In 2023, the export turnover of the Mekong Delta will be 68 billion USD, of which Can Tho will be the leading export turnover. Every year, Can Tho exports 2.2 billion USD, of which 30% is revenue from rice exports.
Mr. Tran Viet Truong, Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee, shared that Can Tho has an important strategic position in the Mekong Delta. In addition to exporting rice, Can Tho also plays an important role in intra-regional and international transportation, including waterway, road and air transportation systems.
The development of the logistics system in Can Tho will contribute to promoting investment attraction of the locality and the Mekong Delta region. In particular, in the near future, Can Tho will expand the airport into a large international airport with 10-15 million passengers/year and more than 10 million tons of cargo/year, which will certainly become a place to attract more investment capital and modern, advanced technology from domestic and foreign investors.
The Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City stated that if Can Tho has the strength of being a regional center, Thu Duc City is the center of the Southeast region with a synchronously invested and developed transportation system, convenient for connecting and cooperating in economic development with neighboring provinces; Thanh Hoa province has a very favorable location for trading goods, economic and social infrastructure is being increasingly invested in, especially in transportation infrastructure, with all types including: roads, North-South railway; waterway transportation system, Tho Xuan Airport with a modern terminal, capacity of 1 million passengers/year, ensuring conditions to become an international airport;...
Therefore, today's conference is an opportunity to promote the good image and safe and effective investment environment of localities to promote connectivity, investment, trade and tourism to partners, investors and businesses.
“Connecting and cooperating for mutual development” has been identified as one of the important keys to success and sustainable development, to be able to utilize and maximize the potential advantages of all parties, and to achieve the set goals with the highest efficiency. To develop sustainably, we need cooperation between localities, cooperation between subjects in the production, processing and distribution chain; that is also the highest goal of today's conference," said Mr. Tran Viet Truong.
Mr. Nguyen Bach Hoang Phung, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City highly appreciated the role, potential and strengths of Can Tho City. In order to connect more closely with Can Tho in particular and the whole country in general in the integration period, Mr. Nguyen Bach Hoang Phung informed that Thu Duc has implemented the smart urban and digital transformation project, focusing on forming and developing 11 urban areas based on the foundation of science, technology and innovation, which is a condition for Thu Duc to gradually become a smart city, the "nucleus" to promote economic development of Ho Chi Minh City and the key economic region of the South:
"Today's Investment and Trade Promotion Conference in Can Tho is an important event, aiming to strengthen the development cooperation relationship between Can Tho City, Thanh Hoa Province and Thu Duc City in the fields of trade, services, technology, education, logistics, smart urban development... This is an opportunity for us to share experiences, seek new directions and develop together more strongly in the coming time. From morning until now, through statistics, Thu Duc City enterprises have also reported that some enterprises have learned and connected with each other, this is really a good sign", said Mr. Nguyen Bach Hoang Phung.
Mr. Cao Tien Doan, Chairman of Thanh Hoa Province Business Association affirmed that the conference is a place to connect distributors, purchasing units, and key units of Thu Duc City, Thanh Hoa Province with the strong products of Can Tho City such as: agricultural products, processed agricultural products, seafood, rice;... From there, businesses can exchange, find partners, and expand the market.
"In the face of increasingly high development requirements of the market economy, the diversification and multilateralization of investment cooperation relations pose a need for trade and connection between Associations across the country. With diverse and regularly implemented activities, organizations and Associations will create a healthy playground for businesses and entrepreneurs to exchange, meet, and learn experiences in building, operating and developing businesses in a very sustainable way," Mr. Cao Tien Doan shared.
Within the framework of the Conference, 220 enterprises from 3 localities also visited and learned practical experience at the facilities of 2-3 typical enterprises in Can Tho, and surveyed actual investment calling projects.
Ms. To Thi Cam Nhung, manager of Nghi Nghi enterprise specializing in producing food from sour star fruit in Can Tho city - one of 70 booths displaying products at the conference - expressed: "Through today's session, I have approached many distributors, such as the Investment Promotion Center of Thu Duc city, Thanh Hoa province enterprises who came to learn about the product, try it out and the level of customer satisfaction is very high. I feel very excited, giving me more motivation to invest more in the product".
Organizing regular promotion conferences has created a channel connecting distributors, purchasing units, and focal units between provinces/cities across the country, thereby bringing agricultural and aquatic products and rice of enterprises closer to domestic and international customers; at the same time, proposing a method to gradually solve the difficult problem of product output that has existed for many years in our country.
Source: https://vov.vn/kinh-te/hoi-nghi-xuc-tien-dau-tu-thuong-mai-can-tho-thu-duc-thanh-hoa-post1114880.vov
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