According to VNA, within the framework of the State visit to Ireland, on the morning of October 3, in the capital Dublin, General Secretary and President To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation met with Irish businesses.
The chairmen, general directors and leaders of 15 of Ireland's largest corporations expressed their interest and investment in Vietnam, focusing on four key and potential areas of cooperation including: high technology, agriculture, industry - energy, and healthcare.
Through the exchange of Irish businesses, the General Secretary and President was pleased to see that many Irish businesses have had effective investment projects and achieved certain successes in many fields, in a number of localities of Vietnam.
For groups related to the fields of agriculture, healthcare, energy conversion, low-emission industry and especially high technology, biotechnology or semiconductors, these are also the industries that Vietnam is aiming to prioritize development in the coming time.
General Secretary and President To Lam shared his feelings about the energy and enthusiasm of the Irish business community in their determination to promote business, trade and investment cooperation with Vietnam in the coming time; and noted that the current number of 41 FDI projects with a capital of 60.82 million USD from Ireland in Vietnam is still modest compared to the potential of the two countries.
General Secretary and President To Lam stated that Vietnam is standing at a new historical starting point, a new era - the era of national growth.
Vietnam advocates effectively exploiting opportunities brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution to promote the process of growth model innovation, economic restructuring associated with implementing strategic breakthroughs and modernizing the country; strongly developing the digital economy; developing rapidly and sustainably based on science - technology, innovation and high-quality human resources.
With the above long-term vision, Vietnam aims to selectively attract investment towards the development of digital economy, green economy, circular economy, and knowledge economy. Accordingly, priority is given to projects in high technology, electronics, semiconductors, innovation, renewable energy, new energy (hydrogen), biotechnology, healthcare, international financial centers, modern trade and services, infrastructure construction, research and development activities, etc.
Suggesting some cooperation orientations in the coming time, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized that Vietnam hopes that Irish enterprises, with their capacity and resources, will continue to invest more strongly in Vietnam.
For businesses that have implemented projects in Vietnam, businesses are encouraged to expand cooperation projects.
For companies that are researching and studying investment in Vietnam, we hope that companies will prioritize and choose Vietnam as a strategic destination for investment and construction of facilities, on the one hand to supply manufactured products for the domestic market, on the other hand, to be able to take advantage of incentives from Vietnam's existing system of free trade agreements to export to regional and world markets.
General Secretary and President To Lam affirmed that Vietnam always welcomes and appreciates Irish businesses expanding cooperation.
