Laos - Vietnam Trade, Culture and Tourism Center expected to be built in Can Tho

Lao delegation and leaders of Can Tho City People's Committee (Photo: SGGP)

The construction is expected to have a minimum floor area of 1 ha, to be built with 100% FDI capital from Laos or a joint venture between enterprises of the two countries.

It will be a place to welcome high-ranking leaders of the two countries, ASEAN countries, and the world during their visits to the Mekong Delta in general and Can Tho City in particular. Together with it, the Lao side will grant an equivalent land area to Can Tho City in Xiengkhouang province, to build a trade center in order to boost cultural exchange and economic development between the two provinces in particular and the two countries in general.

Ms Phimpha Keomixay said that 2022 is the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations, the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, and the Year of Solidarity and Friendship between Vietnam and Laos. “To record this important milestone, the Lao side has carried out a lot of trade and people-to-people diplomacy activities in various fields at state and local levels,” she added. “In that spirit, the Laos side wishes to continue to invest in building the Laos - Vietnam Trade, Culture and Tourism Center in Can Tho City.”

Receiving the Lao delegation, Nguyen Thuc Hien, Vice Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee, expressed high agreement on the idea of establishing the Laos - Vietnam Trade, Culture and Tourism Center in Can Tho City. “This can be considered a typical project in the cooperation between Vietnam - Laos in general and Can Tho City - Laos in particular,” he said.

He also directed relevant departments and agencies to actively support the Lao side in completing documents and procedures; consider master plans on land use in the overall vision of urban planning; as well as the provisions of Vietnamese law in construction investment and in completing the procedures./.