胡志明市与青岛商讨投资贸易关系

 

HCM City, Qingdao discuss investment, trade ties

HCM City and Chinese cities have huge potential for co-operation in many sectors, Le Thanh Liem, the deputy chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, has said. 
Speaking at the Qingdao-HCM City business seminar held in HCM City on Thursday, he said that trade between HCM City and China had grown rapidly in the last few years to US$9.6 billion last year. 
It was worth nearly $4.8 billion in the first half of the year. 
As of July, Chinese investors ranked 14th out of countries and territories investing in the city, with 181 projects and total registered capital of $314.37 million. 
Liem said the city was making “tremendous efforts to become one of Southeast Asia’s major financial, economic, trading and technological hubs”. 
The city is focusing on its key industries in an effort to realise the target. The key sectors include mechanical engineering, electronics - information technology, chemicals - plastics – rubber and food processing. 

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胡志明市与青岛商讨投资贸易关系

胡志明市与中国城市在许多领域有巨大的合作潜力,胡志明市人民委员会副主席Le Thanh Liem曾表示。

周四在胡志明市举行的青岛-胡志明商业研讨会上,他说，在过去几年里，胡志明市与中国之间的贸易迅速增长至去年的96亿美元。

今年上半年，价值近48亿美元。

7月,中国投资者在投资国家和地区中排名第14位, 181个项目,总注册资本3.1437亿美元。

Liem说，该城市做出了“巨大的努力成为东南亚的主要金融、经济、贸易和技术中心”。