Vietnam has 124 industrial parks

Investments in industrial parks (IPs), especially the state-owned sector’s IPs, are growing robustly, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Vietnam now has 124 IPs nationwide. These IPs have so far attracted over 3,500 projects with a total registered capital of more than 15 billion USD and 90,000 billion VND.

More than 2,000 of the projects have been put into operation. Disbursed capital totals over 7 billion USD and 50,000 billion VND.

The southern province of Dong Nai is the leading locality in the country in terms of operational IPs. 17 of its IPs attracted 80 foreign investment projects with a total registered capital of 210 million USD in the first 8 months of this year. 76 projects in operation have asked for permission to increase their capital by about 336 million USD, which increases the total capital of its IPs in the first eight months to 546 million USD.

Up to now, Dong Nai has drawn 718 projects to its IPs and export processing zones at a total investment capital of 7.22 billion USD, creating jobs for 217,000 laborers.

(Source: CPV)