Mai, who is also a member of the Party Central Committee and Standing Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, made the remark during a meeting on April 9 with Bounchom Ubonpaseuth, a member of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee, Secretary of the LPRP Committee of Savannakhet, and Governor of the province – one of the three Lao units paired with Ho Chi Minh City.
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Bounchom Ubonpaseuth (right), Secretary of the LPRP Committee of Savannakhet and Governor of the Lao province, receives Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Phan Van Mai on April 9. |
Ubonpaseuth highly valued the close cooperation in multiple spheres between the two localities and thanked Ho Chi Minh City for assisting his province to build a teleconference room and coordinating to successfully hold activities of the Vietnam - Laos and Laos - Vietnam Solidarity and Friendship Year 2022.
He introduced the five relic sites of leaders in Savannakhet, including the one of late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh, noting that it holds great significance and his province hopes to develop it into a tourism area to help educate visitors on the two countries’ relations.
Savannakhet hopes to organize a conference on post-pandemic investment, trade and tourism cooperation, he said, adding that located on the East - West Corridor linking Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand and boasting tourism advantages, it is calling for investment to tourism infrastructure and services.
The host official also highly valued Ho Chi Minh City’s cooperation program on human resources training and scholarships for Savannakhet students.
At the meeting, Mai offered Ho Chi Minh City leaders’ greetings on the traditional New Year festival of Laos.
Both host and guest agreed to hold an investment, trade, and tourism conference between Ho Chi Minh City and Savannakhet as well as other Lao localities at an early date.
They also agreed to expand existing joint programs and add three cooperation contents, namely restoring historical relic sites in tandem with boosting cultural tourism; health care, including manpower training, preventive medicine management, and hospital and grassroots healthcare experience sharing; and agricultural development.
Source: VNA