On behalf of Thai Binh province, there were comrades: Dang Van Giang, member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Lai Van Hoan, member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Do Van Ve, Chairman of the Thai Binh Provincial Business Association and a number of leaders of relevant departments and branches.

Also attending the Conference were comrades: Do Quoc Hung, Director of the Asia - Africa Market Department; Nguyen Tuan Hai, Head of the International Relations Department, Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI).

On the Bangladesh side, there were the participation of Mr. Lutfor Rahman, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Vietnam and Mr. Ashraf Ahmed, President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh.

At the Conference, the leaders of Thai Binh province emphasized: "The Thai Binh-Bangladesh Business Connection Forum" is of great significance, a good opportunity to introduce and promote the image of Thai Binh land and people to the neighboring country; it is also an opportunity for Thai Binh province's businesses to meet, seek investment and business opportunities, and connect with Bangladeshi businesses.

With the right policy, open policies, dynamism and aspirations for provincial development of the leaders and provincial authorities, Thai Binh province has attracted the attention of domestic and foreign investors, especially FDI capital. Up to now, Thai Binh province has 165 FDI ​​projects, with a total registered investment capital of about 5.2 billion USD. The Economic Zone alone has 98 projects, with a total investment capital of 4.5 billion USD, accounting for 87% of the province's FDI.

Thai Binh province is ready to welcome and commit to providing maximum support in all aspects with policies, legal procedures for investment and business, import and export of goods, customs procedures; as well as ensuring the most stable and favorable investment, production and business environment conditions for investors operating in the province; ready to listen and promptly resolve difficulties for investors, meeting all essential conditions of organizations and individuals.

Mr. Do Van Ve, Chairman of the Thai Binh Provincial Business Association, said that the association has 15 member organizations, with nearly 10,000 businesses. The Thai Binh Provincial Business Association hopes that the authorities at all levels, central and local agencies and departments, especially the Bangladesh Embassy in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangladesh and the two countries' Ministries of Industry and Trade, will continue to create favorable conditions in all aspects, first of all, legal connections and information sharing for businesses of the two countries to learn and connect for trade.

Sharing about the potential of economic and trade relations between Vietnam and Bangladesh, Mr. Do Quoc Hung, Director of the Asia-Africa Market Department, said that 51 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the traditional friendship between the two countries continues to be strengthened and developed. Currently, Bangladesh is Vietnam's second largest trading partner in South Asia and is a new, potential market with great purchasing power. Promoting trade cooperation with the Bangladesh market will open up many opportunities for export goods of Vietnamese enterprises, especially small and medium enterprises.

Particularly for Thai Binh province, not only does it have advantages in terms of location and traffic connections, the locality also has a large, multi-industry business community, which is suitable for cooperation with Bangladeshi businesses. To take advantage of opportunities and promote trade cooperation between Vietnam and Bangladesh, Director Do Quoc Hung said that Vietnamese and Bangladeshi businesses need to continue to proactively research and understand the content of existing agreements between the two countries as a basis and take advantage of incentives from these agreements for their business activities. Businesses need to proactively and actively participate in giving opinions, raising difficulties, obstacles, and issues in bilateral trade so that the management agencies of both sides can promptly resolve them.

Expressing his delight at the socio-economic development results that Vietnam in general and Thai Binh in particular have achieved in recent times, Ambassador Lutfor Rahman and Chairman of DCCI said: Bangladesh is the intersection between South Asia and Southeast Asia, while Vietnam is the center of trade and investment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. The two countries have a long-standing bilateral partnership including Government-to-Government and business-to-business relations. Through this forum, Bangladesh hopes to call on Vietnamese investors in general and Thai Binh in particular to promote investment in Bangladesh because this country always has the most competitive and impressive investment regulations in South Asia with diverse financial and non-financial benefits as well as a favorable legal environment for foreign investment.

Within the framework of the forum, businesses of the two countries exchanged, connected and searched for import-export markets and learned and exchanged experiences in production and business activities./.