Prime Minister: Welcome New Zealand investors to Vietnam

Welcoming New Zealand businesses to invest in Vietnam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked businesses to act as a bridge for the formation of projects between the two countries.

In the capital Wellington, at noon on March 11 (local time), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a discussion with leading New Zealand businesses during the Prime Minister's official visit to this country.

Scene of the seminar

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Speaking at the seminar, Mr. Mitchell Pham, Chief Technology Officer of TradeWindow, a startup company operating mainly in the field of providing software services to support freight transport and logistics, expressed interest in the conditions and opportunities for cooperation with domestic enterprises. Meanwhile, Dr. Christine Clark, CEO of Kalandra Education Group, said that this enterprise is ready to provide 1,000 nursing training scholarships for Vietnam. Discussing this proposal, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said that Vietnam is a very effective nursing supply market for Germany and Japan and is ready to cooperate with New Zealand. Ms. Lan affirmed that, under the direction of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Health will coordinate with agencies to discuss directly with Kalandra on this content.

Prime Minister welcomes New Zealand businesses to invest in Vietnam

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Coming from New Zealand Wind Energy, an emerging New Zealand enterprise in the field of wind energy development, Director Kevin Hart analyzed that Vietnam has the potential to develop wind power and renewable energy in the zero emission strategy, but New Zealand companies are having difficulty competing with some markets that supply cheap equipment. Mr. Kevin Hart suggested that the Vietnamese Government create conditions for the development of a joint renewable energy project between the two countries. This idea received support from both Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung. Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat suggested that New Zealand enterprises pay attention to Vietnam's priority areas, propose models of educational and training cooperation and especially scientific research exchange. Speaking at the seminar, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that Vietnam has set a goal of becoming a modern industrialized country with an upper middle income by 2030; By 2045, Vietnam will become a developed, high-income country.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the seminar

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Vietnam is focusing on implementing three strategic breakthroughs, including promoting strategic infrastructure development, high-quality human resources, and institutional improvement. Therefore, according to the Prime Minister, economic - trade - investment cooperation between the two sides still has a lot of room. Assessing the biggest difficulty in cooperation between the two countries is the geographical distance, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh informed that in the coming time, the two sides will study reopening direct flights to create more favorable conditions for trade. "10 years ago, little trade was not beneficial for direct flights, but now with 15,000 Vietnamese people living, working, and studying in New Zealand and will increase rapidly when two-way trade turnover will increase to 2 billion USD this year and 3 billion USD in 2026, opening a direct flight is completely feasible," the Prime Minister analyzed. The head of the Vietnamese Government pledged to promote economic diplomacy activities to further strengthen trade and investment cooperation, high-level negotiations so that the two sides can open their markets to each other, creating conditions for goods from both sides to enter each other's markets. "For example, we are importing kiwi, abalone, and cherries from New Zealand, in return exporting bananas, mangoes, and green-skinned grapefruit to New Zealand," the Prime Minister cited, and also stated that Vietnam is prioritizing the fields of science and technology, innovation, electronic components, electric cars, semiconductors, new energy, hydrogen, biotechnology, healthcare, and green transportation. The Prime Minister asked New Zealand businesses to act as a bridge for the formation of projects between the two countries.

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