Mobilizing investment resources for urban development

Aiming to become a modern, sustainable, and high-growth urban center, Dong Nai City is stepping up efforts to attract investment while fostering a transparent and open business environment to mobilize capital, technology, talent, and management expertise from both domestic and international sources.

Workers at Vietnam Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. (Ho Nai Industrial Park (IP), Ho Nai ward) during working hours.

With strong strategic advantages in transport infrastructure, industry, logistics, and urban development, Dong Nai is well-positioned to attract investment and emerge as one of the Southeast region’s major growth poles. Accordingly, the city is intensifying efforts to attract investment into high-tech industries, urban development, and services, while positioning itself as an emerging hub for eco-tourism through incentive policies, a transparent investment climate, and convenient infrastructure.

Destination for high-quality FDI flows

Throughout 2025 and the first months of 2026, Dong Nai continued to demonstrate the appeal of a dynamic young city, ranking among the country’s leading localities in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) projects.

According to investors, Dong Nai’s strong appeal lies in its strategic location and comprehensive transport network, supported by all five major transport modes: air, road, rail, inland waterways, and maritime transport. Combined with synchronized infrastructure and expanding industrial land reserves, these advantages have strengthened the city’s ability to attract high-quality investment projects.

These investments have enhanced Dong Nai’s standing on the investment map, reinforcing the city’s reputation as a stable, transparent, and sustainability-focused investment destination.

Pham Viet Phuong, Deputy Head in charge of the City Economic and Industrial Zones Authority, said Dong Nai boasts the country’s largest industrial base, with 89 planned industrial parks. The presence of major and reputable investors creates a positive spillover effect, helping attract more global suppliers and supply-chain partners, thereby forming a modern industrial ecosystem. Over the long term, high-quality projects are expected to increase the economy’s added value, support a transition to a higher-skilled workforce, raise workers’ incomes, and reinforce Dong Nai’s competitiveness as an attractive investment destination.

Commenting on Dong Nai’s investment environment for FDI enterprises, Jung Jung Tae, the Republic of Korea Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, said the new Dong Nai City is likely to introduce more attractive investment mechanisms to create a professional and modern business environment. He noted that Dong Nai is poised to become an important growth pole for Vietnam and a strategic link in regional connectivity, helping shape a modern, sustainable logistics ecosystem and deeper integration into global supply chains.

Jung Jung Tae expressed hope that Dong Nai’s investment climate would continue improving to attract even greater interest from domestic and international investors, especially Korean businesses.

Removing bottlenecks, unlocking resources

The Resolution of the first Congress of the Dong Nai Provincial Party Committee (now Dong Nai City) for the 2025-2030 term identified eight key tasks for the coming period.

Key priorities include two major growth drivers: industrial development, centered on attracting next-generation strategic investors and expanding high-tech, green, and supporting industries; and service-sector growth, anchored by the Long Thanh International Airport urban ecosystem, including logistics, trade, aviation, and tourism services.

In line with these objectives, the city will focus on removing bottlenecks, unlocking all available resources, and ensuring stable, sustainable development.

It will maximize the spillover effects of Long Thanh International Airport in infrastructure investment, transport connectivity, urban expansion, and economic value creation. At the same time, Dong Nai will promote high-tech, environmentally friendly industrial development, restructure agriculture in line with advanced new rural development, and expand modern service sectors, particularly logistics, trade, tourism, and finance.

Dong Nai targets an average GRDP growth rate of 10-12% annually during the 2025-2030 period. By 2030, the city aims to achieve a GRDP of more than VND1.2 quadrillion at current prices, raise GRDP per capita to over VND250 million, and maintain the industrial-construction sector at 60-64% of the economic structure, while trade and services account for 25-28%. The digital economy is projected to contribute more than 30% of GRDP, while state budget revenue growth is expected to average 10-12% annually.

Alongside these priorities, the resolution outlines three strategic breakthroughs for the next stage.

The first focuses on improving workforce quality, particularly by building capable, action-oriented, and highly qualified leadership teams, while developing high-quality human resources across the high-tech industry, logistics, healthcare, education, science, and digital transformation.

The second breakthrough centers on mobilizing, allocating, and efficiently utilizing resources to develop an integrated and modern transport infrastructure network connecting urban, regional, and inter-regional areas. This endeavor also includes economic and technical infrastructure, such as logistics facilities, border economic zone infrastructure, green and eco-industrial parks, and initiatives to reduce carbon emissions. Urban, technological, digital, and social infrastructure, including healthcare and education, will also be advanced alongside underground spatial planning and the development of smart public transport.

The third priority is advancing science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation. The city will accelerate administrative reform, build a professional, modern, effective, and service-oriented administration, and promote the development of digital government, the digital economy, and the digital society.

Speaking at a meeting with the city’s outstanding enterprises, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee and Chairman of the City People’s Committee Nguyen Van Ut affirmed that Dong Nai is intensifying administrative reform, improving the investment and business environment, synchronously developing transport, logistics, and industrial park infrastructure, and promoting digital transformation, innovation, green growth, and circular economy development.

He stressed that improving the quality of human resources remains a key foundation for sustainable development. Viewing businesses as a key driver of economic growth, the city remains committed to building a facilitative, integrity-based, and action-oriented administration. The city will proactively listen to and promptly resolve difficulties faced by enterprises, creating a stable, transparent, and business-friendly investment climate for long-term investors.

By N. Lien – Translated by M.Nguyet, Minho