He
made the remarks during a meeting on June 12 with a Japanese
delegation led by the President of the Japanese Business
Association in Ho Chi Minh City (JBAH) Tsutomu Sakagami.
Cuong said the province encourages foreign businesses to invest in high-tech agriculture, real estate, and tourism.
Dong
Nai is currently home to about 1,500 FDI projects, worth more than 27
billion USD. Of which, Japan has nearly 200 enterprises with a total
capital of over 4 billion USD.
For his part, Tsutomu Sakagami
highlighted Dong Nai’s potential in attracting investment in agriculture
and industry, saying Japanese businesses will invest in the province in
order to welcome the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Dong Nai has recently received a number of Japanese businesses who wish to invest in the province.
On
June 3, a delegation of Japanese enterprises from Nagoya region, led
by Hiroyasu Naito, Vice Chairman of Nagoya Chamber of Commerce &
Industry (NCCI) and President of Rinnai Corp, embarked on a fact-finding
mission to Dong Nai in order to seek investment opportunities in the
province.
Earlier, the province and the Bureau of Economy, Trade
and Industry of Japan’s Kansai region signed an economic cooperation
framework agreement, with a focus on links in support industry./.
