Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and delegates in front of a board listing Meta's important partners and outstanding cooperation activities in Vietnam. Photo: VGP

On the occasion of attending the High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and bilateral activities in the US, on September 18 local time, in Silicon Valley (California), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and worked with Meta Platforms, the Government Newspaper reported.

At the meeting, Mr. Joel Kaplan - Vice President of Meta in charge of global public policy - emphasized that the Vietnamese market is very large and has potential.

Meta Vice President said that before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Meta had started producing some devices for the "virtual universe" metaverse in Vietnam. However, this was interrupted due to the pandemic and now the group wants to expand its investment in Vietnam, including continuing to produce metaverse devices for the coming years.

Regarding some major development orientations of Meta in the coming time, he affirmed that Meta will continue to strive to effectively implement cooperation activities with Vietnamese agencies, especially supporting Vietnamese small, medium and micro enterprises to approach customers and train human resources for digital transformation.

Listening to opinions, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the future of the Vietnam - US Comprehensive Strategic Partnership depends largely on the ability to realize the potential and opportunities between businesses of the two countries to develop investment and business in priority areas, including the contributions of US businesses in general and Meta in particular.

Based on the excellent political relationship between the two countries, the Prime Minister believes that cooperation activities with Meta will become increasingly effective and substantive, especially in key areas such as digital economy, artificial intelligence, digital content, innovation and digital transformation in enterprises...

The Prime Minister hopes that Meta will continue to provide Vietnam with more technological solutions and technology transfer; cooperate in finance to develop science and technology, innovation, and promote digital transformation; cooperate in improving governance capacity in areas where Meta has strengths; cooperate in training high-quality human resources; cooperate in preventing cybercrime, ensuring network safety and security, and increase the provision of positive and accurate information about the relationship between the two countries.

The Prime Minister welcomed Meta's continued cooperation with the Vietnam Innovation Center (NIC) as well as Vietnamese agencies and enterprises in the spirit of win-win, making the best use of the Vietnamese market with a population of 100 million, which is beneficial to the US, Vietnam and the relationship between the two countries.

Meta is a multinational technology corporation that owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services.

Meta is one of the most valuable companies in the world (2022 revenue of $116.6 billion) and among the ten most valuable listed corporations in the US.

It is considered one of the five largest information technology companies in the US, along with Google's parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.

Facebook is currently a very popular social network in Vietnam. The National Innovation Center (NIC) and Meta signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May 2022 in the US, witnessed by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, to promote innovation and digital transformation activities in Vietnam.

Laodong.vn