▲ Governor Discussed Cooperation with the Party chief Pham Van Lan

Governor An Hee Jung had a visit from Pham Van Lan, who is the party chief of Long an Province, Vietnam, and discussed about expending the relationship and cooperation between Chungnam-do and Long An.

In the meeting, they promised establishing various exchanges and collaborations, and building-up working level meetings together.

Also, they both agreed to expend their relationship in exchange and cooperation to make a benefit for the people in both provinces in economy.

At the same time, they also agreed to support private interchange like adolescent and culture, to develop educational research institutes by cooperation, and to attract visitors by developing tour packages and advertisement.

Long An, which is becoming famous of getting foreign investments in present days, is located in a south part of Vietnam. The land of province is 4492㎢ and population is around 1.42milion. Chungnam-do made a partnership with Long An in June, 2005 and is having vigorous exchanges with them like governors’ visiting each other’s province, exchanging of youth organizations, inviting civil servants of Long An to Chungnam-do, and Baekje Cultural Festival and Geumsan International Ginseng Expo.

Chungnam-do is expecting to take advantages about this exchange and cooperation because Long An ranks on the second place among 13 cities near Mekong river area about getting investments from foreign companies and it’s close to Ho Chi Min city.