
Hanoi (VNA) – With sound partnerships with Muslim-majority nations, the Halal business will turn into an necessary subject of cooperation, serving to additional promote Vietnam’s substantive ties with such companions and contribute to widespread improvement and prosperity, stated former Deputy International Minister Pham Quang Hieu.
Hieu, who’s now Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan, made the comment throughout a latest interview granted to the press in regards to the implementation of the plan on enhancing worldwide cooperation to develop the Halal business of Vietnam by 2030.
The Ministry of International Affairs coordinated with different ministries and sectors in addition to consulted home and worldwide consultants, Vietnam’s abroad consultant companies, localities and companies to make the plan, which was permitted by the Prime Minister on February 14.
Hieu stated that is the primary plan to stipulate national-level orientations for mobilising worldwide assets for constructing and creating the Halal business in a methodological, skilled, and complete method.
It additionally arrange a brand new path for implementing financial diplomacy, tapping into the extremely potential international Halal market, and creating a brand new impetus for sustainable financial improvement, particularly when conventional markets of Vietnam are grappling with difficulties resulting from inflation and financial recession.
In that context, diversifying export markets by exploring new ones is taken into account the “golden key” to bolstering export and contributing extra to nationwide financial improvement.
Moreover, the plan implementation will assist additional intensify Vietnam’s relations with giant Halal product consuming nations corresponding to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia, thereby contributing to elevating the function and stature of Vietnam and its enterprises within the international Halal market, the official famous.

He went on to say that to Vietnam, alternatives within the international Halal market are appreciable as this market had some 1.94 billion folks in 2022, or almost one-fourth of the world inhabitants and nonetheless rising.
Its worth stood at 7 trillion USD final yr and is anticipated to achieve about 10 trillion USD by 2028. Halal merchandise are consumed worldwide, from Muslim to non-Muslim nations.
Spending on these merchandise has additionally been on the rise as a result of they meet many standards for meals security, high quality, and environmental safety. As well as, a lot of the largest Halal product manufacturing nations are non-Muslim.
A variety of Halal product consuming or exporting nations such because the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Malaysia have additionally proven curiosity in and want to enhance cooperation with Vietnam in creating the Hala business right here.
Vietnam additionally holds quite a few supreme circumstances for creating this business, together with a beneficial geographical location, strengths in agriculture, meals, tourism, and companies, together with intensive and intensive financial integration into the world by way of its participation in lots of main regional financial connections, together with new-generation free commerce agreements. The Authorities has additionally paid nice consideration to aiding enterprises to discover and successfully have interaction within the international Halal market, based on Hieu.
The official added by becoming a member of the worldwide Halal market, Vietnamese enterprises may have an opportunity to develop tourism, bolster the abroad cargo of the merchandise they’re sturdy in, and entice overseas funding to the nation. They’ll additionally enhance their capability, competitiveness, and human assets high quality whereas additional equipping themselves with manufacturing and transportation applied sciences assembly Halal requirements./.
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