President visits RoK Gyeonggi Province, announces Vietnam Day in Gwangju
WVR/VNA - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked leaders of the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Gyeonggi province to encourage local enterprises to expand their scale and diversify investment and business in Vietnam, especially in the fields of information technology, construction and development of satellite urban areas, commercial and logistics centres, and smart city development.
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| President Nguyen Xuan Phuc meets Gyeonggi Governor Kim Dong-yeon. (Photo: WVR/Hong Nguyen) |
On December 6, the President made the suggestion during the trip to Gyeonggi province, which is just one hour drive from RoK’s capital of Seoul, as part of his state visit to the East Asian country.
The Vietnamese leader expressed his pleasure at visiting Gwangju city, the second hometown of about 3,000 Vietnamese people who have received much attention and support from the local government. There are 37,000 Vietnamese living in Gyeonggi province.
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| President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Gyeonggi Governor Kim Dong-yeon and other delegates took a photo at the event. (Photo: WVR/Nguyen Hong) |
The President hoped that the Governor of Gyeonggi province and Mayor of Gwangju city will continue to provide favourable conditions and effective support for Vietnamese people living there, especially Vietnamese brides.
Gyeonggi is twinned with Ho Chi Minh City and Nghe An province. It has multiple cooperation deals in the fields of labour, handicrafts and ceramics with localities and enterprises of Vietnam.
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| President Nguyen Xuan Phuc gives a speech at the ceremony to announce Vietnam Day in Gwangju. (Photo: WVR/Hong Nguyen) |
President Phuc said that Vietnam also has many localities and enterprises with long-standing reputations in the ceramics industry and their products are exported around the world, adding that this is the foundation for Gyeonggi to promote cooperation in the coming time.
The two sides can also strengthen collaboration in the fields of labour, education and training and tourism - one of Vietnam's strengths, he said.
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| Gyeonggi Governor Kim Dong-yeon speaks at the ceremony to announce Vietnam Day in Gwangju. (Photo: WVR/Hong Nguyen) |
He suggested the province share experiences with Vietnamese localities in administrative management, development planning for tourism, coordination on building tourism products and implementing joint tourism promotions.
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| President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Gwangju Mayor Bang Se-hwan at the ceremony announcing December 6 as the annual Vietnam Day of Gwangju city. (Photo: WVR/Hong Nguyen) |
The Vietnamese leader also attended a ceremony to announce Vietnam Day of Gwangju, visit the Vietnamese cultural space in the city and attend an art programme to celebrate 30 years of diplomacy between Vietnam and the RoK.
The President said that the organisation of Vietnam Day in Gwangju city on December 6 every year will enable the peoples of the two countries to have a better understanding of each other and open up new opportunities for cooperation and exchange between people and businesses.
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| President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and the delegation visited Vietnamese Cultural Space and attended an art performance program to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and RoK. (Photo: WVR/Hong Nguyen) |
On the evening of the same day, President Phuc and his entourage left Gyeonggi province and travelled to Seoul Military Airport to return to Vietnam, concluding the state visit to the RoK.
(Source: WVR/VNA)
