discussions at the Vietnam – Japan economic forums, including the impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal on business operations.

 

Sato said more and more Japanese are interested in the Vietnamese market, as demonstrated in the large number of more than 12,000 entrepreneurs seeking information via JETRO about doing business in Vietnam.

 

Mentioning difficulties that Japanese investors have encountered in Vietnam, including the low rate of locally-made materials that leads to over-reliance on other foreign supplies, she assured that Japanese companies would help Vietnam improve its competitiveness and workforce quality.

 

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)