On the afternoon of September 18 (local time), in Silicon Valley, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and worked with technology groups Meta (formerly Facebook) and Nvidia.

Vietnam market is very large and potential

Mr. Joel Kaplan, Vice President of Meta in charge of global public policy, highly appreciated the event of Vietnam - US just establishing a comprehensive strategic partnership and emphasized that Vietnam's market is very large and has potential.

Meta Vice President said that before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, Meta had started manufacturing in Vietnam some devices for the "virtual universe" metaverse - a term referring to the integrated environment linking all of the company's products and services.

The Prime Minister believes that cooperation activities with Meta will become increasingly effective and substantive, especially in key areas such as digital economy, artificial intelligence, etc.

However, this was interrupted due to the pandemic. Therefore, the group now wants to expand its investment in Vietnam, including continuing to produce metaverse devices for the coming years.

He said that right before the visit to Vietnam of US President Joe Biden, Meta coordinated with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to honor the 12 best innovative solutions representing 12 award categories that strongly promote the digital transformation process of Vietnamese enterprises, selected from 758 applications from more than 10 countries and territories.

Mr. Joel Kaplan cited that the Vietnam Government Portal has become a strategic, important and effective partner of Meta in Vietnam even before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. Currently, the Facebook fanpage of the Government Portal has 4.2 million regular followers with very good interactions...

From this cooperation model, Meta hopes to deploy a program to support digital diplomacy, vaccination support... with other agencies.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that within the framework of the recently established Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, Vietnam and the US have identified cooperation in science, technology and innovation as a new breakthrough in bilateral relations, and agreed to comprehensively cooperate to promote innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.

The Prime Minister said that the future of the Vietnam-US Comprehensive Strategic Partnership depends largely on the ability to realize the potential and opportunities between businesses of the two countries. This is aimed at developing investment and business in priority areas, including the contribution of US businesses in general and Meta in particular.

The Prime Minister believes that cooperation activities with Meta will become increasingly effective and substantive, especially in key areas such as digital economy, artificial intelligence, digital content, innovation and digital transformation in enterprises...

The Prime Minister hopes that Meta will continue to provide Vietnam with more technological solutions and technology transfer; and cooperate financially to develop science and technology, innovation, and promote digital transformation.

At the same time, cooperate to improve governance capacity in areas where Meta has strengths; cooperate in training high-quality human resources; cooperate in preventing cybercrime, ensuring network safety and security, and increasing the provision of positive and accurate information about the relationship between the two countries.

The Prime Minister welcomed Meta's continued cooperation with the Vietnam Innovation Center as well as Vietnamese agencies and enterprises in the spirit of win-win, making the best use of the Vietnamese market with 100 million people, benefiting the US, Vietnam and the relationship between the two countries.

Hope Nvidia will soon have a factory in Vietnam

The Prime Minister also spent a lot of time discussing with Mr. Jensen Huang - President of Nvidia about the global AI development trend and the very open potential for cooperation between the company and Vietnam, as well as giving suggestions for the national semiconductor strategy that Vietnam is building.

The Prime Minister asked Nvidia to continue to strengthen cooperation activities, expand investment in Vietnam in areas where the group has strengths and Vietnam is also giving high priority, give comments and advice on policies, support human resource training, improve technological and management capacity, and help Vietnam participate more deeply in the supply chain.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh talks with Nvidia Chairman Jensen Huang

The Prime Minister invited the Chairman of Nvidia to visit and work in Vietnam as soon as possible, with the hope that Nvidia will soon have a manufacturing plant in Vietnam, using Vietnam as a stronghold in the Southeast Asian region.

The Prime Minister assigned the leaders of the ministries participating in the working delegation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), the Vietnamese Consulate General in San Francisco to accompany and support, and representatives of large Vietnamese enterprises to discuss specifically with Nvidia to have plans to implement programs and projects in the coming time.

Agreeing with the Prime Minister's proposals, Nvidia's Chairman assessed that Vietnam is undergoing huge changes; wished to strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in semiconductors, information technology and artificial intelligence; expected that Vietnam could completely become a production base of this corporation in Southeast Asia.

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