Consul of Vietnam: want to work with Tomsk in engineering and IT

TOMSK, Oct 21 – RIA Tomsk. The consul general of Vietnam in Yekaterinburg Vu Huy Mung at the meeting with the governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachny on Friday hoped for a cooperation with the region in spheres of mechanical engineering, IT, education and tourism on Friday, the correspondent of RIA Tomsk reports.

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According to the consul, he summed up the result of the first visit to Tomsk at the closed meeting with the governor. He highly appreciated the level of social and economic development of the region and hoped for development of the further cooperation, having emphasized that the existing contacts of the parties are insufficiently large-scale.

"We have agreed that we will expand interaction in the sphere of the industry, agriculture, in the field of education and tourism. <…> At you great opportunities in the field of mechanical engineering and IT as Tomsk has the large centers of research and training, it is fine opportunities for cooperation", – Vu Huy Mung  told journalists after the meeting with the governor, having added that Vietnam will be glad to meet the Tomsk delegation next year.

In turn the press service of the region administration with reference to the governor reports that the Tomsk region is interested in mutually beneficial cooperation also as well as Vietnam. "We want to expand our communications that to use cooperation potential for hundred percent", – press service quotes Zhvachkin.

According to the region administration, the goods turnover between the Tomsk region and the Republic of Vietnam constituted 3,4 million US dollars (for all 2015 – 3,7 million) in eight months of 2016. The region imports seafood and children's toys and exports petrochemical and machine-building products, educational services.