The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will focus to support Vietnam in three areas, namely medicine, healthcare, and infrastructure, Chief Representative of the JICA Vietnam Office Shimizu Akira told Young Intellect. Amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), JICA still carries on with the implementation of several projects, notably the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro and the opening to traffic of the Mai Dich-Nam Thang Long section of Hanoi’s ring road 3. Vietnam has many potentials and prospects to attract investors from Japan, proven by the fact that the number of members of Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (JCCI) has doubled to 2,000 compared with ten years ago, Mr. Akira noted. As the plague has fastened the movement of Japanese firms out of China, Vietnam had better promote the training of human resources to take advantage of this wave, the official said, citing the demand for high-skilled laborers of Japanese entrepreneurs. He added that the Southeast Asian country needs to expand value chain in the agriculture sector as the epidemic has profoundly changed the production and marketing of agricultural products. (CafeF, ToQuoc)
