Italy’s Lombardy is targeting sustainable development, and it wants to cooperate with Vietnamese localities in general and Hanoi in particular in such fields as transport, smart city, bioenergy, green energy transition, education, personnel training and clean agriculture.

Vietnam is a priority partner and a strategic market of Lombardy, as its trade with Vietnam accounted for 40% of the total USD 6.2 billion worth of trade turnover between the two countries last year.