Local and international visitors stroll in the walking zone surrounding the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi's downtown. (Source: VNA)
Paris (VNA) – Hanoi alwaysattaches great importance to comprehensive, effective and long-term cooperationwith the Ile-de-France region in various fields.
Secretary of the municipal Party Committee HoangTrung Hai made the affirmation during talks with President of the RegionalCouncil of Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse as part of his working visit toFrance from September 14-18.
He said Hanoi particularly wants to cooperatewith the French region in urban planning and management, public transport,waste and sewage treatment, clean water supply, air quality improvement,preservation of heritage sites, tourism development, technology transfer andhigh-tech agriculture.
The Hanoi leader praised the strength anddevelopment of Ile-de-France, which is one of the four most influential urbanareas in the world, along with London (the UK), New York (the US), and Tokyo(Japan).
Since the establishment of cooperative ties in1989, the relations between Hanoi and Ile-de-France have been reinforced anddeveloped in numerous fields such as urban management, public transport,environment, preservation of heritage values, and tourism, Hai said.
For her part, Valérie Pécresse agreed with Hai’srecommendations and said there is still large room for the bilateralcooperation.
In the coming time, Ile-de-France will continuesupporting Hanoi in traditional cooperation fields, especially within theframework of the programme to improve Hanoi urban environmental quality fundedby the French Development Agency (AFD) for 2018-2021, she said.
The French region will make it easier forHanoi’s startup firms to work at Paris startup centres and arrange forsuccessful French businesses to visit Hanoi to exchange experience andencourage the development of a startup community in Hanoi and Vietnam as awhole.
During his stay in France, Hai had a workingsession with National Secretary of the French CommunistParty (FCP) Fabien Roussel.
He also visited French groups and businesses operatinghigh-tech models in clean water supply, waste and sewage treatment./.
Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung met with representatives from 30 French enterprises in various sectors in the capital city on November 3 to discuss potential cooperation between the two sides.
Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung thanked France for providing ODA for Hanoi to carry out projects in cultural preservation, environmental treatment and infrastructure, including urban railway, and asked for more ODA loans to develop transport infrastructure.
President of Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse said cooperation between her region and Hanoi is the model for other Vietnamese and French localities to follow at talks with Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung in Hanoi on July 16.
Secretary of the Hanoi municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai has affirmed that Vietnam always highly values France’s role and position in its foreign policy and will do its best to foster bilateral ties in the near future.
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Local and international visitors stroll in the walking zone surrounding the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi's downtown. (Source: VNA) 
