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./.