At the meeting, Permenant Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Ho Ky Minh gave an overview of the city's socio-economic development, as well as the orientation of focusing resources to develop 5 key industries: (1) Tourism and High quality services associated with resort real estate; (2) Seaports and airports associated with logistics; (3) High-tech industry associated with smartcity and entrepreneurship; (4) Information technology, electronics and telecommunications industries associated with the digital economy; (5) High-tech agriculture and fishery. Esspecially, Da Nang is currently focusing on developing and attracting investment in the field of semiconductor and the project of international financial center.
Mr. Ho Ky Minh requests Ms. Katherine Lam to support the city to connect with US semiconductor equipment manufacturing enterprises; promote cooperation with Da Nang in the fields of logistics, high technology, and IT. Additionally, it is important to connect universities in Da Nang with universities in Oregon state to train human resources to serve the city's semiconductor industry.
The overview of the meeting
At the meeting, Ms. Katherine Lam introduced the state of Oregon as one of the leading states in the United States in terms of exports, of which the export turnover of the semiconductor industry reached 9.5 billion USD. Oregon is the capital of leading US corporations such as Intel, Nike, etc. Portland State University trains human resources in the semiconductor industry for the state, and the state of Oregon alone accounts for 15% of the country's semiconductor industry human resources. Oregon's largest city, Portland, is known as the city of roses (the city has rose events, a rose research center, and a rose garden with more than 600 types of roses). She commented that Da Nang is a beautiful coastal city with similarities to the state of Oregon, and suggested that Da Nang city and Oregon state promote cooperation in the field of tourism, in addition to cooperation in the field of high technology and semiconductor chip technology. Ms. Katherine Lam also appreciated the dynamic development of Da Nang city; At the same time, we hope that city leaders will continue to create the best conditions for US businesses in general and Oregon state businesses in particular to invest in Da Nang city.
Mr. Paul Evans, Congressman of Oregon state, after listening to the sharing of Mr. Ho Ky Minh about the fact that 03 US aircraft carriers have docked at Da Nang port and US partners have had many activities with the city in the exercise. training on climate change response and search and rescue expressed their desire to invite the Da Nang city delegation to Oregon state to attend the search and rescue training event held annually in Oregon.
Mr. Dainel Nguyen, Congressman of Oregon state, proposed that Da Nang city soon have a working delegation to Oregon to promote cooperation, especially attending investment and trade promotion events taking place in May every year in Oregon.
Mr. Ho Ky Minh and Ms. Katherine Lam took photo at the meeting
Vice Chairman Ho Ky Minh highly appreciated the cooperation susgestion and assigned relevant agencies and units to study and deploy in the coming time.
