The potential of the export of Vietnamese agro-forestry-fishery products to China was highlighted at a conference held in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on Tuesday.

During the event, co-organised by the provincial People’s Committee and the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Asia-Africa Market Department, participants heard about China’s quarantine requirements on imported agro-forestry-fishery products.

To Ngoc Son, Deputy Head of the Asia-Africa Market Department, spoke highly about the significant growth in two-way trade between Viet Nam and China.

Viet Nam is now China’s largest trade partner in the ASEAN, while China is the second largest export market of Viet Nam, he said. Farm produces always make up a remarkable ratio in China’s imports from Viet Nam. Most Vietnamese agricultural exports to China, including fruit, cassava and dried seafood, are shipped via Thanh Thuy International Border Gate in Ha Giang Province. In 2017, nearly 350 enterprises had products shipped to China through the gate, up 200 from last year.

Over the past 11 months of this year, Viet Nam had exported US$6.98 billion worth of agro-forestry-fishery products, 40 per cent more than in the same period last year. — VNS