In recent years, there have been a significant number of investments attracted to Can Tho province. The Can Tho Investment-Trade-Tourism Promotion Centre has been recognized for its significant role in the overall success of the investment promotion activities in the city.
Nguyen Khanh Tung, Director of centre, said: "In recent years, the centre has organized a lot of market research and investment promotion workshops in countries and regions such as France, Australia, South Korea, USA, Taiwan (China) and China. Especially, through visits to France in 2011, the leaders of Can Tho City have signed agreements with Nice City of France to create favourable conditions for trade exchanges and cooperation in some fields such as health, cultural education, trade and tourism."
It is noted that the market surveys and workshops have helped businesses in Can Tho establish business relations with businesses from different countries such as Australia, Taiwan, United States, South Korea, Japan, China and France. Many official visits of the leaders and businesses have been undertaken to Can Tho for market research.
Among the investment promotion activities, some of significance are the Investment Promotion Conference 2008, the Conference of Investment Promotion, Trade and Tourism 2009, the Investment and Development Conference of the Mekong Delta in Can Tho in 2010. The conference is a forum for domestic and foreign enterprises to seek opportunities for cooperation and promote the investment of the Mekong Delta in general, and Can Tho in particular. In particular, at the conferences, many MoUs have been signed by investors to show their interest in projects in the portfolio of the Mekong Delta area and of Can Tho.
In 2013, the establishment of the "one-stop shop'' centre has taken great efforts of Can Tho City in reforming administrative procedures, especially in the field of investment, land and construction. The "one-stop shop'' centre is located in the Can Tho Investment-Trade-Tourism Promotion Centre and assigned to coordinate with other agencies to resolve investment procedures of the investment projects outside industrial parks and export processing zones in Can Tho City. Accordingly, through the one-stop shop centre, investors and businesses could submit and receive the results for investment activities relating to the investment guidelines and surveys for the agreement on the cable connection.
Nguyen Khanh Tung said that to enhance the performance of investment promotion activities, the Can Tho Investment-Trade-Tourism Promotion Centre is working with the authorities of the city to review and edit the regulations on active support for business investment in Can Tho City. Besides, the centre regularly renews the contents and mechanism of promoting investment to create an active and effective program, focusing on promoting direct investment for each project and each potential investor, and enhancing investment activities in potential markets such as Japan and South Korea.
The centre also determines the goals and actual demands of the city to develop the core investment promotion activities. Besides, the centre also proactively promotes different types of investment, which focus on regular contacts with partners, businesses, national and international large corporations to introduce the business and investment environments of the city. Besides, the centre also cooperates with the Sai Gon New Port Corporation to use ports to meet the shipment demands of businesses.
Other activities relating to marketing and PR about the potentials and strengths of Can Tho City will be promoted with external information, new communication channels and online portals. Research activities related to market information, partners, foreign affairs policies of Vietnam, and periodic information will be strengthened. And the website for trade promotion activities will be improved to provide more useful information for investors and businesses.
In addition, the centre will foster trade promotion linkages among national and international agencies. The centre also enhances regular dialogues to remove difficulties for enterprises to more effectively facilitate their investment in the city.
Huong Giang
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