Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – Recently, a high-level delegation led by Vee Song Nam, Governor of Takeo Province, Cambodia, paid an official visit to An Giang Province, Vietnam, and extended New Year greetings to the Vietnamese side. During the visit, the two sides held bilateral talks and reached a high degree of consensus on deepening economic and trade cooperation, improving the level of cross-border trade facilitation, and helping to improve the livelihoods of residents in border areas.
During the talks, Governor Vee Song Nam and Chairman Ho Van Men of the An Giang Provincial People's Committee highly praised the long-standing tradition of friendship and solidarity between the two provinces. Both sides agreed to continue to consolidate good-neighborly relations and deepen practical cooperation in agriculture, trade, infrastructure construction, and other fields, ensuring that the fruits of cooperation truly benefit the people of both regions.
To remove obstacles to cross-border trade, the two sides held in-depth discussions on optimizing the import and export procedures for goods between the two provinces. Vee Song Nam hoped that An Giang Province would further simplify customs clearance procedures and provide more access convenience for high-quality products from Takeo Province, such as agricultural products, to enter the Vietnamese market. Hu Wenmen responded positively, promising to create better conditions for Cambodian goods imports and proposing that Cambodia assist in exporting Vietnamese products to Cambodia, achieving a balanced and win-win bilateral trade through resource complementarity.
Statistical data shows that the total bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Vietnam reached US$11.33 billion in 2025, an increase of 11.7% compared to 2024, highlighting the strong potential for economic and trade investment cooperation between the two countries.
Both sides ultimately reached a consensus to accelerate the implementation of the "New Cooperation Mechanism for Cambodia-Vietnam Economic Connectivity to 2035." This mechanism will become an important support for the economic integration of the two provinces and the two countries over the next decade, injecting new impetus into regional prosperity and development by deepening industrial chain alignment and infrastructure connectivity.
