He was welcomed by Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Chuong, and representatives of some local agencies.

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh greets Mayor of Leipzig city Torsten Bonew.

At the meeting, Tinh briefed his guests on Hoa Binh’s socio-economic situation as well as its development targets, potential and advantages in agriculture, tourism and energy.

He also talked about environmental and energy technologies of the province, the operation of Hoa Binh Clean Water JSC and the locality’s demand for technological development in the time ahead.

Tinh called on the German side to step up research and cooperation to set up a close, sustainable relationship between Leipzig city and Hoa Binh province, while helping Hoa Binh apply and develop energy and environmental technologies and speeding up funding for water supply network planning in the locality.

Hoa Binh will grant a decision on investment intention to Aqua One Water JSC to build a factory specialising in water treatment and supply in southeastern Hanoi at an investment promotion conference slated for December 11 in the province. The 304 billion VND project has a designed capacity of 600,000 cu.m per day and night.

Torsten Bonew, Mayor of Leipzig city, hands over 100,000 EUR to help Hoa Binh with water supply planning research.  

The German side introduced Leipzig city’s situation and its strength in water treatment, energy development and agriculture, and highlighted effective cooperation between the city and Vietnamese localities.

Torsten Bonew lauded achievements of Vietnam and Hoa Binh in particular over the past time, especially changes in the awareness of Vietnamese businesses and people of environmental protection.

The mayor expressed his hope that through high-quality, sustainable technologies, German businesses would contribute to improving water quality for Vietnamese people, and that the two sides will continue to promote cooperation for mutual development.

On this occasion, Torsten Bonew presented 100,000 EUR to support Hoa Binh in water supply planning research./.

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