France’s second largest region is accelerating its multi-faceted
relations with Vietnam’s southern economic hub.
Bernard Soulage, vice president
of the Rhone-Alpes council, led a mission to Ho Chi Minh City last week to
concretise a memorandum of understanding for 2011-2014 cooperation between the
two sides.
He said Rhone-Alpes was set to
boost cooperation ties with the city in renewable energy, tourism, food
processing, biotechnology, education, cultural exchanges, as well as in trade
and investment, for the period.
Soulage and other Rhone-Alpes
representatives signed some agreements on further cooperation with Ho Chi Minh
City vice chairman Nguyen Huu Tin. Tin told them that the metropolis was eager
to see the relationship cooperation between the two sides flourish.
One of the deals is to further
develop PADDI, a centre on urban studies established in Vietnam in 2006, to
carry out assistance programmes for the city. Meanwhile, the Lyon City-based
ENTPE school for public transport is working with the Ho Chi Minh City Department
of Transport to identify subjects for training human resources for the latter.
Soulage said France and Vietnam
would celebrate the 40th anniversary of their diplomatic ties in 2013 with a
series of events in both countries, with some Rhone-Alpes contributions. As one
of them, Lyon City of Rhone-Alpes would carry out a lighting project to
highlight the Ho Chi Minh City Post Office next to the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Lyon had also realised some lighting projects in Ho Chi Minh City.
Jean-Michael Daclin, vice
chairman of Lyon City’s council, led a French business delegation to Ho Chi
Minh City during the Soulage mission. Daclin introduced Lyon’s trade and
investment advantages to Vietnamese potential partners.
France is one of the top 10
investors in Ho Chi Minh City with more than 120 investment projects, with
combined capital of $760 million.
Rhone-Alpes was home to eight
provinces with a population of about six million in all, said Soulage.
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