Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen and Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining at the online meeting. (Photo:VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City and China’s Shanghai city held a virtual meeting on May 18 to discuss ways to further promote bilateral cooperation.
Speaking at the event, Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen said that the Party Committee, administration and people of Ho Chi Minh City always attach great importance to maintaining and developing friendship and comprehensive cooperation with the Chinese Party, State, and people.
The city is ready to coordinate with Shanghai to disseminate and well implement the agreements and common perceptions between Vietnam and China, contributing to the development of their Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership.
Nen said that HCM City and Shanghai share many similarities and hold great potential and favourable conditions to raise their partnership to new heights.
He hopes the leaders of the two localities will increase contact and exchanges in flexible and appropriate forms, especially visits. He also expects more exchanges and experience sharing among agencies at all levels as well as people-to-people exchanges.
Expressing his impression at the development model of Shanghai city, Ho Chi Minh City’s leader called for further cooperation between the two localities in fields of Shanghai's strength such as economy, finance, trade, logistics, and technology.
For his part, Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining congratulated HCM City on its achievements in the past time and affirmed that during the course of their 29-year twin relations, the two localities have gained positive achievements in various fields.
The Chinese official also affirmed that Shanghai wishes to further tighten cooperation in such areas as trade, finance, and banking.
He expects the two sides to further optimise their advantages to promote cooperation in green and smart city development following the world’s common development trend and the development orientation of each country.
Shanghai city vows to soon start cooperation and exchange projects to improve staff qualifications for Ho Chi Minh City and wants to invite the city’s businesses to join the China International Import Expo to be held in Shanghai in November 2023, where they can introduce high-quality products to Chinese consumers./.
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The outcomes of Party General Secretary To Lam's visit will serve as a driving force and source of inspiration for the two countries to inherit, promote, and elevate their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, contributing to the national construction and development cause in each country, and to peace, cooperation, and development in the region and the world.
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The ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) attaches great importance to the friendship, solidarity, and comradeship with the Communist Party of Vietnam, and voiced her Party’s wish to further deepen and expand relations between the two sides for the benefit of the Vietnamese and Angolan people.
Vietnam pledges to do its utmost to build an ASEAN of solidarity, consensus, and unity in diversity, and to foster a fast and sustainable development path for ASEAN, grounded in science, technology, and innovation, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
Party General Secretary To Lam called on the criminal police force to accelerate the application of science, technology, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation in criminal investigation tasks such as crime prevention, detection, tracking and verification, ensuring that no area remains out of their reach.
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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that the emulation and commendation work is a vital driver, fostering patriotism, dedication, and collective momentum in the run-up to the 11th National Patriotic Emulation Congress, Party congresses at all levels, and the 14th National Party Congress.
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Politburo member, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 8 attended the first congress of the Party Organisation of Tay Ho ward of Hanoi for the 2025–2030 term, during which he called for fresh momentum to turn the ward into a model that takes the lead in all fields.
The size of the economy increased from over 5 billion USD in 1986 to over 476 billion USD by 2024, making Vietnam the fourth-largest economy in Southeast Asia and the 34th largest in the world.
Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen and Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining at the online meeting. (Photo:VNA) 
