Exclusive interview with Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh: Vietnam and China’s textile industries complement each other’s advantages
The 9th World Textile Merchant Conference was held in Keqiao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh accepted an exclusive interview to discuss the prospects for cooperation in the textile industry.
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- Pham Thanh Binh, Ambassador of Vietnam to China, said at the Shaoxing World Textile Merchants Conference that the Vietnam-China textile industry has complementary advantages and broad space for cooperation.
- He welcomed China's expansion of investment in fabrics and supporting industries, and suggested that both parties deepen cooperation in areas such as technological innovation, green transformation and supply chain management to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
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The 9th World Textile Merchant Conference was held in Keqiao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. China Textile City is the world's largest textile distribution center.
China News Service, Shaoxing, November 7 (Xiang Jing) "Vietnam and China have complementary advantages in the textile field, and there is very broad space for cooperation. We welcome Chinese investors to Vietnam to expand high-quality investment in the field of fabrics and supporting industries." At the 2026 Ninth World Textile Merchant Conference held in Keqiao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang recently, Vietnam's Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh said in an exclusive interview.
Fan Qingping said that the current global industrial and supply chains are undergoing profound adjustments, which will have a profound impact on the textile industry in particular. Vietnam has obvious advantages in garment manufacturing, while China's textile industry chain is complete. In this context, textile industry associations and enterprises in Vietnam and China should strengthen docking and cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
Fan Qingping believes that the two parties can promote cooperation in technological innovation and digital transformation, further deepen collaboration in new material research and development, supply chain management and other fields, and at the same time vigorously promote green transformation and circular economy development, focusing on energy conservation, sewage treatment, raw material recycling and other directions.
During the conference, Fan Qingping also visited the China Textile City in Keqiao. China Textile City is the world's largest textile distribution center, with about a quarter of the world's fabrics traded here every year. Fan Qingping said that this was his first visit to Keqiao after five years. He saw that the transformation and upgrading of the local textile industry had achieved remarkable results, especially in terms of technology application, innovation-driven and green development.
"For Vietnam, Keqiao is a partner with great potential in the fields of trade, investment and technical cooperation. We hope that the cooperation between the two parties can expand from single fabric trade to joint research and development, investment and production, talent training and other diverse fields, relying on their respective advantages to better meet market demand." Fan Qingping said.
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