On the morning of June 28, at the Government Headquarters, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a discussion with representatives of UK businesses investing in Vietnam.
Also attending the seminar were the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the UK to Vietnam Ian Grant Frew and representatives of 25 UK businesses investing in Vietnam. On the Vietnamese side, there were representatives of leaders of relevant ministries, branches and agencies.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh would like to express his sincere thanks for his presence and the profound, frank, objective, constructive comments, demonstrating the enthusiasm and desire of the British business community at the seminar.
The Prime Minister called on the UK and UK businesses to make 6 breakthroughs with Vietnam:
First, connecting two economies more closely, more substantially, more effectively, on the principle of the market, cooperating to develop together, both sides benefit.
Second, implementing the 4th industrial revolution, promoting science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, developing artificial intelligence, blockchain technology...
Third, focus on green transformation, climate change response, and achieve Vietnam's net zero emissions target by 2050.
Fourth, cooperation in health, education, culture, sports, especially the popularization of English, making English the second language.
Fifth, cooperation in finance and banking, especially in building international financial centers in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, free trade centers of Vietnam.
Sixth, connecting Vietnamese enterprises to the global value chain, developing Vietnamese startups in the technology sector.
According to the Prime Minister, the implementation of these 6 breakthroughs will create new momentum, new impetus, and new inspiration for both sides. Vietnam is committed to continuing to build a business environment in accordance with market economy, laws of the two countries, laws and international practices; ensuring security, safety, ensuring the legitimate and legal rights and interests of foreigners and foreign enterprises, including British enterprises in Vietnam; building long-term stable policies, ensuring freedom of business, property rights, and healthy competition, so that investors can operate stably, develop and increasingly achieve higher efficiency.
The Prime Minister affirmed that the Vietnamese side always listens, understands, shares and works with partners to resolve difficulties and problems in the spirit of harmonious benefits and shared risks, especially harmonizing institutions and procedures between Vietnam and international practices and between Vietnam and the UK to facilitate the settlement of administrative procedures and promote mutual recognition.
"With the spirit of promoting intelligence, valuing time and determination at the right time, with the spirit that nothing is impossible, what is good must be promoted faster and more effectively, what is inadequate must be removed and eliminated... we must share vision and coordinate actions to achieve specific results, balanced and measurable, working together, winning together, enjoying together, sharing joy and happiness from the achievements and values that both sides have achieved" - the Prime Minister emphasized.
