Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee works with Japanese partners on the occasion of the Japanese Prime Minister's official visit to Vietnam

On the afternoon of October 19, Mr. Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, together with Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Ngoc Hoa and leaders of the Department of Foreign Affairs worked with AEON MALL Vietnam Company, Mitsubishi Corporation Vietnam Company, JICA and JETRO Japan to promote FDI investment activities and ODA aid in Nghe An province.

On October 19, in Hanoi, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung worked with JICA and JETRO Japan in Vietnam. Photo: Phan Tu

At the meeting, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung informed the partners about the province's potential and strengths, the results of cooperation between Nghe An province and Japan in recent times, and proposed promoting investment cooperation activities in the coming time.

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Nakagawa Tetsuyuki - General Director of AEON MALL Vietnam Company said that the company has currently invested in 7 projects in Vietnam out of a total of 20 projects planned for 2025. The company will continue to survey investment locations in Nghe An province, a strategic location in the company's business development plan in Vietnam.

Nghe An provincial leaders met and worked with the General Director of AEON MALL Vietnam Company. Photo: Phan Tu

Next, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee met and worked with Mr. Tet-su Fu-nay-a-ma - General Director of Mitsubishi Corporation Vietnam. The two sides discussed new directions for cooperation in the coming time in the field of urban infrastructure and high-end commercial centers in Nghe An province in the spirit of the Memorandum of Understanding on strategic cooperation for Nghe An development signed in 2018.

Vietnam and Japan established diplomatic relations on September 21, 1973. In recent years, the relationship between the two countries has developed rapidly and is currently at its best ever.

Nghe An province always considers Japan as one of the top important partners for cooperation and development, and at the same time identifies Japan as a key partner for cooperation in the province's international integration strategy with a vision of 2030 - 2035. Some activities can be summarized as follows: Signing the Memorandum of Friendship Cooperation with Gifu province of Japan in 2015; signing the Memorandum of Cooperation with JICA and JETRO Japan in September 2019 in the fields of: Agricultural and rural development; Promoting Japanese investment in Nghe An province; Human resource development; Organizing the Nghe An - Japan Meeting Conference and the Conference connecting Nghe An enterprises with Japanese enterprises in Nghe An... Up to now, the province has attracted 10 Japanese investment projects with a total capital of 113 million USD in the fields of: limestone mining, food, garment...

Nghe An province delegation took a souvenir photo with the General Director of Mitsubishi Corporation Vietnam. Photo: Phan Tu

Outstanding in cooperation activities with Japan are the aid projects of the Japanese Government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency in Vietnam (JICA) for Nghe An province in many fields such as: infrastructure construction, agriculture, rural areas...

Up to now, Japan has funded Nghe An with 44 programs and projects, with a total of more than 5,000 billion VND (equivalent to 217.5 million USD), including some typical projects such as: Project to Restore and Upgrade the Northern Nghe An Irrigation System... During that process, agricultural cooperation between the provinceNghe An and JICA are considered models for cooperation.of JICA with localities of Vietnam.JICA's support to Nghe An province through ODA projects has made an important contribution to socio-economic development and infrastructure improvement in Nghe An.

In the coming time, JICA and JETRO will continue to support Nghe An province in the field of agriculture, organize training courses, send Japanese experts to work, and organize investment promotion activities in Vietnam and Japan.

At the end of the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung invited the General Director of AEON MALL Vietnam and Mitsubishi Corporation Vietnam, Chief Representative of JICA and JETRO Japan to visit Nghe An to promote more effective cooperation activities between the two sides in the coming time.