Fostering a transparent investment and business environment

For the 2025-2030 period, building upon achieved results, Dong Nai province is set to further intensify intra-regional and inter-regional cooperation and linkages. The goal is to effectively mobilize and utilize all resources and significantly enhance the province's competitive capacity.

Recently, Dong Nai has welcomed numerous business delegations and representatives from foreign embassies in Vietnam seeking investment opportunities in the province. In the photo: Vo Tan Duc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Dong Nai Provincial People's Committee, welcoming the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Arab Emirates to Vietnam in June 2025.

Accordingly, the province will focus on targeted and prioritized development, leveraging its advantages as part of the Southern key economic region, and maximizing its internal resources, potential, and competitive strengths, ensuring synchronized and harmonious growth across all localities and regions within the province.

Leveraging its prime location

Dong Nai is strategically positioned within the Southern key economic region, connecting the Southeast, South Central Coast, Central Highlands, and Mekong Delta. It boasts a synchronized transport infrastructure system encompassing all five modes of transport, including road, air, rail, maritime, and inland waterway. Notably, the Long Thanh International Airport (LTA), Phuoc An Port, and numerous expressways connecting Dong Nai with other regions nationwide, which are being or will be implemented, are major magnets for the province. In terms of cross-border trade, Dong Nai shares a 258.939 km border with the Kingdom of Cambodia, and that the Hoa Lu Border Gate Economic Zone is attracting businesses to invest in production and trade.

Beyond these inherent advantages, Dong Nai province has proactively planned 83 industrial parks, covering an area of over 36,700 hectares, establishing itself as a leading industrial development hub in the country. Dong Nai now holds immense potential to be exploited and developed into a modern center for industry, agriculture, logistics, and tourism in the Southern region and the nation. These are crucial foundations for the entire Party Organization, government, military, and people of Dong Nai to confidently enter a new era of development.

Kwon Tae Han, Deputy Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Ho Chi Minh City, once remarked during his visit to Dong Nai province: "As a prime location for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) nationwide, Dong Nai province is also equipped with comprehensive transport facilities, becoming a factor that promotes the province's development in logistics and smart industry. Specifically, many Korean investors are eagerly anticipating the operation of Long Thanh Airport and related infrastructure and transport projects, which will facilitate trade for investors coming to Dong Nai."

Sharing this view, Kume Kunihide, Chairman of the Japanese Business Association, affirmed: "Dong Nai possesses all the necessary factors to attract investment, especially the advantage of a five-mode transport infrastructure system. This will be a key strength for Dong Nai to develop economic sectors such as services, transportation, logistics, and urban areas. Recently, Japanese businesses have maintained close coordination with the Management Board of Industrial and Economic Zones of Dong Nai province, the Regional XVIII Customs Sub-department, and the Dong Nai Tax Department. Notably, the provincial leadership consistently organizes annual meetings and dialogues with enterprises, directly listening and promptly responding to issues, thereby creating favorable conditions for businesses to invest and develop production and trade."

"Dong Nai province is ready to coordinate, share information on cooperation and investment opportunities, and hopes to receive support and connectivity to build an effective and sustainable friendship and cooperation relationship between Dong Nai province and investors."

 VO TAN DUC, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee

Creating an investment attraction environment

Vietnam has undergone nearly 40 years of renovation. To date, the country has achieved significant and important accomplishments, with its international standing and prestige continuously improving. Alongside the nation, Dong Nai is implementing strategic, revolutionary decisions that pose new, higher demands. This marks a new turning point and a historic opportunity in the development era of the nation.

Based on achieved results, for the 2025-2030 period, Dong Nai has set numerous socio-economic development targets. Economically, Dong Nai aims for an average GRDP growth rate of 10% per year or higher; with the structure of industry and construction sectors accounting for 60-64%; trade and services sector making up 25-28%; and an average annual state budget revenue expected to reach a growth rate of 10-12%...

It is forecasted that in the coming years, the world will undergo complex shifts towards multi-polarity, multi-center, multi-layered, and strong segmentation. The fourth industrial revolution will continue to develop robustly, impacting all sectors. The Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions will remain dynamic centers of development but also major areas for strategic competition among great powers, with epoch-making changes.

Based on these assessments, the Dong Nai Provincial Party Executive Committee affirms its commitment to promoting prioritized and focused development, capitalizing on the advantages of the Southern key economic region, and the province's internal resources, potential, and competitive strengths, ensuring synchronization and harmony among local and regional areas; restructuring the provincial development space to create new momentum, ensuring the goal of double-digit growth, including: the Southern urban-industrial zone; the Northern industrial-urban zone; and the Northeastern agricultural-ecological-tourism zone.

Furthermore, Dong Nai will continue to promote the development of the digital economy, green economy, circular economy, sharing economy, and knowledge economy; taking the lead in developing aviation economy, high-tech industry, high-tech agriculture, logistics centers, science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation. Economic development must go hand in hand with cultural and social development, environmental protection, improving the material and spiritual lives of the people; firmly securing national defense and security, social order and safety, maintaining border sovereignty, and strengthening foreign relations and international integration... striving to meet the fundamental standards of a Centrally-governed city by 2030.

Dong Nai is shifting its industrial structure towards an ecological and high-tech orientation. Simultaneously, it is developing processing, mechanical engineering, supporting, and new technology industries. The province will invest in and develop new industrial parks and clusters in line with planning; encouraging the conversion of existing industrial parks towards a green, ecological model. It will coordinate efforts in the construction of the Nuclear Science and Technology Research Center in the province. Moving forward, the province will proactively promote, research, and propose mechanisms for coordinating and connecting internal and inter-regional linkage activities, creating a unified and modern economic space.

In parallel, Dong Nai is focusing its economic development on key urban areas, dynamic axes, and new spatial zones to create a ripple effect. Concurrently, it will effectively mobilize, allocate, and utilize all resources, emphasizing public-private partnerships based on public investment driving and activating non-state resources, maximizing the province's potential and advantages.

With the motto "The government accompanies businesses” in meetings with partners and investors from countries and territories, Vo Tan Duc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, consistently emphasized: "Dong Nai welcomes and creates the most favorable conditions for international investors, especially those with strengths in high technology, energy, logistics, smart cities, finance - banking, and education - training." The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee expressed his hope that Dong Nai will have more substantive exchanges, opening up specific and effective cooperation orientations between Dong Nai province and its partners.

Dong Nai currently has attracted investment from 51 countries and territories, with nearly 2,200 foreign-invested projects. The total registered foreign investment capital in Dong Nai exceeds $41 billion.

By Ngoc Lien – Translated by M.Nguyet, Thu Ha