Representatives from twenty businesses from Kansai, Japan have paid a three-day visit to Ho Chi Minh City in an effort to seek business opportunities in the country’s largest city.

In a meeting with Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan yesterday, Takeo Obayashi, head of the delegation and also Chairman of the Obayashi Corp., said that the Japanese businesses wanted to work with the city in the field of human resource training and urban development planning.

Chairman Quan stressed that Ho Chi Minh City is in great need of good human resources as it is shifting to hi-tech industries, adding that the urban planning and infrastructure in the city are still poor.

As a result, boosting the development of infrastructure for economic growth is a top priority, in which the city is calling for investment, he said.

The municipal authorities are willing to create favourable conditions for the Japanese investors, affirmed Chairman Quan.

He also lauded efforts Obayashi has made in the East-West Corridor project, which includes the building of the Thu Thiem tunnel across the Saigon river. The tunnel is the first of its kind in Vietnam and the largest ever in Southeast Asia. (VNA)