Webinar seeks ways to connect young entrepreneurs in HCM City and Indonesia
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) in coordination with the Indonesian Consulate General in the city held a webinar on December 21 to promote investment collaboration between Vietnamese and Indonesian young entrepreneurs.
Do Viet Ha, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations, speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) in coordination with the Indonesian Consulate General in the city held a webinar on December 21 to promote investment collaboration between Vietnamese and Indonesian youngentrepreneurs.
ꦺ Addressing the event, entitled“Building resilience and adapting to new normal: from the perspective of youngentrepreneurs”, Do Viet Ha, HUFO Chairman, emphasised that Vietnam and Indonesia have many similarities inculture and history. The two countries have alwaysbeen important partners of each other, with many favourable conditions tostrengthen economic and trade links.
Currently, Vietnam and Indonesia haveapplied similar measures such as prioritising vaccination in big cities,switching from full lockdown to partial lockdown in accordance with risk levels.
Both countries have chosenthe option of living with COVID-19 and are focusing on speeding up thepost-pandemic economic recovery, he said. The two countries always workclosely and support each other in multilateral cooperation frameworks such as the Associationof Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the World Trade Organisation and Regional ComprehensiveEconomic Partnership Agreement.
This is part of a series of international economic cooperation seminars jointly held by the union andrelevant agencies to promote collaboration in various fields and relationsbetween the two countries, Ha said.
✃ Participants at the webinar looked into the potential for socio-economic and cultural development of Vietnam andIndonesia and ways to overcome challenges of post-pandemic recovery. They alsodiscussed measures to strengthen cooperation relating to trade and investmentbetween businesses of the two countriesin general, and between young businesses in HCM City and Indonesia inparticular./.
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Do Viet Ha, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations, speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA) 
