Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang, along with the Deputy Prime Minister cum Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the APEC 2017 National Committee, Mr Pham Binh Minh, recently sent their letters of commendation to the authorities and people of Da Nang. 

Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang

In their letters, the 2 national leaders highly lauded Da Nang for joining its significant efforts with ministries, government agencies and the national business community to ensure the great success of the 2017 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week which took place in the city from 6-11 November.

State President Quang wrote that, on behalf of the whole country, Da Nang warmly welcomed distinguished guests from the APEC’s member economies along with those from ASEAN countries during the APEC week, and this has left good impressions on the international friends.

In his letter, Deputy Prime Minister Minh hailed the APEC summit week host city for job well done.  The city focused on enhancing local infrastructure system, refurbishing major streets, building the APEC Park, ensuring security and traffic safety, developing a large number of liaison officers and volunteers for the large-scale international event, and fulfilling related tasks effectively. 

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh

Mr Minh also wrote that although floods caused by this year’s 12th typhoon which swept through Central Viet Nam early this month adversely effected some of Da Nang’s parts, the authorities and people of the city raced against time to deal with the aftermaths of this natural disaster to re-establish normality in the lives of locals, as well as to ensure environmental sanitation and urban landscapes during the APEC week.

The 2 national leaders also urged the authorities and people of the city to make greater efforts to gain even more breakthroughs in the city’s progress to make the locality more modern and more civilised in the years ahead.  This will help Da Nang continue securing its position as one of the country’s pioneering localities in promoting innovations, dynamism and global integration.