4:08:43 PM | 24/10/2008
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on October 21 told entrepreneurs of 400 companies of both sides at a business forum in Hainan province that Vietnam wants to boost trade with the Chinese province to US$1 billion by 2010, Vietnamese state media said.
“My visit to China this time is discuss detailed measures with Chinese counterpart and officials to finalize the strategic and comprehensive cooperation, focusing on expanding trade and investment, bringing bilateral trade to US$25 billion by 2010,” PM Dung said.
“Vietnam and Hainan should further tighten cooperation in tourism, logistics, agro, forestry and fisheries processing,” Dung proposed.
Two-day trade between Hainan and Vietnam reached US$260 million last year, Hainan province is to deepen comprehensive cooperation, Luo Baoming, governor of the Hainan province said.
Luo also proposed Hainan and Vietnam hold regular meetings on economics and commercial bond at ministerial level, open direct air routes.
After the meeting, Dung witnessed signing of a cooperation pact between Hainan and Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Dung and his delegation are slated to arrive in Beijing on October 22 to meet Chinese leaders of Wen Jiabao, Secretary-President Hu Jintao. (The People, Labor, VNA)
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