Prime Minister listens to Vietnamese people in New Zealand 'suggestion'

Wellington [New Zealand], March 11: Continuing his official visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spent most of yesterday (March 10) meeting with the Vietnamese community, including a group of Vietnamese scientists and technology experts in Auckland and expatriates in Wellington.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his ministers have really listened to many opinions and recommendations, frankly speaking as the Prime Minister said, "the opinions have suggested to me many new approaches".
What do Vietnamese people need when entering the world ?
During the Prime Minister's working session with a group of Vietnamese intellectuals and technology experts (VietTech New Zealand) last morning, founder Pham Dang Khoa (Director of CodeHQ Technology Group) said that the information technology industry in New Zealand is developing very strongly. "We realize this is an important opportunity to go into this field, contribute to the country's development and bridge the relationship between the two countries," Mr. Khoa said.
Mr. Pham Dinh Truc, creative strategic advisor of Neurofrog Company (Health IT), suggested that the Government pay attention to developing the medical technology industry. "Medical technology in New Zealand is spearhead, very important, dynamic and developing rapidly. They apply available materials to create advanced medical equipment," Mr. Truc said.
Ms. Le Hoai Thu, senior marketing expert at technology product supply and distribution company Ingram Micro New Zealand, contributes many solutions to improve the quality of Vietnam's human resources. As someone with experience in human resource recruitment, Ms. Hoai Thu believes that young Vietnamese people have good expertise but lack strategies, often being eliminated in the final round.
According to Ms. Thu, the reason is that Vietnamese people lack confidence and good professional knowledge but are rarely recruited into strategic positions. "At first, when I first came here to look for a job , I thought, if my boss says something, I just listen and follow it. Even if I have an idea, I don't dare to say it. That's very disadvantageous for me. Here, working is You have to have initiative, you have to speak out to be recognized," Ms. Thu said.
"It is recommended that the education sector equip students with more presentation and teamwork skills," Ms. Thu said.
Without an appointment, this recommendation was once again repeated by Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Huong (settled in New Zealand for 20 years, doing business in the beauty industry) to the Prime Minister during a meeting with overseas Vietnamese in Wellington in the afternoon. Ms. Huong pointed out the fact that Vietnamese people in general, and Vietnamese people coming to New Zealand in particular, have very standard qualifications and are good at their profession, but when they go abroad it is very difficult to find a job, the reason is that domestic training is lacking. Focusing on qualifications without paying attention to soft skills. "Training must follow foreign standards, not just follow our current scale," Ms. Huong said.
The Prime Minister very much agreed with these reflections, and said: "Mr. Son (Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son - Reporter ) pays attention to this, training must teach what people need, not what the school has, the program The program must be integrated, not just focusing on high qualifications but lacking skills."
Ms. Huynh Diem Thuy, Director of Goldenpine Company - a company with many trade promotion activities with Vietnam, shares many valuable experiences for Vietnamese businesses when wanting to do business with foreign markets in general and New Zealand market in particular. According to Ms. Thuy, New Zealand is a small market (with 5 million people) but has high requirements for quality and product diversity, but Vietnam's processed agricultural products are monotonous in design and poor. about the product. "When wanting to enter foreign markets, Vietnamese companies need to pay close attention to product conformity documents. Recently I worked with a large seafood canned company but when requesting certifications The product was not available, so the contract was not successful," Ms. Thuy gave as an example.
The Vietnam Trade Office in the New Zealand market also recommends that when accessing the market, Vietnamese businesses need to have a systematic, long-term strategy, and strictly comply with the strict regulations and standards of this market with the imported products, especially products related to food safety and quarantine testing to increase export turnover.
In addition, businesses must actively participate in trade promotion activities and programs (fairs, exhibitions) or trade programs to find partners and promote quality Vietnamese products in the market. school.
Committed to many policies for overseas Vietnamese
According to Vietnamese Ambassador to New Zealand Nguyen Van Trung, the Vietnamese community in New Zealand has about 11,000 people. In the community, associations have been established according to profession, field, area of ​​operation... Many Vietnamese people are successful in fields such as business, scientific research, working in many Vietnamese agencies and enterprises. New Zealand, especially someone who became a New Zealand parliamentarian.
Speaking to the community, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shared many enthusiastic and valuable opinions from dynamic, creative, and aspirational experiences in New Zealand. According to the Prime Minister, the delegates shared personal but highly general experiences, suggesting many notable directions and solutions in education, training, science and technology, innovation, and creativity. motivation.
Thinking that people are the most important factor and that people grow through learning and training, the Prime Minister highly appreciated the initiatives and positive activities of the Vietnamese community in New Zealand. The Prime Minister proposed promoting New Zealand agencies to recognize Vietnamese people in New Zealand as a minority community.
The Prime Minister affirmed that the Party and State always consider the Vietnamese community abroad as an inseparable part of the Vietnamese people, hoping that people will always be united and united, those who go first will help those who come after, Share life experiences and support newcomers in completing legal procedures.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Science and Technology to research and propose to competent authorities on science and technology awards for Vietnamese people abroad. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urgently develops a project and submits it to competent authorities to decide on organizing a forum for Vietnamese intellectuals and experts abroad in Vietnam.
The Ministries of Science - Technology, Education - Training, Planning - Investment set up online channels to receive opinions from the intellectual community and Vietnamese scientists abroad in various fields. manage.
Answering a question about the policy to attract talented people to work in the country, the Prime Minister said that the Government, relevant ministries and branches are trying to perfect the mechanism. What the Prime Minister desires most is that each person works hard to take care of themselves, their family, and society , thereby contributing to building their homeland.
The head of the Government also assigned the ministers to study proposals from overseas Vietnamese, such as introducing English into compulsory teaching from grade 1, simplifying visa procedures , linking training with New Zealand, and supporting incoming labor . here at work... "I will discuss the visa issue with the New Zealand Government on the basis of reciprocity, convenience for both sides and simplification of procedures for foreigners," the Prime Minister said.
When receiving Mr. Simon Bridges, Chairman of the Auckland Business Council, and leaders of some typical New Zealand businesses, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also left open the possibility of reopening the direct flight between Vietnam and New Zealand. According to the Prime Minister, with the current socio-economic recovery momentum, along with the travel needs of 11,000 Vietnamese people working, living, and studying in New Zealand and the need to travel to this beautiful country, In the near future, the two sides will have agreements to improve visa policies and the opportunity to reopen direct flights.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper