HCMC boosts cooperation with Canada’s Ontario in many fields

Vice Chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan presents souvenir to Minister Vic Fedeli (Photo: hcmcpv.org.vn)

At the reception, Mr. Vo Van Hoan highly appreciated the Canadian Government for choosing Vietnam as one of the three priority countries to promote trade and investment.

He said Ontario could cooperate with Ho Chi Minh City in wood production and processing, pharmaceuticals and vaccine production.

Additionally, the Deputy Chairman called investors from Ontario to pour their more investment in fields of information technology, AI, digital transformation.

The HCMC leader also proposed that HCMC and Ontario should consider signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU).

For his part, Mr. Vic Fedeli said that the official visit to HCMC took place on the occasion of the two countries are marking the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations, affirming that the relationship between the two countries would be more and more developed, especially in the field of trade.

He said the community of Vietnamese Canadians, just over 150,000 in Ontario and over 275,000 in Canada, serving as a friendship bridge and a driving force to step up bilateral cooperation.

At the meeting, Minister Vic Fedeli agreed with the proposal of widening the cooperation programs with HCMC in the fields of vaccine research and production, professional training, wastewater treatment, green energy and trade exchange.

He said that Ontario is ready to deepen the government-to-government, business-to-business and people-to-people relationship between the two localities./.