Zhongshan-Vietnam Economic and Trade Cooperation Fair Opens
The Zhongshan-Vietnam Economic and Trade Cooperation Fair opened at the Zhongshan Exhibition Center yesterday (March 28), attended by a 200-member delegation led by the Vietnamese minister of commerce and trade. Our journalist Lan Fuhua has the details:
Over the past 2 decades, trade between Guangdong and Vietnam has soared 100 times. Last year, in spite of the global financial crisis, bilateral trade still recorded a year-on-year increase of 35%. A representative of the Vietnamese delegation said she is confident in the two sides' cooperation perspective thanks to the Sino-ASEAN free trade zone. 
" The Chinese market is a huge market with great potential. I am very confident."

photo from: zsdp.gov.cn

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