What gift did Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc give President Trump?

During this visit, the gift that Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc brought to the US and gave to President Trump was the "American Lamp", considered a symbol of the relationship and economic diplomacy between the two countries Vietnam and the US in history.

Today (May 29), Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc led a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to pay an official visit to the United States of America at the invitation of President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc's visit will last for 3 days, from May 29 to 31, 2017.

This is Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc's first official visit to the United States as Prime Minister and the first contact between a senior Vietnamese leader and US President Donald Trump since both countries entered their new terms.

During this visit, the gift that Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc brought to the United States and gave to President Trump was the "American Lamp" with the image of a rice measuring cup (young rice) as the lamp base motif with the hidden meaning of rice culture, along with the lotus motif symbolizing the goodness of the Vietnamese soul, creating a highlight from the lamp neck down to the lamp base.

On the lamp shade is a scroll and the Vietnamese - American flag motif with a message of expanding trade, firmly establishing comprehensive cooperation. With a height of 32cm (lamp body) and a diameter of 12cm, the feng shui (glass bulb) is 12cm high.

The American lighthouse is considered a symbol of the relationship and economic diplomacy between the two countries Vietnam and the United States in history.

Explaining the origin and name of the American lamp, the manufacturer said that the oil lamp began to appear in Vietnam in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the American oil company brought kerosene to sell in Vietnam. At that time, Vietnamese people were used to using peanut oil or candles for lighting, but not kerosene. To market and sell the oil, the American oil company gave away lamps to oil buyers, and the name American lamp (Huế Kỳ) started from there.

The American lamp has been effective because of its superiority over lamps using peanut oil and candles. And the American lamp has become familiar with Vietnamese people's lives. Hundreds of years have passed and many Vietnamese people still call this lamp the American lamp, although there have been hundreds of types of lamps created by Vietnamese people, improving on the principles of the old American lamp.

The American lamp is considered a symbol of the relationship and economic diplomacy between the two countries Vietnam and the US in history. Linking a sustainable relationship based on the foundation of mutual benefit, expanding trade and wishing for a strong Vietnam - US relationship and moving forward together.

In recent years, Vietnam - US relations have achieved positive developments in all areas since the two countries established a Comprehensive Partnership in July 2013. Since 2005, the US has become one of Vietnam's leading trade partners. Two-way trade turnover has grown continuously at 20% in recent years, estimated at 53 billion USD in 2016.

Regarding investment, as of November 2016, the United States ranked 8th out of 112 countries and territories with foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam with 815 projects, and ranked 9th out of 68 countries receiving FDI from Vietnam with 147 projects.

According to Dan Tri