On Monday, Da Nang People’s Committee Vice Chairman Dang Viet Dung played host to Mr Sadahisa Sugiyama, the CEO of the Minami Fuji Co Ltd which is headquartered in Japan.

The visit by the Japanese businessman aimed to seek cooperation opportunities in vocational training and business administration.

In addition to his great passion for doing business, Mr Sugiyama has a keen interest in education.  Over the past 40 years, he has successfully implemented many human resource training projects in Asian countries.  Amongst them are the ‘Global Management Leaders Training’ project and one for training technicians involved in roofing and exterior construction.  Under the 2 projects, trainees are offered free-of-charge 3-month training courses.  Most notably, his company has cooperated with the universities of Foreign Trade, and Industry in Ha Noi to effectively deploy these projects.

Mr Sugiyama (third, left) and Vice Chairman Dung (fourth, left)

Mr Sugiyama remarked that there is currently a large gap between the training programmes at Vietnamese universities and the real demands for human resources from businesses nationwide.  Therefore, it is very necessary to introduce innovative educational methods at domestic universities.  He affirmed that his training methods all focus on hands-on activities rather than theoretical learning.

Mr Sugiyama also said that he is willing to give suggestions to the city authorities, especially ideas for developing the city into a hub for attracting more high-quality human resources in the near future.

In reply, Vice Chairman Dung remarked that developing high-quality human resources is now considered to be one of the city’s most important tasks, and that top priority is being given to upgrading local educational establishments and sending local trainees to foreign countries worldwide.  This will help to develop high-quality human resources in order to accelerate the city’s progress.

He also showed his strong support for the company’s intention to cooperate with the city’s universities of Technology and Economics in implementing the training projects mentioned above.