Dong Nai ready to welcome an investment wave

In 2025, Dong Nai Province achieved impressive results in attracting investment capital, with domestic investment exceeding 173 trillion VND and foreign direct investment (FDI) reaching more than 3.3 billion USD, surpassing assigned targets and continuing to rank among the leading localities nationwide.

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Pham Viet Phuong, Deputy Head in charge of the Management Board of Industrial Parks and Economic Zones of the province.

Investment projects in Dong Nai are mainly concentrated in industrial parks (IPs) across the province. Pham Viet Phuong, Deputy Head in charge of the Management Board of Industrial Parks and Economic Zones (EZs) of the province, shared with reporters from Dong Nai Newspaper and Radio, Television the results of investment attraction, the quality of investment projects in Dong Nai over the past year, and the province’s orientations for investment attraction in the coming period.

* Could you elaborate on the results of investment attraction in Dong Nai’s industrial parks in 2025?

- In 2025, industrial parks in the province attracted more than 2.7 billion USD in FDI projects, exceeding 144% of the annual plan.

Newly attracted projects were concentrated in sectors such as semiconductor manufacturing, components, electrical equipment, textiles, garment production, and pharmaceuticals. There were no projects in industries classified as environmentally polluting or labor-intensive, and all met the province’s criteria for advanced technology. Several high-quality projects with substantial capital investment from reputable corporations were licensed, including the project by Quest Composite Technology Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Cayman Islands), with registered investment capital of nearly 40 million USD, and the Midwest Pets Vietnam Co., Ltd. factory project (Singapore) with investment capital of 27.8 million USD.

* In your view, what factors have enabled the province to retain investors amid intense competition from many localities developing industrial park infrastructure and offering attractive incentives?

- Dong Nai has a strategic location, synchronous infrastructure, and convenient interregional transport connectivity, and is gradually becoming a hub of the Southern Key Economic Region. Its outstanding advantage lies in the integrated infrastructure and logistics connectivity of the airport-seaport-international border gate system, including Long Thanh International Airport, Phuoc An Port, and Hoa Lu International Border Gate. Possessing all five modes of transport is a significant advantage that enables the province to connect easily at both domestic and international levels when investors come to Dong Nai.

Along with its locational advantages, the leadership of Dong Nai has consistently pursued sound industrial development orientations, such as promoting industrial parks in a green, modern, and sustainable direction, closely linked to the application of science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, and the circular economy. Additionally, established and operational industrial parks and economic zones boast well-developed, high-quality infrastructure that is seamlessly integrated with external infrastructure systems. Dong Nai continues to foster a transparent investment environment, with strong administrative reform, and remains ready to receive and resolve difficulties faced by investors and enterprises promptly.

With the provincial government's motto of “Accompanying enterprises,” the business community in industrial parks has effectively fulfilled its role in working alongside the authorities, maintaining stable production, expanding investment, and promoting a positive image of the investment environment. This endeavor has played an essential role in reinforcing Dong Nai’s position and appeal.

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* Many high-quality projects have flowed into Dong Nai in line with the province’s orientation. How do you assess the impact of attracting these projects on Dong Nai’s position and its ability to attract major economic groups?

- Attracting high-quality projects into Dong Nai’s industrial parks is of great significance to the province’s development strategy. First of all, these projects help enhance Dong Nai’s position and image on the investment map, affirming a stable, transparent investment environment with a sustainable, high-tech development orientation.

Moreover, the presence of large and reputable investors creates positive spillover effects, helping attract additional multinational corporations and enterprises within supply chains, thereby forming a modern industrial ecosystem.

In the long term, high-quality projects will increase the economic added value, promote a shift in the labor structure toward higher quality, raise workers’ incomes, and lay a solid foundation for Dong Nai to continue being an attractive and highly competitive investment destination.

* Dong Nai currently holds many advantages in transport infrastructure, and the development of industrial parks is being accelerated. Could you share information on land preparation, as well as potential industrial parks that Dong Nai has been developing to welcome investors in the near future?

- After the administrative merger, Dong Nai has become the province with the most significant industrial scale nationwide, with 81 planned industrial parks covering more than 39,600 hectares, one high-tech park covering 497 hectares, and the Hoa Lu Border Gate Economic Zone with an area of more than 25,800 hectares.

With advantages in transport infrastructure, especially when Long Thanh Airport comes into operation, industrial parks in areas surrounding the airport will become strategic zones prioritized for development. A series of large new industrial parks have been prepared and launched to serve the investment wave, including Bau Can – Tan Hiep (Phase 1), Long Duc 3, and Xuan Que – Song Nhan, covering a total area of thousands of hectares. In addition, other new industrial parks with significant land funds available for lease include Long Thanh High-Tech Industrial Park and Phuoc An Industrial Park. Notably, with the contribution of industrial parks in the northern part of the province after the merger (formerly Binh Phuoc Province), these areas are becoming the next “hot spots” for attracting large-scale projects.

These new industrial parks not only help address the long-standing shortage of clean industrial land but also create room for sustainable growth, improve the quality of FDI inflows, and shift the labor structure toward higher technical skills in Dong Nai in the coming period.

* Dong Nai faces competition from a number of provinces and cities nationwide in attracting FDI. What response scenarios has the province adopted to maintain its leading position?

- First, the province prioritizes the development of modern, synchronized infrastructure and digital transformation to create a favorable environment for investors. For industrial parks, efforts are being actively promoted to prepare clean industrial land, accelerate infrastructure investment, and develop new parks, especially those connected to Long Thanh Airport and the newly expanded northern Dong Nai area.

Second, Dong Nai is intensifying administrative reform, enhancing the “one-stop, on-site” mechanism, and accompanying investors throughout the project implementation process. Key measures include building e-government, establishing a Special Task Force to support investors, and holding regular dialogues between provincial leaders and enterprises.

Third, the province is fully leveraging Dong Nai’s outstanding advantages in investment attraction, positioning Dong Nai as a “green, sustainable industrial–logistics center” to enhance its competitiveness compared to other provinces and cities.

In addition, Dong Nai focuses on training and supplying high-quality human resources through linkages with training institutions and enterprises, promoting vocational training and technological skills to meet the requirements of new-generation FDI projects.

With a proactive, synchronized, and long-term approach, Dong Nai competes not through incentives but through the quality of governance, infrastructure, and human resources, thereby maintaining its attractiveness and position in FDI attraction.

* What are Dong Nai’s investment attraction goals for 2026 and the following years?

- In implementing Resolution No. 50-NQ/TW dated August 20, 2019 of the Politburo on orientations for improving institutions and policies and enhancing the quality and effectiveness of foreign investment cooperation through 2030, along with the Resolution of the First Provincial Party Congress of Dong Nai for the 2025–2030 term, Dong Nai has identified key tasks for achieving these goals in the industrial sector. These include developing industry with a core focus on attracting strategic, new-generation investors; filling existing industrial parks and continuing to attract investment into potential industrial parks; prioritizing high-tech, green, and supporting industries; and advancing industry in a high-tech, environmentally friendly direction.

To become a high-tech industrial and modern logistics center of the Southern Key Economic Region, in 2026 and the years to follow, Dong Nai will aim to establish a system of modern, green, and innovative industrial parks, contributing to the province’s enhanced competitiveness and sustainable development.

The Provincial Management Board of Industrial Parks and Economic Zones will continue to implement key tasks and solutions to promote production and the implementation of investment projects by enterprises operating in industrial parks and economic zones, contributing to achieving double-digit economic growth in 2026 and subsequent years.

  Thank you very much!

  By Ngoc Lien – Translated by Quynh Nhu, Minho