According to the report from the City People's Committee, in August 2026, the city's FDI attraction is estimated to reach 176.57 million USD, more than 11 times higher than the same period in 2025, exceeding the set target. Cumulatively over 8 months, the total attracted FDI is estimated at over 3.47 billion USD, 1.8 times higher than the same period, achieving 84.6% of the annual plan. Specifically, industrial parks (IPs) and economic zones (EZs) attracted an estimated 3.14 billion USD, 1.75 times higher than the same period in 2025, achieving 86.3% of the plan; areas outside IPs and EZs attracted an estimated 330.15 million USD, 2.61 times higher than the same period in 2025, exceeding the annual target of 300 million USD.
These results not only affirm Hai Phong's attractiveness but also reflect the effectiveness of the solutions implemented by the city recently. Along with completing planning and expanding development space based on synchronous infrastructure linked with leveraging geographical advantages, the city focuses on connecting industrial infrastructure with the seaport and logistics system. More importantly, these are efforts to innovate thinking, comprehensively improve the investment environment, and the decisive actions of the city along with its departments, agencies, and units.
According to the Hai Phong Economic Zone Authority, with the message "the success of businesses is also the success of the city," the city consistently directs decisive efforts to improve the investment and business environment, creating the most favorable conditions for businesses. To date, the time for administrative procedures has been cut by 50%; connections with businesses are maintained regularly and continuously, thereby promptly grasping and resolving difficulties and obstacles that arise; strengthening connections and supporting industrial infrastructure businesses to attract investment...
The effectiveness of these solutions is not only reflected in the number and scale of new projects but also in the fact that many investors currently operating effectively in Hai Phong continue to expand their scale and adjust to increase capital, including projects with an additional increase of over 100 million USD.
According to Mr. Yu Bo Yang, Deputy General Director of SanHua (Vietnam) Co., Ltd., Hai Phong has advantages in geographical location, seaport system, preferential policies, and a stable investment environment, creating a solid foundation for businesses to develop.
Mr. Park Hong Keun, General Director of LG Innotek Vietnam Co., Ltd., highly appreciates the city's support in resolving procedures, upgrading infrastructure, and improving investment policies, creating a favorable environment for businesses to develop with confidence.
Along with the quality of human resources and the sense of responsibility of employees, these are fundamental factors for LG Innotek to continue expanding production and decide to invest in a 1 billion USD semiconductor project in Hai Phong.
According to Dr. Vo Tri Thanh, Director of the Institute for Brand and Competition Strategy Research, former Deputy Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management Research, Hai Phong and foreign investors are jointly creating value. This mutually beneficial cooperative relationship is not only reflected in statistical indicators or financial results but also in confidence in the reform process, implementation capacity, and commitments, as well as the strong and long-term attachment of the foreign investor community to Hai Phong.
The FDI attraction results for the first 8 months create a favorable foundation for the city to continue accelerating in the remaining months of the year, aiming to complete the set targets early, thereby supplementing resources to successfully achieve the 2026 growth objectives.
To achieve the FDI attraction targets, the City People's Committee requires departments, agencies, and units to continue promoting investment attraction, while focusing on removing "bottlenecks" and preparing well for infrastructure, land, procedures, human resources, etc., to facilitate investors in implementing projects.
To concretize the city's directives, the Hai Phong Economic Zone Authority continues to promote investment promotion and attraction; strengthen support for investors in carrying out administrative procedures; review and develop specific implementation plans for memoranda of understanding and cooperation agreements signed with investors, to soon transform them into specific investment projects. Concurrently, effectively operate the Free Trade Zone, promote advertising, implement specific preferential mechanisms; develop and implement plans for the development of specialized economic zones, effectively implement the planning of the Southern coastal economic zone, and develop a proposal for the establishment of the Northern Hai Phong economic zone.
In addition, urge and accelerate the progress of infrastructure construction in industrial parks, create land to attract investment; coordinate with departments, agencies, and localities to resolve difficulties and obstacles in land clearance for industrial parks and economic zones, ensuring the handover of clean land on schedule as committed to investors... Focus on solutions to attract labor, develop housing for workers; continue to promote administrative reform, digital transformation, improve the quality of service to investors; research a "green channel" mechanism in resolving administrative procedures in the investment sector...
Notably, at the regular meeting of the City People's Committee in August, Mr. Pham Van Thep, Head of the Hai Phong Economic Zone Authority, stated that there are currently 3 large investors expected to invest in 3 new projects, each with a scale of approximately 100 million USD; along with several other investors proposing projects with a total scale of approximately 200 million USD. If implemented as planned, these projects will contribute to helping the city achieve its 2026 FDI attraction targets early.
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