High Technology Orientation for Can Tho & Mekong Delta

8:56:24 AM | 11/4/2008

On March 31, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Trade (VCCI)’s Can Tho Branch and Can Tho People’s Committee held a seminar themed “High Technology Orientation for Can Tho and the Mekong Delta”. PhD Vo Hung Dung, Director of VCCI Can Tho, said that the seminar aimed to raise the awareness of high technology, and define the role and importance of high technology in the process of economic development to help managers consult provinces and cities in Mekong Delta in building strategies and policies to develop high technology sector. The seminar collected experts’ opinions inside and outside the region to contribute to socio-economic development in the Mekong Delta region. These opinions will also be background for the orientation for Can Tho Province and Mekong Delta provinces in the coming time.
 
The seminar lasted all day with three sessions focusing on the following themes: “High Technology and Hi-tech Development Trends in the World”; “High Technology and the Situation in Vietnam: Experience Lessons for Can Tho and the Mekong Delta”; and “The Role of Can Tho City in Developing a Hi-tech Sector in the Mekong Delta”. The seminar was targeted to orient industrial parks in manufacturing products with high hi-tech content, paying due attention to protecting the environment, and developing industries and agriculture with hi-tech content, reducing and removing labour-intensive and environment-unfriendly industries.
V.HA