(VOVworld) – Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and Governor of Aichi prefecture Hideaki Ohmura on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation and friendship.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and Governor of Aichi Prefecture Hideaki Ohmura sign the MoU (Photo: VNA)

The two leaders emphasized that the memorandum aims to step up cooperation and friendship for both cities' prosperity, and contribute to deepening the extensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Japan. The MoU will help the two sides make more initiatives in bilateral cooperation to open up new prospects for their investment and trade ties, and broaden respective markets in the future. The MoU will also generate opportunities for people of the two sides to become closer for the benefit of their localities. Governor Hideaki Ohmura said his locality wants to work closely with Ho Chi Minh City in agriculture development, urban traffic management, and air transportation.