HCM City seeks RoK locality’ support for start-ups
Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has suggested Incheon city of the RoK help the Vietnamese city set up a start-ups support centre.
Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (R) receives Chairman of Incheon Metropolitan City Council Jegal Won-young (Source: VNA)
HCM City(VNA) – Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City PartyCommittee Nguyen Thien Nhan has suggested Incheon city of the Republic of Korea(RoK) help the Vietnamese city set up a start-ups support centre, towards promotingscientific and economic exchange.
Talking to visiting Chairman of Incheon Metropolitan City Council Jegal Won-young at a meeting on July 18, SecretaryNhan said the centre would also support RoK citizens and businesses in HCMCity. Hehoped the RoK locality will enhance experience sharing with HCM City inaviation management, urban transport and creative research activities.
HCM City’s Party chief proposed holding annual meetings and exchanges betweenthe two localities to share experience in management and investment cooperation,expressing his belief that Vietnam-RoK relations and ties between HCM City andIncheon will improve.
For his part, Jegal Won-young praisedthe economic development of Vietnam and HCM City in particular, and predicted thatVietnam will always develop rapidly.
More and more RoK enterprises have decided to invest in Vietnam, he added.
Incheon is willing to share experience with HCM City in areas such as theenvironment, transport, urban development, education and start-ups, heaffirmed.
He also hoped links between the two cities will continue to be enhancedeffectively, contributing to bolstering RoK-Vietnam cooperative ties.
The RoK is Vietnam's largest foreign investor, second largest officialdevelopment assistance provider and third biggest trade partner.
HCM City has established cooperative friendships with five localities of theRoK.
As many as 80,000 RoK citizens live in HCM city, while about 2,000 RoK firms operatein the southern economic hub.-VNA
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Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (R) receives Chairman of Incheon Metropolitan City Council Jegal Won-young (Source: VNA) 
