Dong Nai, known as the country’s “industrial capital”, is home to 57 operating industrial parks. However, alongside its potentials and advantages of an industrial province, the province also faces mounting challenges in balancing economic development with environmental protection, a decisive factor for balanced and sustainable growth.
In recent years, Dong Nai has made continuous efforts and achieved remarkable results in reconciling growth with the preservation of landscapes and natural resources. These efforts include planning for more rational land-use zoning; improving the investment climate to attract high-tech and environmentally friendly projects; developing synchronized wastewater treatment infrastructure across many industrial parks; and strengthening state environmental governance capacity. The province has also effectively implemented sustainable forest protection programmes, promoted biodiversity conservation, improved riverside landscapes, particularly along the Dong Nai River corridor and intensified environmental inspections and sanctions against violations. These initiatives have helped significantly improve environmental quality and raise public and business awareness about environmental protection.
Nevertheless, there remain several shortcomings and limitations in environmental protection efforts. In some areas, businesses still discharge untreated or substandard wastewater; solid household and industrial waste has not been thoroughly sorted, collected and treated; and localised air pollution persists around certain manufacturing zones and transport corridors during peak hours.
One of Dong Nai’s key development objectives in the 2025-2030 period is to advance the digital economy, green economy, circular economy, sharing economy and knowledge-based economy; ensuring economic growth goes hand in hand with cultural and social development, environmental protection and the improvement of people’s material and spiritual well-being. To ensure economic progress goes hand in hand with environmental protection, the province has outlined a series of strategic and comprehensive solutions.
First and foremost, Dong Nai will strengthen the management and the efficient, economical use of natural resources, protect the environment and proactively adapt to climate change. This includes managing and utilizing natural resources economically and efficiently, especially land, mineral, and water resources; improving the quality of land-use planning; aligning land price frameworks more closely with real market conditions; and accelerating compensation and support for resettlement, especially for key infrastructure projects.
Next, the province will also intensify inspections, monitoring and strict enforcement against violations in resource exploitation and environmental protection. It will promote waste sorting at source, improve solid waste collection and treatment networks, and modernise waste-processing technologies. Dong Nai also encourages investment in environmental protection and restoration services, eco-labelling and efficient energy use. Efforts to conserve biodiversity will go hand in hand with the development of protective and special-use forests toward a modern, sustainable forestry sector.
Ultimately, the success of Dong Nai’s strategy to align economic development with environmental protection hinges on the close cooperation among local authorities, businesses and citizens. When growth objectives are coupled with the responsibility of protecting natural resources, the province will not only maintain its position as a major economic driver of the region, but also build a sustainable living environment that enhances its attractiveness to high-quality investment.
By Thu Ngoc – Translated by M.Nguyet, Thu Ha
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