Proactive and flexible investment promotion and cooperation

In the 5 years (2021-2025), the Can Tho Investment - Trade Promotion and Exhibition Fair Center (Center) has strived to overcome difficulties, advised and effectively implemented many investment promotion activities. The Center has established effective investment promotion channels with industry organizations and investment promotion agencies of other countries. Thereby, promoting and introducing the local potential to domestic and foreign investors and businesses, creating favorable conditions for investors to find information and make investment decisions.

Investors learn about projects calling for investment at the Planning Announcement and Investment Promotion Conference held in 2023.

Investment promotion efforts

In the past 5 years, the Center has participated in welcoming nearly 80 diplomatic delegations and domestic and foreign investors to visit and work in Can Tho City. The Center is responsible for providing information on the investment environment, policy mechanisms, and investment support for partners, and taking a number of investors to survey projects in the city. At the same time, it has coordinated the organization of 8 working delegations to promote investment and trade cooperation between Can Tho enterprises and enterprises from Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. The outstanding result of these trips is the signing of twinning cooperation agreements between Can Tho City and these countries to facilitate trade, exchange, and cooperation in areas such as health, culture, education, trade, tourism, etc. The Center also organizes conferences and seminars to provide information on investment policies and guidelines for foreign enterprises to create opportunities to promote business cooperation. In addition, the Center maintains the activities of JICA volunteers (Japan); establishes the Japan Desk in Can Tho to strengthen and promote cooperative relations with Japan.

In 2023, under the chairmanship of the City People's Committee, especially with the participation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and leaders of ministries and branches, the Center successfully organized the Conference on Planning Announcement and Investment Promotion. At the Conference, the planning of Can Tho City for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, was announced and introduced; 56 projects calling for investment were introduced and memorandums of understanding were awarded to 43 enterprises and investors who signed Memorandums of Understanding on cooperation, research and investment with Can Tho City in the fields of: Industrial Park infrastructure and other technical infrastructure; urban; trade and services; healthcare, education and other fields.

To support businesses operating in the field of import and export, the Center regularly organizes visits and works with businesses to learn, record advantages and difficulties, and make recommendations in the production and business process. To resolve problems and difficulties as well as answer recommendations from businesses. Every year, the Center coordinates with relevant departments and branches to organize a "Dialogue between the Government and Enterprises in Can Tho City" under the chairmanship of the City People's Committee. At the same time, the Center also actively builds its image, promotes and introduces the environment, policies, potentials, opportunities and investment connections through the media...

Promote trade

Trade promotion activities have also been promoted, implemented in a diverse and flexible manner, effectively supporting businesses and industries in connecting supply and demand in the domestic market; promoting existing markets, while exploiting and expanding to find new markets. Specifically, the Center has supported businesses in displaying, introducing and promoting products through organizing and participating in fairs and markets in districts, cities and provinces across the country.

Participating in promotional events in localities, the Center has organized a common booth of Can Tho City to introduce products, develop markets, connect supply and demand, and promote on-site exports of key products and OCOP products of the city. In addition, the Center also implements trade promotion activities for OCOP products of Can Tho City; Local Brand projects such as supporting the building of brands, labels, product packaging, communication activities...; participating in fairs and exhibitions of OCOP products; organizing and participating in display points of OCOP products and typical products of the city in Can Tho and affiliated provinces and cities... to promote promotion to supermarkets and distributors nationwide, expand the market,...

In the period of 2020-2025, innovating the way and scale of organizing events, the Center coordinated with departments, branches, sectors and partners to organize 24 events in Can Tho City such as the Vietnam International Agricultural Fair; the program "Investment - Trade Promotion Conference in Can Tho City"; international exhibition fair of Vietnam shrimp industry, conference of the Executive Board of the Francophone Parliamentary Union APF, Meeting of Japan - Mekong Delta Region Conference... Typically, the Fair and Exhibition "Can Tho City - 20 years of achievements and development" on the occasion of celebrating the 20th anniversary of Can Tho City being directly under the Central Government. The event attracted 350 booths with a scale of 100 booths by departments, branches, armed forces, People's Committees of districts and towns of the city to display and exhibit achievements of the industries and the Vietnam International Agricultural Fair with a scale of 250 booths of more than 150 units from provinces, cities, international and enterprises.

In the context of import-export activities facing many risks and unpredictability, in order to support businesses, especially import-export businesses, the Center promotes the implementation of diverse and flexible forms of trade promotion to expand new export markets, focusing on exploiting, applying and promoting FTAs ​​effectively and substantially. Promote trade promotion through digital platforms, exploit information technology applications to create a business linkage ecosystem, connect potential partners to create import-export business opportunities, develop the domestic market and investment cooperation. At the same time, the Center closely contacts trade agencies and Vietnamese trade promotion offices abroad to provide timely information to businesses on import-export needs and trade connection opportunities; promote cooperation with provinces and cities, sign cooperation agreements on investment and trade promotion activities, strengthen cooperation and connection between businesses of provinces and cities.

Regarding the development orientation in the coming time, Ms. Nguyen Thi Kieu Duyen, Director of the Center, said that the Center will continue to promote its role as an advisory body for the city's leaders in investment and trade promotion activities. Continue to research information related to policies and areas that the city is focusing on calling for investment to provide to investors. At the same time, organize investment and trade promotion delegations in a number of countries to promote investment and trade, strengthen trade connections; support businesses in the city's advantageous areas and visit and share experiences in building and operating some economic models.

Article and photos: KHÁNH NAM

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