The Ministry of Planning and Investment has recently approved a budget of VND 20,000 billion to support investment promotion activities in 2009 under the National Investment Promotion Programme for 2009.

The programme includes a series of activities such as organising domestic and foreign investment promotion conferences, holding survey missions, training and enhancing capacity for investment promotion and building investment promotion document…

In the second quarter of 2009, the Ministry of Planning and Investment will hold domestic investment promotion conferences, focusing on infrastructure development projects, water drainage and waste processing, housing programme for needy people; conferences on investment attraction to the Central Highlands and the Vietnam and the investment promotion conference on tea processing.

In the third and fourth quarter of 2009, the investment promotion conferences on human resource development for the central coastal provinces and northern provinces of the central region will be organised. In addition, the programme will help southern and southwestern provinces to promote investment, trade, culture, sport and tourism. The Cuu Long river delta’s economic co-operation forum is also organised.

On the other hand, more than VND 9,000 billion from the National Investment Promotion Programme in 2008 will be added to 2009. This amount of money is to organise domestic and foreign investment promotion conferences and build project information, investment promotion document and websites in order to boost international co-operation and promote trade to foreign countries.

(Nhandan)

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