Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends WEF Davos.

(NLĐO) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife will join a high-level Vietnamese delegation on a 9-day working trip to Europe.

On the afternoon of January 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, along with a high-level Vietnamese delegation, will pay official visits to the Republic of Poland and the Czech Republic, attend the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, and hold bilateral meetings in Switzerland.

Thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính dự WEF Davos- Ảnh 1. — Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh

The trip took place from January 15 to 23, 2025, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, and the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a non-profit organization operating on a public-private partnership model, founded by Professor Klaus Schwab in 1971 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The WEF currently has approximately 700 partners, including leaders of leading global corporations.

The WEF was one of the first forums to discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is currently implementing several concrete and substantive related initiatives, such as the Industrial Revolution Centers in the US, India, and Japan, and the Cybersecurity Center with the participation of 92 partners.

The most important event of the WEF is its annual meeting, held in January in Davos, Switzerland. Alongside this are regional forums. WEF events attract leading political, business, cultural, social, and academic leaders from around the world to shape agendas at the regional and global levels.

Since establishing relations in 1989, cooperation between Vietnam and the WEF has consistently been a focus of attention and development in many areas, thanks to the efforts of leaders from both sides.

Vietnamese government leaders are very interested in and regularly attend major WEF conferences.

Vietnam has participated in the WEF Davos annual meeting five times at the Prime Minister level (2007, 2010, 2017, 2019, and 2024) and has also attended numerous regional forums: the WEF Tianjin (or Dalian, China) meeting, the WEF ASEAN meeting, etc.

Vietnam has consistently demonstrated dynamism and proactiveness in proposing new ideas and implementing practical cooperation plans. Notable achievements include collaborating with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to organize the WEF East Asia Conference in Ho Chi Minh City in 2010; the WEF Mekong Conference in Hanoi in 2016; and the WEF ASEAN Conference in 2018…

Notably, Vietnam and the WEF jointly organized the first Vietnam-WEF National Strategic Dialogue in October 2021, a hybrid format combining in-person and online participation, with the theme "Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships: Key Drivers of Comprehensive Recovery and Sustainable, Inclusive, and Innovative Development." At the WEF Tianjin Conference in 2023, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh co-chaired the second National Strategic Dialogue with the theme "Promoting New Growth Drivers to Shaping the Future of the Country."

On June 26, 2023, at the WEF Tianjin Conference, the two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Vietnam-WEF cooperation for the period 2023-2026, focusing on cooperation in six areas: Innovation in the food sector; Development of innovation skills and green transformation; Industrial clusters aiming for net-zero emissions; Promoting actions on plastics, including the Global Partnership on Plastics Action Programme (GPAP); Financing for renewable energy transition; Cooperation in digital transformation and promoting the establishment of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR).

(NLĐO) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife will join a high-level Vietnamese delegation on a 9-day working trip to Europe.

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