Hwaseong Mayor Jung Myung-geun Discusses Exchange Cooperation with Vietnam's Phu Tho Province Party Secretary

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Choi Ki-ho] Hwaseong Mayor Jung Myung-geun held an international exchange briefing session at Hwaseong City Hall on the 11th, inviting Bui Minh Chau, Party Secretary of Vietnam's Phu Tho Province.

The briefing was attended by 14 people, including the Phu Tho Province Party Secretary and three Vietnamese businessmen.

At the briefing, discussions took place on ways to revitalize exchange and cooperation between Hwaseong City and Phu Tho Province, and both local governments agreed to strengthen their friendly cooperative relationship, which had slowed temporarily due to COVID-19, and to expand exchange areas beyond culture to include economy, sports, and education.

Bui Minh Chau, Party Secretary of Phu Tho Province, pledged, "We will strengthen a partnership with Hwaseong City through the discovery and implementation of substantive exchange projects."

In response, Hwaseong Mayor Jung Myung-geun said, "Vietnam is an important country conducting the third-largest scale of trade after China and the United States," and added, "We will make efforts so that Hwaseong City and Phu Tho Province can work together at the center of development for both countries."

Meanwhile, the city has actively promoted friendly exchanges in various sectors including economic exchanges to attract investment, youth sports friendly matches, homestay exchanges, cultural festival exchanges, and civil servant dispatch exchanges since signing a friendly city agreement with Phu Tho Province in October 2005.