PM urged US businesses to invest in tourism and trade opportunities with Việt Nam after COVID-19

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on May 17 (local time) attended the US-Việt Nam trade, investment, and tourism promotion conference themed ‘Rediscovering Việt Nam’ in San Francisco.

The conference, held by the national carrier Vietnam Airlines and two travel groups – Saigontourist Group and Thiên Minh Group – to boost the cooperation between the enterprises of the two countries and to introduce the image of Việt Nam to US friends and partners.

Addressing the event, PM Chính stressed Việt Nam’s consistent foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification, multilateralization, and commitment to be a good friend, a reliable partner, a responsible member of the international community; and the building of an independent and self-reliant economy associated with active, proactive, extensive international integration with substance and effectiveness.

The Government leader affirmed that economic, investment, trade, and tourism cooperation is an important pillar in the Việt Nam-US relationship.

In the very challenging year of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two-way trade still reached US$112 billion, accounting for nearly one-third of the total US-ASEAN trade turnover.