On the morning of November 8, in Chongqing city, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a Vietnam-China business forum on the occasion of attending the 8th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit and a working visit to China.
According to VNA, speaking at the seminar, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the similarities and closeness between Vietnam and China in terms of nature, culture and history.
Accordingly, the two countries have "mountains connected to mountains, rivers connected to rivers", a long history of relations, and a friendship of "both comrades and brothers". In particular, after recent mutual visits by senior leaders of the two Parties and two countries, the Vietnam - China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership has a solid political foundation, a similar cultural foundation, a favorable legal foundation, an open market foundation, and the building of a Vietnam - China Community of Shared Future has strategic significance.
The Prime Minister said that with those foundations, it is necessary to promote economic, trade and investment cooperation more strongly and more effectively.
The Prime Minister suggested that businesses of the two countries promote investment and business cooperation, promote the role of connecting the two economies, both in terms of hard and soft connections, traffic connections, telecommunications infrastructure, etc., contributing to concretizing the agreements of the top leaders of the two Parties and two countries, bringing benefits to businesses, the two countries and the two peoples, together developing a strong and prosperous country, bringing a prosperous and happy life to the people.
Regarding the proposals of enterprises, the Prime Minister said that the two countries are currently implementing smart customs to simplify customs clearance procedures. Along with that, the authorities of the two countries have been implementing policies related to logistics infrastructure development, financial support, technical cooperation, especially focusing on developing emerging industries such as digital economy, green economy, circular economy, etc., implementing traceability of products, packaging, product designs, etc.
At the seminar, businesses from the two countries signed seven memorandums of understanding (MOUs) in many fields, including the MOU between Vietnam Railways Corporation, Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) and the New Road and Sea Corridor Operation Company; the strategic cooperation framework agreement between Railway Transport and Trade Joint Stock Company and Yuxinou Supply Chain Management Company (Chongqing); MOU between Viettel Post and Sunwah Group; MOU between Vietnam National Shipping Lines and Sinotrans Company; T&T Group and Cospowers Limited Company, Goldwind International Holdings Limited Company of China on cooperation in the production of energy storage batteries and the development of energy support industries...
