On October 13, within the framework of the official visit to Vietnam from October 12-14 of the Premier of the State Council of China, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien presented two cooperation documents to Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao in the presence of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Premier of the State Council of China Li Qiang.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Prime Minister Li Qiang witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on enhancing cooperation in building a sustainable agricultural supply chain. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA
The cooperation documents include: Memorandum of Understanding on strengthening cooperation in building a sustainable agricultural supply chain between the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Commerce of China; Memorandum of Understanding on establishing a Working Group to study models for building a Vietnam-China cross-border economic cooperation zone between the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Commerce of China. The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on strengthening cooperation in building a sustainable agricultural supply chain aims to build a stable and fair environment for economic, trade and agricultural and food trade cooperation, together ensuring a smooth, stable and safe agricultural and food supply chain between the two countries, in the region and globally; promoting the formation of a supply chain for agricultural and food products; improving the level of trade facilitation for agricultural and food products and related trade promotion cooperation activities. Regarding the Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of a Working Group to study models for building a Vietnam-China cross-border economic cooperation zone, this will be the basis for the two sides to actively study models for building a cross-border economic cooperation zone on the basis of suitability with the actual situation of each side. Implementing the content that the two sides' senior leaders reached consensus in the Vietnam-China Joint Statement during the state visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam last August; in which, it stated that the two sides actively study and implement the pilot construction of a cross-border economic cooperation zone. The signing of the two cooperation documents mentioned above with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce is also the basis for the Ministry of Industry and Trade to continue to maintain and promote economic and trade cooperation, especially the export of agricultural products and food from Vietnam to the Chinese market. At the same time, speed up the research process and select a suitable cooperation model to build the Vietnam - China cross-border economic cooperation zone.
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