Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends WEF Davos

(NLDO)- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife will join a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation on a 9-day working trip to Europe.

On the afternoon of January 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife will join a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to pay official visits to Poland and the Czech Republic, attend the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, and hold bilateral meetings in Switzerland.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh

The working trip took place from January 15 to 23, 2025, at the invitation of Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab.

WEF is a non-profit organization operating in the form of public-private partnership, founded by Professor Klaus Schwab in 1971, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. WEF currently has about 700 partners who are leaders of the world's leading corporations.

WEF is one of the first forums to discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is currently implementing a number of specific and substantive initiatives such as the Industrial Revolution Center in the US, India and Japan and the Cyber ​​Security Center with the participation of 92 partners.

The most important event of WEF is the Annual Meeting held in January in Davos, Switzerland. Besides, there are regional forums. WEF events attract the participation of the world's leading political, business, cultural, social, research - academic leaders... to shape the agenda at the regional and global levels.

Since establishing relations in 1989, cooperation between Vietnam and WEF has been regularly promoted and developed in many fields by leaders of both sides.

Vietnamese Government leaders are very interested in and regularly attend major WEF conferences.

Vietnam has attended the WEF Davos Annual Meeting at the Prime Minister level five times (2007, 2010, 2017, 2019 and 2024) and many times attended regional forums: WEF Tianjin (or Dalian, China), WEF ASEAN Meeting....

Vietnam has always shown dynamism, actively proposing new ideas and implementing practical cooperation plans. Vietnam's outstanding mark is coordinating with WEF to organize the WEF East Asia Conference in 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City; WEF Mekong Conference in 2016 in Hanoi; WEF ASEAN Conference in 2018...

Notably, Vietnam and WEF jointly organized the first Vietnam - WEF National Strategy Dialogue in October 2021 in both in-person and online formats with the theme "Strengthening public-private partnerships: A key driver of comprehensive recovery and sustainable, inclusive and innovative development". At the 2023 WEF Tianjin Conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh co-chaired the second National Strategy Dialogue with the theme "Promoting new growth drivers to build the country's future".

On June 26, 2023, at the WEF Tianjin Conference, the two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Vietnam - WEF cooperation for the period of 2023 - 2026, focusing on cooperation in six areas including: Innovation in the food sector; Developing innovation and green transformation skills; Industrial clusters towards net zero emissions; Promoting actions on plastics, including the Global Partnership for Plastics Action Program (GPAP); Financing for renewable energy transition; Cooperation in digital transformation and promoting the establishment of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR).

Source: https://nld.com.vn/thu-tuong-pham-minh-chinh-du-wef-davos-196250113213920608.htm