Hanoi(VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has delivered Vietnam’s strong message,aspiration, and determination to become a “country of renovation and creativity”and an economy with globally extensive connectivity when engaging in everyactivity of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2019 in Davos, Switzerland.

He participated in 37 activities where he and heads of State and Governmentleaders of 50 countries and executives from leading groups around the globediscussed and dialogued matters relating to the forum’s theme “Globalization4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth IndustrialRevolution”.

PM Phuc said the Fourth Industrial Revolution is “knocking” on every enterpriseand bringing profound changes that no country can be an outsider, and deliveredVietnam’s wish to become one of the passengers at the forefront of the Industry4.0 train, and enthusiastically work with other countries to build a wealthyworld.

He presented twoinitiatives with the one on establishing an open public-private partnershipforum on climate change response and marine ecological environment protectionand the other on WEF’s coordination with partners to study and push for theestablishment of a global network to share sea and ocean data.

In Davos, PM Phuc and WEF President Borge Brende had a dialogue themed “Vietnamand the World”, which is the first-ever event on Vietnam held the WEF.

Through thedialogue, PM Phuc conveyed strong messages about Vietnam’s development andinternational integration, asserting that in the current circumstance, Vietnamhas maintained an economic growth and socio-political stability thatdemonstrates itself a reliable destination for foreign investors coming to dobusiness.

He asserted the Vietnamese Government supports breakthrough business ideas andmodels, in particular creative and renovation values, startup spirit, andprogressive trends that bring in benefits and conveniences for people at his meetingsand dialogues with executives of multinational groups and leading businesses,such as GE, Total, Siemens, Pepsico, Sumitomo, Procter & Gamble, Nokia, andmore. He called on international businesses to come to Vietnam and produce 4.0products in the country.

The executives ofleading groups said they acknowledged the Vietnamese Government’s efforts inimproving the business environment and showed their support for the EuropeanUnion-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).

During the trip, Vietnam and the WEF signed three cooperation agreements, withthe one on building a 4.0 Centre in Vietnam, which will be connected with otherWEF’s 4.0 Centres around the world.

As the first multilateral diplomatic event of Party and State leaders in 2019,PM Phuc’s WEF Davos 2019 trip from January 22-25 was a success in the spheresof politics, external relations and economics.

The trip reflected Vietnam’s vision and determination in renovation andintegration, raising her role and position while garnering interests from theinternational business community in expanding cooperation and investment withVietnam, and kick-starting a year of pro-active, creative and efficientdiplomatic events in service of the national development.

The WEF was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and isheadquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It now engages the foremost political,business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industryagendas. Vietnam joined the forum in 1989.-VNA