Provincial leader receives the Ambassador of Finland

21/11/2019 10:23

(BNP) – In the afternoon of November 20th, Mrs. Nguyen Huong Giang, Chairwoman of the Provincial People’s Committee received and worked with Mr. Kari Kahiluoto, Ambassador of the Republic of Finland in Vietnam.

Chairwoman Nguyen Huong Giang gives gift to Mr. Kari Kahiluoto.

At the meeting, Mr. Kari Kahiluoto said that Finland has cooperated with Vietnam in general and Bac Ninh in particular in some fields, especially in the field of waste treatment. With its role, the Embassy of Finland in Vietnam has actively connected and supported enterprises of Finland to carry out projects in Vietnam, among which, the construction of hi-tech waste-to-energy incineration plant in Que Vo district, Bac Ninh province was invested by Thang Long Energy Environment Joint Stock Company. This is the first Waste-to-energy incineration plant in Vietnam using technology of Finland, promising to provide the best services to Bac Ninh province and as a bright spot in solid waste treatment in Vietnam.

The ambassador desired Bac Ninh province’s leader to continue supporting and creating maximum conditions for the project to be completed and put into operation soon.

At the reception, Chairwoman of Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Huong Giang emphasized that in recent years, Bac Ninh is now one of the fastest-growing localities with many indicators in the top of the country such as the scale of the economy, the value of industrial production, FDI attraction, export turnover, per capita income ... Currently, Bac Ninh has 16 integrated industrial zones, which are eligible to become industrial province towards modernization. Although Bac Ninh has the smallest area of ​​the country, however, Bac Ninh is the 21st most populous locality in the country and the 6th Red River Delta region with nearly 1.4 million people (according to the latest statistics in 2019), especially attracting many laborers from other provinces come to live and work.

The Chairwoman thanked Finland for supporting Bac Ninh in the construction of hi-tech waste-to-energy incineration plant in Que Vo district. Bac Ninh province would facilitate the project to accelerate, complete and put into operation soon, contributing to solving the problem of domestic waste, helping Bac Ninh develop sustainably./.