VCCI Promotes Experience Exchanges of Business Forums and Councils

VCCI, in cooperation with Saigon Invest Group, on March 27 hosted a meeting of representatives from business forums and business councils between Vietnam and foreign countries at Que Vo Industrial Park, Bac Ninh province, on the occasion of 5^th anniversary of these forums and councils. 

The meeting was addressed by VCCI Vice President Doan Duy Khuong, Mr. Dang Thanh Tam, President of the Vietnam-Japan Business Forum and President of Saigon Invest Group, Mr. Tran Van Tuy, Chairman of Bac Ninh People’s Committee.

 

It heard valuable ideas and initiatives from representatives from the Vietnam-Africa Business Forum, Vietnam-China Business Forum, Vietnam-Japan Business Forum, Vietnam-EU Business Forum, APEC Business Advisory Council, ASEAN Business Advisory Council and Vietnam-Russia Business Council.

 

According to Mr. Doan Duy Khuong, the meeting will create good opportunities for the forums and councils to exchange views and experience with the aim of promoting the cooperation and expanding business relations between Vietnamese enterprises and foreign partners in each forum and council.    

He highlighted the important role and good results of these forums and councils since they became operational in promoting trade and investment relations between Vietnam and the rest of the world. These international cooperation programs are being operated in the model of private public partnership (PPP) in which leaders of the forums and councils are also leaders of enterprises, and they are responsible for connecting between the Government and local enterprises. PPP is indispensable for trade and investment promotion activities in the years to come, Mr. Khuong affirmed.

Mr. Phuong Huu Viet, President of the Vietnam-Russia Business Council, recommended Vietnamese enterprises to focus on the Russian market because of a very good, traditional cooperation relation between the two countries, large population, and 5^th largest economy in the world. He remarked the potential sectors for Vietnamese enterprises to expand cooperation with Russian partners, including basic sciences, seafood, garment and textile, engineering, minerals, and others. 

According to Mr. Le Viet Thao, President of the Vietnam-Africa Business Forum, the forum was newly set up and the market is prospective and very potential for Vietnamese enterprises. Some Vietnamese companies have entered the market with the products of agricultural items, medicines and medical equipment, garment and textile products, construction materials, and other consumer goods. 

According to Mr. Dang Thanh Tam, President of the Vietnam-Japan Business Forum and President of Saigon Invest Group, these forums and councils have recently operated effectively in connecting business opportunities, but needed to try further efforts to support the business community in 2009 to deal with bad impacts of the global economic downturn. 

Kinh Bac City Corp. in Bac Ninh province, set up in 2002, is an affiliate of Saigon Invest Group. It is now running many real estate projects in the North of Vietnam. Especially, Que Vo industrial park, with total area of 640 hectares, has become a typical IP of Vietnam in which the first phase of 340 hectares is home to around 50 enterprises, mainly from Japan and Taiwan.