(HBO) – On March 2, the Hoa Binh People’s Committee held a working session with the Vietnamese Business Association in Japan (VJBA). The session was chaired by Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.
Representatives from the Vietnamese Business Association in Japan
present a souvenir to leaders of the Hoa Binh People’s Committee.
Currently, Japanese businesses have invested about 343.3 million USD in Hoa
Binh, mostly in Da River’s left bank industrial park, Luong Son industrial park
and other areas.
The VJBA has been operating for 11 years, focusing on giving career guidance to
the youth in Japan, sending high quality human resources of Vietnam to Japan,
exporting Vietnamese products to Japan through official channels, and
connecting businesses of the two countries, especially among small- and medium-sized
enterprises.
Representatives from the association expressed their hope for Hoa Binh’s
support and coordination to train Japanese-speaking workers and introduce high
quality agricultural products of Hoa Binh to Japanese consumers.
The two sides discussed conditions, potential and advantages for the local
development, challenges for investment connectivity and promotion activities as
well as human resources training, the connections among businesses and the sale
of farm produce in Hoa Binh and Japan.
Addressing the session, Vice Chairman Chuong said that this visit by Vietnamese
businesses in Japan to explore the local investment environment is a meaningful
activity on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic
relations.
Hoa Binh is keen on bringing more products and workers to Japan, he said,
expressing his hope that the VJBA will serve as a bridge connecting the
province and Japan in the fields of culture, politics and diplomacy.
He assigned the Hoa Binh Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Centre to act
as a connection point of the province, linking local departments, sectors and
trade associations to take steps to effectively implement cooperation
activities with the VJBA.
Hoa Binh’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) grew 9.03% last year, with
per capita income reaching 66.7 million VND (2,827 USD) per year. The rate of
trained labourers was 59.2%.
The province has 729 private investment projects, of which foreign invested
ones account for 5%, valued at 608 million USD. Japanese enterprises have
poured 343.3 million USD into projects in the locality./.
Once a mountainous province facing many challenges, Hoa Binh has, after more than a decade of implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area development, emerged as a bright spot in Vietnam’s northern midland and mountainous region. In the first quarter of 2025, the province recorded positive results, paving the way for Hoa Binh to enter a phase of accelerated growth with a proactive and confident mindset.
Hoa Binh province is steadily advancing its agricultural sector through the adoption of high-tech solutions, seen as a sustainable path for long-term development.
The steering committee for key projects of Hoa Binh province convened on May 14 to assess the progress of major ongoing developments
A delegation of Hoa Binh province has attended the "Meet Korea 2025" event, recently held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, and the People's Committee of Hung Yen province.
Hoa Binh province joined Vietnam’s national "One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme in 2019, not simply as a mountainous region following central policy, but with a clear vision to revive the cultural and agricultural values in its villages and crops.
From just 16 certified products in its inaugural year to 158 by early 2025, the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme in Hoa Binh province has followed a steady and strategic path. But beyond the numbers, it has reawakened local heritage, turning oranges, bamboo shoots, brocade, and herbal remedies into branded, market-ready goods - and, more profoundly, transformed how local communities value and present their own cultural identity.
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