Da Nang (VNA) – Chairman of the Da Nang cityPeople’s Committee Huynh Duc Tho has called on enterprises and investors bothat home and overseas to have open conversations with the city’s governmentabout investment cooperation opportunities.

The city is always willing to listen to and stand side byside with businesses, Tho said in a meeting to mark Vietnam Entrepreneurs’ Day(October 13).

According to the chairman, enterprises are a drivingforce of the economic growth amid the global integration; hence improving theircapacity continues to be the city’s key task.

Local authorities have provided all possible conditionsand support for companies and investors to do business in the city,particularly in terms of administrative reform, he noted.

The central city has organised a number ofgovernment-business meetings and carried out projects to support thedevelopment of startups by 2020, receiving positive responses from enterprisesand business associations.

Foreign companies contributed approximately 21 trillionVND, or about 39 percent, to the city’s Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP)and created nearly 70 percent of the local jobs last year.

Tho revealed that a business event gathering over 1,000leading businessmen and senior officials from Vietnam and other countries willbe held during the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week from November 6-11.-VNA