New Vietnamese ambassadors hoped to help with HCM City’s development
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong received a delegation of the new heads of Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies for 2019-2022 on October 4.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (standing) speaks at the meeting with the new heads of Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies for 2019-2022 on October 4 (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Chairman of the HoChi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong received a delegation ofthe new heads of Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies for 2019-2022 onOctober 4.
Wishing the 21 diplomats a successful term,Phong expressed his hope that they will be dynamic ambassadors helping topopularise HCM City’s image as a friendly and liveable destination amongforeigners.
He pledged that the city will always listen toand be a firm support for the overseas representative agencies to fulfill theirassigned tasks, thus helping with national development.
The official stressed external work plays acrucial role in attracting and optimising external resources in terms ofcapital, knowledge and technology for developing the city into a modern,sustainable and liveable place for all people.
Over the past years, HCM City has carried outexternal work via all channels of the Party, administration and people, and inthe pillars of politics, economy, culture, people-to-people diplomacy.
The work has helped not only promote the role,stature and socio-economic development of HCM City but also realise the Partyand State’s foreign policy and greatly contribute to raising Vietnam’s prestigeand standing in the international arena, Phong said.
On behalf of the diplomats, Pham Sao Mai,Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Northeast Asia Department and Ambassador toChina, said overseas representative agencies of Vietnam always pay attention toinformation about HCM City and also believe in the city’s dynamism andcreativity.
HCM City holds huge potential for developing itsrelations with international partners to serve local development, he noted.
At the meeting, the diplomats learned about thepotential for cooperation between HCM City and the countries and territoriesthey are about to assume their posts.
So far, the city has set up friendship andcooperative ties with 54 foreign localities across the five continents. It hasalso had close cooperation with international organisations like the WorldBank, the Asian Development Bank and the German Development Bank (KfW).
In 2018, it attracted over 7 billion USD offoreign investment, accounting for 22 percent of the total foreign capitalpoured into Vietnam then. The city is currently home to 7,948 projects investedin by 106 countries and territories./.
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Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (standing) speaks at the meeting with the new heads of Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies for 2019-2022 on October 4 (Photo: VNA) 
