Making news

France’s Lyon city willing to help HCM City develop public transport

Paris, June 30 (VNA) – Leaders of Lyon have affirmed their w illingness to aid Ho Chi Minh City in the field in the coming time, as the French city has strength in constructing and managing public transport projects.
Vice Mayor of Lyon city Max Vincent and other officials of Lyon and the Rhone-Alpes region made the pledge during a recent meeting with Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan, who led a delegation on a working trip to France in the last week of June.

The host also said they will work to further all-round links with Vietnam’s southern metropolis in the future, especially in economics and culture.

Ho Chi Minh City has established twin relations with Lyon and the Rhone-Alpes region, with many effective cooperation projects in culture, education and health care in the past. Leaders of the two metropolises have also agreed to work c losely together on heritage preservation, urban planning and green growth, which are fields of mutual interest.
VNA/VNP

President Ho Chi Minhs experience in Soviet Union crucial to Vietnams revolution: Russian scholar

President Ho Chi Minh’s experience in Soviet Union crucial to Vietnam’s revolution: Russian scholar

The time when President Ho Chi Minh was in the Soviet Union (now Russia) provided him with invaluable experience in mass mobilisation and political organisation that later became instrumental in Vietnam’s revolutionary struggle, according to Dr Anatoly Sokolov from the Oriental Research Institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Top