JETRO supports Ha Giang province in investment attraction
Representatives of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) and Japanese businesses worked with leaders of northern Ha Giang province on July 31to help the locality lure more Japanese investors.
A view of Dong Van Karst Plateau in northern Ha Giang province. (Photo: VNA)
Representatives of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Japanese businesses worked with leaders of northern mountainous Ha Giang province on July 31 in an effort to help the locality lure more Japanese investors.
Speaking at the working session, Atsusuke Kawada, Chief of the JETRO Office in Hanoi, spoke highly of the province’s advantages and potentials as well as its investment attraction plan to fuel economic growth.
At the end of this year, the JETRO Office in Hanoi and dozen of Japanese firms will provide consultancy to help Ha Giang province appeal more new Japanese businesses to the locality, he noted.
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Trieu Tai Vinh said the province always open its door to foreign investors and pledged to support them with consistent preferential policies while ensuring political stability and social order.
He hoped that the JETRO Office would assist the locality in investment promotion.
Mountainous Ha Giang province is home to spectacular Dong Van Karst Plateau, which was recognised as a member of the Global Network of National Geoparks (GGN) in 2010, making it a very potential spot to develop eco-tourism, cultural and adventure tourism.
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A view of Dong Van Karst Plateau in northern Ha Giang province. (Photo: VNA)
