HCMC - The economic cooperation between Vietnam and Spain is expected to enter a more eventful period, not only in the field of aids but also trade and investment, manifested by the first-ever Spain-Vietnam Investment and Business Cooperation Forum opening here yesterday.
The two-day event, taking place at the Caravelle Hotel yesterday, is organized by the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), with the help from the Spanish Embassy's HCMC-based Economic and Commercial Office and the HCMC Investment and Trade Promotion Center (ITPC).
Discussions are taking place between 33 Spanish companies and 127 Vietnamese firms, alongside almost 270 face-to-face business match-ups that have been scheduled during the two days of the forum," said Pedro Mejia Gomez, president of ICEX who is also the Spanish secretary of state of tourism and trade.
According to Gomez, this forum not only aimed at identifying investment and business opportunities but also helped Spanish businessmen to find partners in Vietnam.
The forum is expected to get Spanish companies known more to Vietnamese partners, he said.
"I hope that the forum would spread the image of the Spanish companies in a wide range of sectors, including tourism, financial services, consultancy, furniture and decorative items, industrial engineering, metallurgy, renewable energies and environmental technologies," he told the Daily.
During the press meeting yesterday morning, Gomez stressed that the Spanish government was interested especially in Vietnam's infrastructure projects, such as the city's metro systems.
Apart from a soft loan of about 270 million euro mentioned in a financial cooperation program signed in Hanoi yesterday, our government will also provide to Vietnam a grant of 4 million euro for traffic projects," said Gomez.
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