On the morning of November 24th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinated with the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (AmCham Vietnam) to organize an online conference "Meet Europe 2021: Vietnam - EU Partnership after Covid-19 pandemic and the launching ceremony of Eurocham White book 2021”. Attending the conference was: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung; Mr. Giorgio Aliberti - Ambassador, Head of Delegation of the European Union in Vietnam; Mr. Alain Cany - Chairman of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham). At Khanh Hoa Bridge, Mr. Le Huu Hoang - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, together with leaders of departments, agencies, and a number of businesses in the province attended the conference.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, Governor of the State Bank Nguyen Thi Hong thanked the European Union (EU), member countries and EuroCham for the timely support with more than 15 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine as well as the program "Revive the breath" launched by EuroCham for Vietnam. The Governor emphasized that the EU is one of the leading partners in development cooperation, the 5th largest trading partner, the 6th largest investor of Vietnam and an important milestone in economic cooperation between the two countries. The main party is the EVFTA Free Trade Agreement, effective from August 1, 2020, opening up great opportunities for businesses of both sides. The Vietnamese government will continue to create all conditions for EuroCham and its members to invest in the fields which Vietnam is giving priority and having many special incentives such as high technology, information technology, supplementary industries, smart agriculture, environmental protection, renewable energy, infrastructure construction and projects serving social security, training high-quality human resources, applying advanced effective management science; promote research - development, innovation...
At the conference, after the signing ceremony of understanding memorandum between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and EuroCham and the launch of the Eurocham White Book 2021, the delegates focused on policy dialogue on improving the quality and responsibility for the investment environment, business, in which is interested in public health care issues in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic; listen and share recommendations on trade and services for sustainable development and economic recovery; development prospects of the European community in Vietnam after Covid-19; trade and investment cooperation opportunities of Vietnamese localities with European partners…
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Mr. Le Huu Hoang - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee at the online conference "Meet Europe".
Speaking at the conference, Mr. Le Huu Hoang affirmed that provincial leaders, branches and levels will always create the most favorable conditions, always accompany investors to remove difficulties and obstacles especially in terms of administrative procedures, with the hope that European investors, as well as all investors will achieve success in Khanh Hoa. Therefore, Khanh Hoa province will together with European partners, strengthen the organization of conferences, seminars, meetings and work between agencies and businesses of the two sides in the fields where the two sides have strengths and cooperation needs. On this occasion, Khanh Hoa province also asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador and EuroCham to support and introduce experienced and potential investors in the fields of: High-tech industry, ports, logistics services, energy industry; support sending information about the European market, the demand for aquatic products and agricultural products in European countries; as well as supporting the promotion and introduction of key products, OCOP products of Khanh Hoa province, especially aquatic products, bird's nests, textiles, coffee, local agricultural products... to distribution channels, supermarket systems of the European market, especially France, Germany, the Netherlands...
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* Europe is the export market accounting for a large proportion of Khanh Hoa province with export turnover of goods in 2020 reaching 351 million USD, accounting for 26.14% of the province's export turnover of goods, mainly seafood. In addition, there are forest products, handicrafts, agricultural products... Import turnover from the European market in 2020 of Khanh Hoa province reached 18.05 million USD, accounting for 2.45% Import turnover of the whole province, mainly raw materials for production, machinery and equipment. In terms of investment, accumulated by 2021, Khanh Hoa province has attracted 109 foreign-invested projects with a total registered capital of more than 3.6 billion USD, of which 17 FDI projects are in the tourism service sector of European investors with a total registered investment capital of 324.32 million USD.
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