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Friday, February 19, 2021, 16:04 GMT+7
Nguyen Hoang Son (back row, first left) poses in a supplied photo taken with his companions along with bins on which they drew for the Green River project in Can Tho City, Vietnam.
Cai Rang Floating Market in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is the cleanest it has ever been thanks to a group of devoted young people.
As a Mekong Delta native, Nguyen Hoang Son, 21, a student at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, spent much of his childhood tagging along with his parents as they sold fruit from their boat at a local floating market.
HCM city: Over 25 billion VND invested in 40 startup projects
The projects are supported as innovative startups for 5 years, from 2016 to 2020, the Ho Chi Minh city Department of Science and Technology.
Photo for illustration. (Source: nld.com.vn)
Through a program of supporting innovative startups, many projects successfully called upon capital with price valuation increase from 1.5 to 1.8 fold after receiving support.
More than 2,500 projects were assisted to complete ideas, products, market, and financial connection. Over 200 international organizations from the US, New Zealand, Canada, England, Germany, Sweden, the Republic of Korea and Finland accompanied the city to support universities, institutes and incubators in innovation activities and technology transfer.