Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) speaks at Waikato University (Photo: VNA) Auckland (VNA) – Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc visited Waikato University, a leading educational facility in theworld, on March 14 morning (local time) before wrapping up his official visitto New Zealand.
The PM was greeted with the traditional Maorigreeting and talked with students at the university where many leaders of NewZealand studied at, including Prime Minister Jacinda Adern.
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He highlighted the growing relations betweenVietnam and New Zealand in various fields such as economics, trade, investment,security, defense, and education since they established diplomatic ties in1975.
At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)Economic Leaders’ Week 2017 in Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang, the twocountries worked actively to push the negotiation of the Comprehensive andProgressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a leading freetrade pact in the region that balance interests of the involved parties.
Vietnam and New Zealand shared a lot ofviewpoints on the regional situation, including the freedom of navigation,aviation and trade in the East Sea.
The PM noted that more than 3,000 Vietnamesestudents in New Zealand together with the overseas Vietnamese community areserving as an important bridge to boost the bilateral friendship andcooperation.
He underlined the outcomes of his talks with PMJacinda Adern, saying the two countries agreed to promote the bilateralcomprehensive partnership and soon elevate their relations to a strategicpartnership with education being an important pillar.
PM Phuc also introduced the socio-economicsituation in Vietnam to the students at Waikato University.
Vietnam has risen to become a middle-incomecountry since 2010, he said, adding that Vietnam is one of the leadingexporters of agro-fishery products in the world.
He told the Waikato students that the coffeethey drink everyday could be originated from the coffee beans planted in thered soil of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and many fruits like mangoes,dragon fruits, rambutans, and lychees sold in the market are Vietnamesetropical specialties.
The PM invited the Waikato students to visitVietnam - a country with rich culture, a thousand-year history, and the learningtradition.
PM Phuc affirmed that with young people and teenagersaccounting for over 40 percent of the population, Vietnam defines developinghigh-quality human resources as one of the three strategic breakthroughs tobecome a modern industrial country in the future. Therefore, it will step upcooperation in education to learn from the training models with highapplicability like the University of Waikato so as to address its own problems.
It is a fact that the graduate and post-graduatetraining cooperation models between the University of Waikato and the Hanoi LawUniversity and the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City are provingfruitful.
At the exchange, he fielded questions aboutVietnam’s policy to attract and use talents, especially overseas Vietnamesestudents with excellent performance. He also answered queries about thedevelopment prospect of Vietnam-New Zealand relations after the CPTPP takeseffect.
The leader also welcomed the students’ interestin Industry 4.0, adding that Vietnam has made concrete policies to capitaliseon achievements of Industry 4.0 to develop its economy.
On this occasion, he witnessed the signing ofcooperation documents between the University of Waikato and the Vietnam SocialSecurity and some leading universities of Vietnam.
He highlighted the growing relations betweenVietnam and New Zealand in various fields such as economics, trade, investment,security, defense, and education since they established diplomatic ties in1975.
At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)Economic Leaders’ Week 2017 in Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang, the twocountries worked actively to push the negotiation of the Comprehensive andProgressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a leading freetrade pact in the region that balance interests of the involved parties.
Vietnam and New Zealand shared a lot ofviewpoints on the regional situation, including the freedom of navigation,aviation and trade in the East Sea.
The PM noted that more than 3,000 Vietnamesestudents in New Zealand together with the overseas Vietnamese community areserving as an important bridge to boost the bilateral friendship andcooperation.
He underlined the outcomes of his talks with PMJacinda Adern, saying the two countries agreed to promote the bilateralcomprehensive partnership and soon elevate their relations to a strategicpartnership with education being an important pillar.
PM Phuc also introduced the socio-economicsituation in Vietnam to the students at Waikato University.
Vietnam has risen to become a middle-incomecountry since 2010, he said, adding that Vietnam is one of the leadingexporters of agro-fishery products in the world.
He told the Waikato students that the coffeethey drink everyday could be originated from the coffee beans planted in thered soil of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and many fruits like mangoes,dragon fruits, rambutans, and lychees sold in the market are Vietnamesetropical specialties.
The PM invited the Waikato students to visitVietnam - a country with rich culture, a thousand-year history, and the learningtradition.
PM Phuc affirmed that with young people and teenagersaccounting for over 40 percent of the population, Vietnam defines developinghigh-quality human resources as one of the three strategic breakthroughs tobecome a modern industrial country in the future. Therefore, it will step upcooperation in education to learn from the training models with highapplicability like the University of Waikato so as to address its own problems.
It is a fact that the graduate and post-graduatetraining cooperation models between the University of Waikato and the Hanoi LawUniversity and the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City are provingfruitful.
At the exchange, he fielded questions aboutVietnam’s policy to attract and use talents, especially overseas Vietnamesestudents with excellent performance. He also answered queries about thedevelopment prospect of Vietnam-New Zealand relations after the CPTPP takeseffect.
The leader also welcomed the students’ interestin Industry 4.0, adding that Vietnam has made concrete policies to capitaliseon achievements of Industry 4.0 to develop its economy.
On this occasion, he witnessed the signing ofcooperation documents between the University of Waikato and the Vietnam SocialSecurity and some leading universities of Vietnam.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (front, first) visits Waikato University (Photo: VNA) Forty Vietnamese students and 26 graduate onesare studying at the Waikato University, mainly in the majors of economics andeducation.
The university has training cooperationagreements with the Foreign Education Department of Vietnam’s Ministry ofEducation and Training, People’s Security Academy of Vietnam’s Ministry ofPublic Security, and Hanoi Law University.
Later on March 14 (local time), PM Phuc, hisspouse and the high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Auckland, wrapping up theofficial visit to New Zealand at the invitation of PM Jacinda Ardern.
During the three-day trip, PM Phuc had talkswith PM Jacinda Ardern and witnessed the signing of cooperation documents. Heheld a meeting with Speaker of the House of Representatives Trevor Mallard andphone talks with Governor-General of New Zealand Dame Patsy Reddy. He also metwith Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff, attended the Vietnam-New Zealand BusinessForum, and received some major businesses of New Zealand. The PM visited thePlant and Food Research of New Zealand and met with students of the Universityof Waikato and the Auckland University of Technology and Vietnamese people inthe country.
At the talks, the two sides agreed onorientations for intensifying the Vietnam-New Zealand comprehensivepartnership. They agreed to promote many trade promotion measures, includingcreating favourable conditions for agricultural and aquatic products, so as toraise bilateral trade to 1.7 billion – 2 billion USD in 2020.
The PMs concurred in increasing the number ofVietnamese students in New Zealand to 30 percent in 2020 through studentexchanges, partnering programmes between universities, and other cooperationactivities.-VNA
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