Suwon City and Vietnam's Hai Duong Province Hold Policy Exchange Talks

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] A delegation of labor organizations from Hai Duong Province in Vietnam, an international sister city of Suwon City, visited Suwon City Hall on the 15th to discuss policy exchange measures including labor policies.

This exchange follows the sister city relationship established between Suwon and Hai Duong Province in July 2004 and the friendly city exchange agreement signed in October 2013. Since the agreement, delegations from both cities have been visiting each other annually.

On this day, a Hai Duong Province delegation consisting of five members, including Won Young-deok, Director of the Economic Policy Bureau of Suwon City, officials from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' Suwon Regional Headquarters, and Mei Sua An, Chairman of the Hai Duong Provincial Labor Federation, held talks in the city hall video conference room.

Meanwhile, the Hai Duong Province delegation, which arrived in Suwon on the 14th and visited the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' Suwon Branch and Samsung Electronics, is scheduled to remain in Korea until the 19th.

Director Won Young-deok said, "Suwon City is implementing various labor policies with the goal of labor-management harmony, uniquely among all local governments in the nation by establishing and operating a 'Labor Policy Division' in January," and added, "We will actively share Suwon City's experience with Hai Duong Province and continue the 15-year friendship between our two cities."

Chairman Mei Sua An stated, "Hai Duong Province also places paramount importance on labor-management harmony," and expressed expectations that "there will be continued active exchanges between Suwon City and Hai Duong Province next year in various fields including labor policies and culture."