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Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (second from right) and former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide (second from left) at the meeting on January 11 (Photo: VNA) |
Highlighting the great potential for cooperation between HCMC and Japan, Nen talked about the city’s challenges in the development process, saying that its infrastructure, especially transport infrastructure, has yet to meet socio-economic development requirements.
The city’s Metro Line No. 1 project is a symbol of Vietnam-Japan relations, Nen said, adding that it is expected to become a bright spot and create trust among people so as to effectively carry out other metro projects, thus improving traffic matters in HCMC.
He took this occasion to thank the Japanese government and people for their timely assistance to Vietnam and HCMC as well during the hardest times of the Covid-19 pandemic, thus helping the city control the pandemic and reaped important socio-economic achievements in 2022.
Nen also expressed his hope that Suga, in his capacity as advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance and with his prestige and dedication, would continue contributing to the development of relations between Vietnam and Japan as well as between HCMC and Japanese localities and partners.
Suga expressed his impression for HCMC’s strong development and thanked the city’s leaders for creating favorable conditions for Japanese enterprises which are investing and doing business there.
He spoke highly of cooperative ties between HCMC and Japanese localities and proposed the city’s leaders to accelerate the deployment of signed projects and the successful organization of the Japan-Vietnam Festival in HCMC next month, thereby promoting people-to-people exchanges between the two countries and contributing to the development of the bilateral relations.
