Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is visiting Thaco Mazda automobile factory in Chu Lai Open Economic Zone, Quang Nam province. (Photo: VGP)

He congratulated Thaco Group and Mazda for their completion of the most modern Mazda vehicles manufacturing facility in Southeast Asia, deepening Vietnam – Japan cooperation. He reiterated Vietnam’s incentives for the automobile industry while ensuring fairness for investors.

The Prime Minister attended the opening ceremony of a maritime route between Japan and Chu Lai with a registered loading output by Thaco Group of up to 600 TEU per week.

Earlier on Saturday while attending a ceremony to mark 10 years of Hoi An’s being the city of central Quang Nam province, the Prime Minister asked Hoi An to take advantage of trade villages and relic sites. He called for better business and service culture in each family, each individual and each enterprise for sustainable development and to protect Hoi An’s brand and prestige: “Hoi An should strive to become the leading ancient tourism city in the region and the world. With its prestige and advantage as one attractive destination in the Hue-Hoi An-My Son world cultural heritage triangle, convenient transport and capacity of intensive international integration, Hoi An can easily grasp all opportunities to grow stronger.”

The Prime Minister requested the city to harmoniously solve the relationship between economic development and environmental protection and cultural preservation, ensure social welfare, and consider heritage and ecological natural resources as the driving force for local growth.