Ninh Binh province, Asan city sign cooperation agreements for new period

Chairman of the Ninh Binh provincial People’s Committee Pham Quang Ngoc briefed the Asan delegation about the province’s history, culture, potential and strengths in socio-economic development after mergence.

Ngoc stressed that cooperative ties between Asan city and Ninh Binh was established in May 2016. After nine years of cooperation, the two sides have exchanged regular high-level visits, expanded cooperation in many fields and have reaped sound outcomes.

He expressed his wish to deepen the cooperative ties in five main fields, namely investment and trade; agriculture and rural areas; education and training; science-technology and digital transformation; and people-to-people exchange.

For his part, Asan Mayor Oh Sae Hyun thanked the hosts for their warm welcome as well as efforts in tightening the friendship between the two localities.

Oh emphasised that the two sides have maintained numerous exchange activities, including international youth exchange, art exchange and training programmes for agricultural development.

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sending Ninh Binh's seasonal agricultural labourers to work in Asan city was one of the cooperation highlights.

To support labourers, Asan city’s centre for agricultural techniques planned a trainning programme to teach Korean languages, culture and techniques for the seasonal labourers. The reception of seasonal labourers will become a typical model of cooperation between Vietnam and the RoK, he said.

The Mayor hoped the two sides would expand cooperation in the fields of agriculture, culture, tourism, youths, especially economy, investment, science - technology, and education - training in the coming time.

Oh also hoped enterprises of the two localities would work together to build plans for cooperation, investment, mutual support for common interests.

He also expected that Ninh Binh authorities would provide maximum support for Korean firms when they make investment in the province.

At the talk, representatives of departments, sectors and units of the two sides discussed numerous issues related to seasonal labourers, agricultural cooperation and orientations for cooperation in the coming time.

At the end of the talk, the Ninh Binh provincial People's Committee and Asan city’s administration signed two cooperation agreements, including a cooperation agreement between the Ninh Binh provincial People's Committee and Asan city’s administration and cooperation agreement on sending and receiving seasonal workers to the RoK between the Ninh Binh provincial the administration of Asan city./.