Women Entrepreneurs Look to the Sea and Islands

On March 2, 2013, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council, in collaboration with Vietnam Television (VTV), organised an exchange programme called "Proud of Vietnamese women entrepreneurs - Spring and past roads" with the overarching topic of “Women entrepreneurs look to the national sea and islands." Distinguished attendants included Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen, Chairwoman of Vietnam Women Association Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, and high-ranking officials and retired leaders of central agencies. The programme was also attended by nearly 500 outstanding women entrepreneurs in the country and navy soldiers.

 

The programme commemorated the 103^rd anniversary of International Women's Day and the 1973^rd anniversary of the Trung Sisters’ Uprising - a tradition to honour the image of Vietnamese women over time and recognise their tremendous merit and contributions in all aspects of life, particularly the national economy. Vietnamese women entrepreneurs keep growing in number and asserting their increasingly important roles in the country’s development. Not only being very good at housework and business leadership, female entrepreneurs also strive very much for better corporate social responsibility by getting engaged in a variety of meaningful community-development activities. This time, they have many activities showing their love for the country’s sea and islands and their admiration for the navy who keep the peace for national sovereignty.

 

Delivering a speech at the programme, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan thanked women entrepreneurs for what they have done. She said the Party and the State have a lot of policies to develop business and promote the roles of businesspeople for the cause of national construction, protection and development because we must have a powerful force of businesspeople - a vanguard force of creating wealth for the society - in order to make our nation industrialised by 2020 as expected. Therefore, the business community and the business force keeps expanding, including women entrepreneurs. They actively contribute to the implementation of comprehensive strategies and economic growth, ensure employment jobs and solve social issues.

 

In hailing the roles of Vietnamese women entrepreneurs, Vice President Doan said, "With the virtues of creativity, intelligence, diligence, patience and mercy, women entrepreneurs in Vietnam have succeeded in many areas we used to think that only men could do. The marketplace has fostered their nerves, increased their experience, built up their courage, dynamism and creativity in business. They dare to cope with difficulties, especially in the past financial storm and crisis, to reorganise production activities, reshuffle personnel force and target the right investments to revitalise their businesses. Women entrepreneurs wholeheartedly help orphan children and the elderly to lead happy and well-fed lives."

 

Also speaking at this programme, VCCI President Vu Tien Loc handed VND1 billion to Major General Bui Si Trinh, a representative of the Navy Command, and formally pronounced the campaign “Entrepreneurs look to the national sea and islands.”