On the afternoon of November 25, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Mr. Borje Ekholm, President and CEO of Ericsson Group (Sweden), who is on a working visit to Vietnam.
At the meeting, Ericsson leaders introduced the group's capabilities; discussed ways to support Vietnam in accelerating the national digital transformation process; and made some recommendations on digital technology.
Welcoming the Ericsson Chairman to visit Vietnam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was pleased with the positive development of the Vietnam-Sweden relationship, especially in politics and diplomacy, development aid (to date about 3 billion USD), and annual bilateral trade of over 1 billion USD.
The Prime Minister said that Vietnam wishes to bring its relations with Sweden to a higher level, more substantive and effective. Agencies of the two countries are actively coordinating to exploit the full potential of the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), promoting the adoption of the Vietnam-EU Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA); believing that, through this visit to Vietnam, the Ericsson Chairman will have in-depth and comprehensive assessments, which will serve as a basis for the Group's investment and business decisions in the coming time.
The Prime Minister welcomed and highly appreciated the Group's development plans in Vietnam, especially in providing solutions for developing digital infrastructure in Vietnam; promoting national digital transformation and building a digital government.
Stating that Vietnam identifies digital transformation as an objective requirement, a strategic choice, a top priority, a new growth driver, and a need for shortcuts, and that Vietnam has a young population with good mathematical abilities, the Prime Minister suggested that Ericsson promote cooperation with Vietnam, not only expanding trade but also promoting in-depth, strategic, long-term cooperation, focusing on research and development, building a research and development center in Vietnam, promoting technology transfer; developing digital infrastructure, promoting artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, building data centers; cooperating and supporting the development of 5G, 6G technology, developing satellite Internet instead of fiber optic Internet; training human resources; sharing experiences, providing policy advice; supporting Vietnamese corporations and partners to participate in the global supply chain.
Emphasizing the importance of time, intelligence and timely decisiveness to successfully implement the work, the Prime Minister said that Vietnam wants to exploit outer space, underground space, and sea space, promoting innovation, creativity and integration. Vietnam wishes and is ready to have a long-term strategic cooperation with Ericsson. Ericsson can turn Vietnam into a base for cooperation and investment and a pilot site to implement new ideas, cooperate and compete fairly with other large corporations.
In the spirit of “harmonized benefits, shared risks”, listening and understanding, sharing vision and action, working together, enjoying together, winning together and developing together, the Prime Minister suggested that Ericsson continue to exchange with Vietnamese agencies and partner enterprises. He personally is also willing to continue to exchange with Ericsson to promote deeper, broader, stronger, more drastic and more effective cooperation, to implement specific projects and tasks in the coming time in the fastest and most effective way, contributing to bringing the Vietnam-Sweden relationship to a new height.
The Prime Minister said that to promote digital transformation, the Vietnamese Government is implementing many breakthrough programs and policies, including proactively and actively perfecting many legal documents to remove difficulties and create a favorable environment for the digital transformation process; investing in and modernizing digital infrastructure, prioritizing the development of digital data, and actively training and developing high-quality human resources for the digital industry.
Highly agreeing with the Prime Minister's statements, the President of Ericsson affirmed that the Vietnamese market is very important with great development potential, saying that he has visited Vietnam many times in recent years, this year alone, this is the second time. Emphasizing that 5G and 6G technologies with great potential play an important role in the digitalization process and highly appreciating Viettel's successful deployment of the 5G network in a short time, he believes that Vietnam is on the right track and will be a leading country in the digital economy. Along with countries like India, Vietnam can become a locomotive for the latest technologies.
He said that Ericsson will continue to cooperate with Vietnam, in particular, Ericsson is willing to cooperate in developing a research and development center in Vietnam to utilize its capacity to create differences, new values, apply new technology solutions, and then export to other countries.
According to him, Ericsson's decisions are made based on infrastructure and human resources capabilities, and Ericsson wants to choose Vietnam because it sees the Vietnamese government's commitment to digitalization, Vietnamese businesses have aspirations, and Vietnamese engineers have great potential. Vietnam is a country of very hard-working people, dedicated to the development of the country, which is a factor for success in research and development, he said, adding that he will discuss specifically with Vietnamese partners and units about opportunities and hopes to continue to receive support in the upcoming cooperation process.
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