– On the morning of September 29, at the Vietnam - Czech Republic Friendship Labor Cultural Palace, the Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board organized a Forum to connect businesses [...]
– On the morning of September 29, at the Vietnam - Czech Republic Friendship Labor Cultural Palace, the Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board organized a Forum to connect supporting businesses and foreign investment (FDI) businesses in Hai Phong city in 2023.
Comrade Le Trung Kien, Member of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee, Head of the Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board chaired the Forum. Attending were Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Duc Tho and leaders of relevant departments, branches and units.
Forum View.
The forum was organized to introduce and promote the image and achievements of Hai Phong city's industrial development. At the same time, create a bridge for supporting businesses, investors, and manufacturers in the city to have opportunities to promote product brands, connect, exchange experiences, and cooperate in business with FDI enterprises in the city.
Participating in the Forum were more than 200 organizations and businesses including foreign invested enterprises operating in industrial production, domestic enterprises operating in the field of supporting industries, service provision and a number of universities in the city.
Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Duc Tho spoke at the Forum.
In his opening speech of the Forum, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Duc Tho stated that the Forum is an effective initiative and is even more meaningful when held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board. The forum will be a connection activity with practical significance for domestic businesses and foreign investors to openly discuss each other's needs, potentials and advantages, on that basis to identify new investment opportunities, have plans and measures to promote cooperation for the benefit of the businesses themselves and also for the city's socio-economic development. This is also an opportunity for industrial enterprises to support and provide services and training... in the country to learn experience in management, operation and innovation.Developing production and business of foreign-invested enterprises, connecting buying/selling needs with the goal of participating in the global supply chain of FDI "giants". At the same time, promote technology transfer cooperation between businesses in the future.
Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee requested investors and FDI enterprises in the city to continue expanding production and business activities, maintain positive business results, and ensure jobs for workers. At the same time, the business community is requested to accompany the city in investment promotion activities, attracting other businesses to invest in the city. Continuing and promoting the achieved results, the Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee believes that Hai Phong city and the business community will develop together and achieve more achievements in the future.
Comrade Le Trung Kien, Head of Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board, spoke at the Forum.
Speaking at the Forum, Mr. Le Trung Kien, Head of the Management Board of Hai Phong Economic Zone, acknowledged and appreciated the contributions of foreign investment (FDI) enterprises to the city's socio-economic development. At the same time, he emphasized that FDI enterprises in the city need to continue to promote cooperation and connection with domestic supporting manufacturing enterprises, increase information exchange on the ability to provide goods and services for FDI enterprises, increase exchange and connect buying/selling needs, and business cooperation between enterprises. From there, it contributes to forming a chain of links between FDI enterprises and domestic supporting industry enterprises with the goal of building and forming economic systems.Production in Hai Phong is part of the global supply chain and contributes to the development of the city's supporting industries.
Businesses speaking at the Forum.
In the context of global economic integration, Hai Phong increasingly affirms its position as a center for connecting, converging resources and spreading development. The growth rate of gross product in Hai Phong (GRDP) continuously reaches a high level: the period 2021 - 2022 reaches an average of 12.63%/year, ranking 2nd in the country, 1.5 times higher than the period 2011-2015 (7.08%/year) and 2 times the growth rate of the whole country (6.78%/year). The proportion of Hai Phong's GRDP in 2022 accounts for 3.83% of the country's GDP and 14.43% of the GDP of the Northern key economic region.
In particular, with 01 economic zone with an area of 22,540 hectares established in 2008 and 14 industrial parks established with a total area of 6,126 hectares, the average occupancy rate is about 63.5%; To date, it has attracted more than 39 billion USD (including 501 FDI projects with a total investment capital of 25.72 billion USD and 217 domestic projects with a total capital of 13.28 billion USD), ranking 6th in the country and 2nd in the North.
In the period from 2020 to present (4 years), the total registered investment capital reached about 16.8 billion USD, accounting for about 42.7% of the total registered investment capital in 30 years of attracting investment in economic zones and industrial parks. In the first 9 months of 2023, Hai Phong city has also exceeded the target of attracting foreign investment for the whole year with a total attracted capital of more than 3 billion USD.
The city's industrial parks and economic zones attract many large businesses, using modern technology, investing in the fields of processing and manufacturing with many large projects, which have important significance in the city's socio-economic development as well as create other spillover effects such as: Complex of projects of LG Group (Korea) with a total registered investment capital of over 9.2 billion USD; Vinfast automobile manufacturing complex with a total investment capital of 175,000 billion VND (about 7.6 billion USD) and many projects of about 1 billion USD from Regina Miracle International, Pegatron, Bridgestone...
Businesses sign a memorandum of understanding.
At the Forum, the signing ceremony of 7 memorandums of understanding between supporting enterprises and FDI enterprises took place.
As a bridge, connecting businesses, Hai Phong Economic Zone Management Board will continue to accompany businesses and organizations to effectively implement measures, plans, programs, and annual events to create and connect cooperative relationships between FDI enterprises and domestic supporting industry enterprises, to contribute to the formation of supply - production - consumption chain links between domestic and foreign invested enterprises. in Hai Phong city.
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