A business information portal was launched on December 23 with a view to helping address difficulties faced by enterprises, assisting policymaking, and proposing support measures for the development of businesses.
The business information portal was launched by the Agency for Enterprise Development and the German Agency for International Cooperation (Screenshot photo)
Hanoi (VNA) – A businessinformation portal was launched on December 23 with a view to helping addressdifficulties faced by enterprises, assisting policymaking, and proposing support measuresfor the development of businesses.
The portal, at , was launched by theAgency for Enterprise Development (AED) under the Ministry of Planning andInvestment and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).
AED Director Le Manh Hung said theinformation explosion generates both opportunities and challenges and open upnew business chances for enterprises. Given this, it is an urgent need todevelop a multidimensional, diverse, timely, and precise information channelconnecting the State with businesses, as well as businesses with one another.
The portalwill also link Vietnamese businesses with foreign partners, show the country’sactiveness in operating ASEAN ACCESS - a portal connecting small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in ASEAN, and help domestic firms stretchtheir reach to other regions around the globe, he added.
Sebastian Paust, First Counsellor andhead of the development cooperation division at the German Embassy in Vietnam,said the portal is a comprehensive and friendly platform basing on which SMEs,State-owned firms, and the business community at large can access important informationand data, along with support services.
Paust noted by applying moderntechnology, the highly open portal is frequently updated to meet businesses’demand for all-round and precise information about support policies.
He also considered the launch as atimely and practical move by the Vietnamese Government to assist SMEs in linewith the 2018 Law on Support for SMEs./.
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The business information portal was launched by the Agency for Enterprise Development and the German Agency for International Cooperation (Screenshot photo) 
