VKBIA supports strengthening Da Nang – Gangwon cooperation
VOV.VN - The Vietnam-Korea Businessmen and Investment Association (VKBIA) stays ready to serve as a bridge to promote cooperation between the central city of Da Nang of Vietnam and the Special Autonomous Province of Gangwon of the Republic of Korea.
VKBIA chairman Tran Hai Linh was speaking at a meeting between the leadership of the Da Nang administration and a delegation of the Cultural and Social Committee, Council of the Special Autonomous Province of Gangwon, in Da Nang on January 9.
Linh assured that his association wants to strengthen friendly cooperation between Vietnam and the RoK in various fields, including those in which Da Nang has strengths and needs to attract strategic partners.
Nguyen Thi Anh Thi, vice chairwoman of the Da Nang City People’s Council, welcomed the VKBIA’s goodwill and thanked the association for promoting the signing of a tourism development cooperation agreement between the Da Nang Department of Tourism and the Gangwon Tourism Department in September 2023.
She introduced her guests on the city’s socio-economic development potential, and expected that the VKBIA would help attract more Korean investors into Da Nang, organize trade promotion activities, and popularize local tourist attractions among Korean people, as well as increasing local connections between the two sides.
In its development strategy, Thi said Da Nang considers information technology a spearhead industry, and a growth driver towards inclusive growth and sustainable development. She proposed that Korean localities, including Gangwon - one of the leading developed provinces, share experience and provide know-how in various high-tech fields such as semiconductors, information technology, high-tech industry, marine economy, while enhancing cooperation in culture, social affairs, tourism and labour dispatching.
According to the official, Da Nang is one of the three Vietnamese cities to pilot urban government organization while Gangwon has just been granted the special autonomous province status by the Korean government in mid-2023. The two localities she said can exchange and share experiences in managing and operating the government apparatus.
Jeong Jae Woong, chairman of the Cultural and Social Committee, Gangwon Special Autonomous Provincial Council, acknowledged Thi’s proposals and said Gangwon is ready to promote multi-faceted cooperation with Da Nang, as well as with other Vietnamese localities.
On this occasion, Thi respectfully extended an invitation to the VKBIA to attend the “Meet Da Nang 2024” conference to be held in the locality in the near future.
