The theme of the Festival is 'Leipzig celebrates diversity' with activities promoting cuisine, products, culture and trade from many countries.
Attending the event, there were many booths of countries with sister relations or cooperative representatives in Leipzig city as well as organizations and associations in Leipzig. At the opening ceremony, Mayor of Leipzig city, Mr. Burkhard Jung said that Leipzig is a multicultural and multi-ethnic city. The festival is an opportunity to connect culture, trade and promote the typical products of the countries to friends around the world. The Mayor thanked the representatives of the countries for attending and wished to continue to promote the spirit of cooperation, actively participate in promoting the culture and typical products of the countries in the future.
On the opening day of the event, the Vietnam Trade Office inaugurated the Vietnamese pavilion with the participation of Mr. Bui Quang Huy, Chairman of the Vietnam Business Association in Leipzig, representatives of the Leipzig Government and many representatives of the Vietnamese community in Leipzig.
Leipzig Mayor Burkhard Jung, Leipzig Deputy Mayor Clemens Schülke in charge of economy, labor and digital affairs and city officials visited the Vietnam pavilion and highly appreciated Vietnamese products, cuisine as well as the contributions of the Vietnamese community to the overall development of the city. The Mayor also thanked the role of the Vietnamese community and the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany for being an important bridge connecting Vietnam - Germany as well as between Leipzig and Ho Chi Minh City (Lepzig's sister city).
The city representative announced that in 2025, within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Germany, the city will have special program activities for Vietnam and hopes that the Vietnamese side will actively cooperate and participate with the premise of this product promotion activity.
At the Vietnam pavilion, activities introducing Vietnamese export products took place enthusiastically. Visitors from Germany and other countries were very interested in experiencing Vietnamese products such as coffee, tea of King Coffee, dried fruits of Hung Nguyen company, dried fruits of Imex Universal company with the brand name Madam Hong, Son La tea products, Ocop Binh Dinh tea, Longevity seaweed, Eco Straws Vietnam rice straws, Ecoever's bagasse-based bowls, plates, cups and glasses or sauces and spices of DH Foods and many Vietnamese rice products such as rice, vermicelli, pho, and rice vermicelli. Visitors shared very useful and practical information about their needs, tastes, and consumption habits. They said they really like environmentally friendly products, organic products that focus on sustainable consumption. Many visitors were very interested in the channels to purchase these products in Germany.
Over the years, Germany has always been one of Vietnam's important trade partners. In the relationship between the two countries, economic, trade and investment cooperation is a pillar. In 2023, two-way trade turnover reached more than 11 billion USD. Germany is Vietnam's largest trade partner in Europe. By the end of July 2024, the total import-export turnover between Vietnam and Germany reached about 6.7 billion USD, an increase of 3.47%, of which Vietnam's exports to Germany reached over 4.58 billion USD, an increase of 4.84% and Vietnam's imports from Germany reached about 2.12 billion USD, an increase of 0.63% over the same period in 2023, with a trade surplus of over 2.46 billion USD, an increase of 8.76%. For the agricultural and aquatic products group, the export turnover of this group reached over 734.74 million USD, an increase of 40.6%, in which almost all items with recorded exports in this group achieved positive growth, specifically coffee reached over 427.75 million USD, an increase of 42.3%; aquatic products over 109.67 million USD, an increase of 6.3%; cashew nuts reached over 77.88 million USD, an increase of 26.8%; pepper reached over 57.13 million USD, an increase of 152.4%; vegetables and fruits reached 37.64 million USD, an increase of 118.7%; rubber reached 24.15 million USD.
Regarding local cooperation, Leipzig and Ho Chi Minh City officially established a partnership on July 21, 2021. Previously, at the end of 2018, Leipzig opened a representative office in Vietnam and so far, Leipzig is the only German city with a representative office in Vietnam. In recent years, Leipzig and Vietnam in general, as well as Ho Chi Minh City in particular, have closely coordinated and effectively implemented many cooperation projects in many diverse fields from economics, culture, health, education - training, to energy, environment, conservation of rare animals, etc.
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