On the morning of October 14, Comrade Le Trung Kien, Member of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee, Head of the HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY, chaired and worked with the Gunma Provincial Government and Japanese enterprises led by Mr. Yamamoto Ichita, Governor of Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Also attending were representatives of leaders of a number of departments, branches, infrastructure businesses, and factories leasing enterprises in industrial parks and economic zones in the city.
Work scene.
Comrade Le Trung Kien, Head of HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY, Hai Phong spoke at the meeting.
Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Le Trung Kien, Head of HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY, welcomed the delegation to visit and work in Hai Phong. At the same time, he informed about the city's economic development situation and said that Hai Phong currently has 151 projects of Japanese investors with a total investment capital of 5,23 billion USD (accounting for 20,4% of the city's FDI capital). He introduced the city's outstanding advantages such as: Hai Phong has a modern and synchronous infrastructure of seaports, highways, railways, and airports, creating high international connectivity and integration; always focusing on training high-quality human resources and proposing policies to support universities in connecting with businesses, approving projects to support labor training, ensuring high-quality labor resources for investors. The city also promotes the development of social housing projects and issues a policy framework to support workers in purchasing social housing; as well as investing in social security projects, developing high-quality social facilities such as golf courses, hospitals, hotels, and schools. The city always accompanies, supports, regularly monitors and promptly resolves difficulties and obstacles for investors; transparent and open investment incentive policies; and a mechanism for quick administrative procedure settlement.
The Head of HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY said that in 2025, Hai Phong will develop a new economic zone in the South of the city with the orientation of a green, ecological economic zone, closely following international trends on ESG and the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions - Net zero along with outstanding preferential policies to welcome foreign investors, especially investors from Japan.
Leaders of HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY, Hai Phong and the delegation of Gunma Provincial Government and Japanese enterprises.
At the meeting, the Head of the HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY proposed a number of cooperation contents such as: Proposing the Gunma Provincial Government to join the Japanese Government and Japanese localities to continue supporting Hai Phong city in the fields of seaports, digital transformation, renewable energy, climate change response, etc. Hai Phong city wishes to promote cooperation with Gunma province and provincial enterprises in areas where the province is strong such as automobile manufacturing industry, transportation machinery manufacturing, electronics industry, high technology; expanding cooperation with the Gunma Provincial Government and provincial enterprises in the fields of finance, science and technology, human resource training. Proposing the Gunma Provincial Government to call on organizations, investors, provincial enterprises and provincial enterprises operating in Hai Phong to pay more attention to the issue of human resource training of the city; In particular, strengthen cooperation with universities, colleges and vocational schools in Hai Phong city to develop cooperation programs to train high-quality human resources and support the introduction of Japanese language teaching programs at all levels of education.
The Head of HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY wished the delegation a successful visit and work in Vietnam and Hai Phong city and achieved many good results; hoping that this working trip of the delegation will open up many opportunities for successful investment cooperation between the government and enterprises of the two localities in the coming time.
Mr. Yamamoto Ichita, Governor of Gunma Prefecture, spoke at the meeting.
Mr. Yamamoto Ichita, Governor of Gunma Prefecture, thanked the HAI PHONG ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY for the welcome; at the same time, he said that Gunma Prefecture is located in the Kanto region of Japan, one of the developed industrial production centers of Japan. Although Gunma Prefecture's population is only 18th out of 47, more than 1,9 million people (similar to Hai Phong City), the scale of industrial production of the province is 5th in Japan, famous for industries such as: automobile manufacturing, transportation machinery manufacturing, electronics industry, high technology. Mr. Yamamoto Ichita also shared the damage caused by storm No. 3 to Hai Phong City and hoped that the city would soon overcome the damage to return to normal.
Leaders of two localities exchanged souvenirs.
Mr. Yamamoto Ichita, Governor of Gunma Prefecture, said that the purpose of this working trip is to further promote investment cooperation between the two countries, research and survey the investment environment in Hai Phong city and hopes that the working trip will bring many meaningful results and open up opportunities for successful investment cooperation between the authorities and businesses of the two localities in many fields.
Source: Hai Phong city electronic information portal