Government News 2/3President Tran Dai Quang together with commercial counsellors and chiefs of Vietnamese commercial offices overseasPresident Tran Dai Quang lauded external economic activities and trade promotion abroad during a meeting in Hanoi on March 1 with 45 commercial counsellors and chiefs of Vietnamese commercial offices overseas. According to him, the Vietnamese commercial offices abroad have helped step up exports, especially typical farm produce and fruits, towards bringing Vietnamese goods to global distribution chains and marketing trademarks of Vietnamese goods abroad. Thus, he urged economic restructuring, increasing labour productivity, attracting more foreign investment, improving domestic production efficiency and better Government policies in socio-economic management in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. The leader also commented on exports in February, which stood at some 13.4 billion USD, raising the total export value in the two months to 33.6 billion USD, up nearly 23 percent year-on-year. He recognised achievements in various fields from foreign direct investment disbursement, business establishment, social welfare and rural development to defence-security.