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| Delegates at the conference (Photo: VNA) |
The event was jointly held by the Dutch Business Association Vietnam (DBAV), the provincial People’s Committee, and the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands.
Speaking at the conference, Vietnamese Ambassador to the Netherlands Pham Viet Anh affirmed that this was a welcome result, concretizing the content of local cooperation after Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's visit to the Netherlands in December 2022. The Ambassador also shared information about the Netherlands, one of the countries with strong economic potential in Europe and the world; a country that develops with creativity, not only thanks to natural resources.
The Ambassador affirmed that the two countries have a long-standing trade relationship, and the fact that more and more Dutch enterprises are operating and developing in Vietnam such as De Heus, Freisland Campina, Heinekein, Deamen and Nedspices proves that the two sides have been in need of each other. He expressed his belief that this event opens a new development step for Dutch and Ha Nam partners, contributing to promoting the Vietnam - Netherlands Comprehensive Partnership in general and economic cooperation between the two countries in particular.
On this occasion, Chairman of the Ha Nam Provincial People's Committee Truong Quoc Huy introduced the potential and investment opportunities in Ha Nam province - a land with a favorable geographical position and infrastructure system, natural resources, and abundant natural resources and high quality labor. Over the past years, Ha Nam has always seen an economic growth rate of over 10%, and maintained a place in Vietnam’s top 15 provinces in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction. With industry as the focus for socio-economic development of the province, as a driving force to promote the development of trade and tourism services, Mr. Huy wished and called on Dutch investors to continue to expand investment in high-tech agricultural production, supporting industries, logistics and tourism.
For her part, Ms. Nga Dang, DBAV Vice President, introduced the Netherlands - Vietnam Business Association, emphasizing that DBAV is the bridge to bring European businesses to the Vietnamese market and vice versa.
At the conference, businesses showed great interest in Ha Nam's policies, procedures and investment environment; and expressed their willingness to share and advise Dutch businesses heading to Ha Nam. Chairman of the Ha Nam Provincial People's Committee Truong Quoc Huy openly exchanged, answered and provided a lot of useful information for businesses./.