Cambodia and Vietnam are committed to increasing bilateral trade volume to US$20 billion

China News Service, Phnom Penh, October 9 (Yang Qiang, Zhang Yanlin) Cambodian Prime Minister Hong Manai said on the 9th local time that Cambodia and Vietnam have a solid foundation to continue to expand economic and commercial cooperation. Cambodia and Vietnam are working together to achieve the goal of increasing bilateral trade volume to 20 billion US dollars in the near future.

Hun Manai and Vietnamese Prime Minister Lim Hing jointly attended the opening ceremony of the Cambodia-Vietnam Business Forum in Phnom Penh that day and made the above remarks. The forum is held to deepen cooperation between the two countries in various fields such as trade, investment and tourism.

Economic and trade cooperation between Cambodia and Vietnam has maintained a positive growth momentum in recent years. Cambodian statistical reports show that the trade volume between Cambodia and Vietnam will reach US$7.8 billion in 2025; in the first nine months of 2026, the trade volume between the two countries will be close to US$6.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.7%.

Vietnamese statistics are higher than the above data. According to a report by Vietnam News Agency on the 9th, in 2025, bilateral trade volume between Vietnam and Cambodia will exceed 11.3 billion US dollars. In the first eight months of 2026, the total import and export volume between the two countries reached approximately US$8.7 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%. Up to now, Vietnam has a total of 223 investment projects in Cambodia, with a total registered capital of nearly US$3.4 billion.

At the invitation of Hong Manai, Liming Hin paid an official visit to Cambodia from the 9th to the 10th of this month. The two sides held a meeting on the 9th and jointly witnessed the signing of six cooperation documents, covering multiple fields such as educational exchanges, information security, and bilateral trade. (over)