Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Le Manh Ha
hosted a reception on April 9 for visiting Vice President of France’s
Rhone-Alpes region Louis Gagnaire.

At the meeting,
Ha said the cooperation between the two localities is very important to
Ho Chi Minh City as the Rhone-Alpes region has experiences in
developing many industries that would be useful for the Vietnamese city.

He named urban management, food processing, clean
energy and electronic chip manufacturing as the possible areas for
cooperation.

Gagnaire said that the Rhone-Alpes
region always pays attention to expanding investment in many regions
worldwide, including Ho Chi Minh City, adding that the recent
opening of an office of Enterprises Rhone-Alpes International (ERAI) in
the city will help increase cooperation between the two sides’
businesses.

In the time to come, along with existing
cooperative projects in culture, science-technology, education-training
and urban planning, the two localities will expand ties to new areas of
food processing, food hygiene and safety, electronic chip and energy
saving.-VNA