Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh left Tokyo on Thursday (local time), concluding his official visit to Japan at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. Earlier the same day, Prime Minister Chinh attended the Vietnam-Japan Investment Promotion Conference. In his address, Prime Minister Chinh thanked Japanese businesses for sharing difficulties and working with Vietnam in the fight against COVID-19 and praised them for expanding their investment in the country. He called on investors to participate more and for a longer time in Vietnam.
Prime Minister Chinh said, ‘We ensure investors will have favorable policies and institutions which have been very effective in the past. I’m confident that investors in Vietnam can be assured of their security, political stability, and a favorable investment environment. We are implementing three strategic breakthroughs. First, we will focus on fine-tuning our institutions to serve more extensive integration and international standards. We also will focus on human resource training and streamlining administrative procedures to reduce input costs of businesses. Improving hard and soft infrastructure is of our particular concern.’
On this occasion, the Prime Minister witnessed the exchange of more than 40 cooperative agreements between ministries, sectors, localities, and businesses of Vietnam and Japan.
The same day, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and representatives of Japanese economic groups.
PM Chinh asked Suga to continue backing and promoting bilateral relations to a new height, especially in fields where the two sides have potential and demand. This includes the diversification of supply chains, supporting industry development, innovation, digital transformation and information technology development, among others.
The Prime Minister also received the President of the Vietnam-Japan Economic Committee, the Chairman of the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro), the Minister of Economics, Trade and Industry, Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture Kuroiwa Yuji, the Nippon Foundation President, and Tatsufumi Sakai – President and CEO of the Mizuho Financial Group.
Source: VOV5