Da Nang People's Committee Vice Chairman Ho Ky Minh on 5 June received Finnish Ambassador to Viet Nam Kari Kahiluoto in the city.

Da Nang People's Committee Vice Chairman Ho Ky Minh (5th left) posing for a photo with Finnish Ambassador to Viet Nam Kari Kahiluoto (4th left)

During the meeting, Ho Ky Minh and Kari Kahiluoto exchanged views on ways to strengthen investment and economic cooperation between Da Nang and Finnish localities, as well as to further development of their relations.

The officials also discussed Da Nang's investment opportunities that appeal to Finnish businesses.

Vice Chairman Minh said that Da Nang is striving to become a worth-living modern-smart, global city with unique identity, and a start-up destination and international innovation hub of Asia in 2045. Hence, Mr Minh remarked that his city needed a helping hand from the Finnish diplomat to encourage even more investors from his country to pour money into some of the city's priority aspects, including information technology, smarter city building, science and technology, waste treatment and recycling in the coming time.

Ambassador Kari Kahiluoto expressed his delight at the fruitful results from the bilateral cooperative ties between Da Nang and Finnish localities over recent years.

In particular, Da Nang and Finland's Turku city have established bilateral friendship and cooperation relationships. On 16 April, an online meeting between Da Nang and Finland's Salo City was successfully organised.

Mr Kari Kahiluoto hoped that the bilateral cooperative ties between Da Nang and Finnish localities will be further strengthened in such aspects as seaports, logistics, smart transportation systems, hi-tech and  cyber security in the years ahead.

He noted that some Finnish businesses now showed their keen interest in the city's Software Park No 2 projectand the upgrade of the city's Maternity and Paediatrics Hospital.

The Finnish diplomat asked for help from the city authorities to facilitate Finnish investors to seek investment opportunities in Da Nang, hereby helping to boost the bilateral cooperative relations between the two sides in the future.

By LAM PHUONG - Translated by MAI DUNG