Highlighting great potential for cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City and Japan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Van 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.

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Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (right) and former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide at the meeting on January 11

The city’s Metro Line No.1 project is a symbol of Vietnam - Japan relations, Nguyen Van 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 Ho Chi Minh City.

He took this occasion to thank the Japanese government and people for their timely assistance to Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City 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.

Nguyen Van 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 Ho Chi Minh City and Japanese localities and partners.

Suga expressed his impression for Ho Chi Minh City’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 Ho Chi Minh City and Japanese localities and proposed the city’s leaders to accelerate the deployment of signed projects and successful organization of Japan - Vietnam Festival in Ho Chi Minh City next month, thereby promoting people-to-people exchanges between the two countries and contributing to the development of the bilateral relations.

Source: VNA