Cuba and Vietnam Open Joint Pharmaceutical Plant
Cuban President MIguel Diaz-Canel (R) tours the Genfarma plant in Vietnam, Aug. 2025. X/ @PresidenciaCuba
September 1, 2025 Hour: 10:20 am
They announce new agreements on agriculture, health and archives.
On Sunday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel inaugurated a Cuban-Vietnamese pharmaceutical plant “Genfarma,” which is dedicated to producing pharmaceutical and biological products.
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“It is moving to see this joint achievement. In less than a year, the high-tech medicine plant of the Cuban-Vietnamese joint venture Genfarma is already completed. It serves both peoples and aims to position Cuban pharmaceuticals in the competitive Asian market,” he said.
The plant is located west of Hanoi in the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park, an economic zone that functions as an innovation hub to attract research and development companies. Vietnamese Health Minister Dao Hong Lan congratulated both countries on creating Genfarma.
On Saturday, Diaz-Canel arrived in Hanoi to attend events marking the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and Vietnam’s National Day.
Previously, the Cuban leader announced that he had begun a tour of Vietnam, China and Laos, which he called “sister nations with which we share deep ties” and a history of collaboration and solidarity.
On Monday, Vietnamese Communist Party Secretary To Lam presented Diaz-Canel with a US$15 million donation raised in a solidarity campaign with Cuba that began in mid-August.
The two leaders held private talks and then presided over the signing of agreements on agriculture, health and archives. They also agreed on new business cooperation to boost rice production with the goal of progressively helping to guarantee food security in Cuba between 2025 and 2027.
Government communiques from Hanoi and Havana stressed that these relations are a “symbol of resistance against U.S. imperialism,” recalling that in 1960 Washington labeled both governments as communist enemies.
Last year, Diaz-Canel hosted To Lam in Havana to reaffirm the close political and economic ties between the two nations. Vietnam has become Cuba’s second-largest trading partner and the main Asia-Pacific investor on the island, with bilateral trade of about US$340 million in 2023.
Vietnam is a major supplier of rice consumed in Cuba, as well as chemicals, textiles and electronic components, while it mainly imports pharmaceuticals from the island — one of Cuba’s standout industries.
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Sources: EFE – CubaDebate
