Viet Nam seeks Shandong’s experience in operating Free Trade Zones
VGP - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested Shandong share its experience in operating Free Trade Zones and market-facilitation policies to help Vietnamese firms access the market more effectively.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (center) hosts reception for Lin Wu, Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Shandong Provincial Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress at the Government Office in Ha Noi, September 25, 2025. Photo: VGP
The Prime Minister made the suggestion on Thursday during a reception for Lin Wu, Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Shandong Provincial Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, who is on a working trip to Viet Nam.
Pham welcomed Lin on his first trip to Viet Nam in his capacity as Party Secretary of Shandong, saying that this is the second consecutive year the Chinese province has sent a high-ranking delegation to Viet Nam, reflecting Shandong's friendship and its special regard for the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership between China and Viet Nam and between Shandong and Vietnamese localities.
The host leader also hailed Shandong's rich cultural and historical traditions and congratulated on its significant development achievements, noting that Shandong has maintained its position as China's third largest economic engine.
Pham took the occasion to call upon Shandong and Vietnamese localities to step up exchanges at all levels, share development experience, promote personnel training, and tap into each side's strengths to create new breakthroughs in practical cooperation. He also urged Shandong to boost import of Vietnamese goods, particularly high-quality agricultural products.
He encouraged Shandong's leading companies to step up high-quality investment in Viet Nam, particularly in electronics, high-tech, low-emission and environmentally friendly industries.
In reply, the Chinese official expressed his desire to strengthen friendship with Vietnamese localities, encouraging the two sides to improve the quality of cooperation in trade, investment, and production, while expanding partnership to new areas such as green development and digital economy, thus creating new growth drivers for mutually beneficial and substantive collaboration.
He also called for stronger exchanges in culture, tourism, education, and arts, and people-to-people links, especially among young people, contributing to further deepening the China–Viet Nam comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, and bringing tangible benefits to localities and people of the two nations./.
