Why Da Nang is a Place for Setting up Business?

 Da Nang has been creating flexible policies, good environments attracting foreign investors setting up company, building factory, and developing service business.

Da Nang is a social and economic center of central area of Vietnam with the role as the center of industry, trade and tourism and service. It is a seaport city, an important transport hub for the transit of domestic and international transportation. Presently, Da Nang has been rising as a comprehensive and sustainability developing city.

With the advantages of geographical location, people and nature, the leader of Da Nang is planning to build the city becoming a major tourist center of the country, developing tourism industry with entertainment centers and luxury resorts in Vietnam.

In practice, Da Nang has been reducing administrative procedures, creating favorable conditions for investors in obtaining certificate for investment. In the meantime, the city also supports investors understanding the information and maintaining direct dialogue mode with businesses leaders and managers in order to promptly assist any difficulties encountered by investors in the process of project implementation. Da Nang’s leaders are famous in being proactive in providing the latest information about the law in investment, especially information on the process of changing investment certificate… to facilitate the investment plan of the investors whom are investing in Da Nang. For investment projects in infrastructure construction using ODA capital, the city has been quickly implemented the clearance and compensation in time to hand over the project site to the investors as planned.

To ensure the tourism environment and sustainable development, the city focuses on attracting projects in high technology industry, supporting industry and services with high added value i.e. information technology, education, healthcare and logistics…, especially favouring clean and quality projects rather than large projects but are likely to cause environmental issues.

Along with economic development, Da Nang also has activities and measures for environmental protection by investing in building projects to protect and improve the environment such as: modernization the sewer and wastewater treatment system (JICA), building east-west economic corridor (ADB)… to ensure sustainable and long term development of the economy.

An important element for economic development is the local security. Da Nang has done a great job in maintaining public security in order to guarantee investors a stable and safe political, social environment for investors.

It can be seen that Da Nang converges suitable elements and really is a promising land for investors both domestic and international, to invest in entertainment, real estate, tourism, IT, healthcare, education services.

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Danang’s Target in 2020 is “The Year of Promoting Investment Attraction” December 9, 2019 // ANT Lawyers

 On December 04th, 2019 Da Nang city held the conference on the result of the socio-economic development in 2019 and the target of the city in 2020. The conference affirmed the situation of implementing the city’s political duties, ensuring some criteria for socio-economic development of the city. In 2019, the city has achieved some outstanding results such as: budget revenue exceeded the assigned estimate (estimated at VND 28.170 billion, reached 102,9% of the estimate, up 3,5%; attracted more than 3.696 billion dong of domestic investment and more than 658 million USD of foreign investment capital (newly granted investment certificates of 118 FDI projects with a total registered capital of 437,13 million USD, 8 times higher than the same period); Total tourist arrivals were estimated at 8.69 times, up 13.4%, revenue from tourism activities was estimated at 30.973 billion VND, up 16,7%. 

In the year, social order and safety were maintained, is considered by many investors and tourists to be a destination for investment and tourism. In 2020 is particularly important, the last year to implement the 5-year plan from 2016 to 2020 and the year of many political and cultural events. At this 19th Conference, the Conference agreed on the theme of 2020 as “The year of promoting investment attraction” with specific tasks to focus on implementing: promulgate new preferential policies of the city to attract investors; implement plans on improving the quality and efficiency of foreign investment cooperation; continue to improve infrastructure, expand high-tech zones, create land fund to call for investment; continue to remove obstacles in the planning, land management, human resources for businesses and investors. In 2020, the city will actively coordinate with ministries and branches to submit to the National Assembly for approval of the Resolution on Da Nang construction and development to 2030, with a vision to 2045; on that basis, submit to the Government for promulgation a decree on specific mechanisms and policies on city development.

In addition, with the goal of attracting foreign investors, the city hopes to receive more investors from many countries around the world to invest in high-tech and technology industries, biology, environmental protection projects, tourism development, etc. through setting up company, factory in Da Nang City. This is a great opportunity for international investors to seize the opportunity to invest in Da Nang today, in order to enjoy the incentives, as well as the highest investment efficiency in the future.

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Complete 1st Stage of the Information Technology Zone in Danang

 On January 6th 2020, the Prime Minister issued Decision no.27/QD-TTg on establishing the information technology zone in Danang – Stage 1, effective from January 6th 2020. Specifically, the Danang information technology (IT) zone – Stage 1 has an area of 131 hectares, located in Hoa Lien commune, Hoa Vang district, Danang city.

The Ministry of Information and Communications shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the ministries, branches, Danang People’s Committee and concerned units in guiding the implementation of the decision; The Ministry of Planning and Investment was assigned to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Information and Communications in, balancing the allocation of investment capital to support investment in and construction of infrastructure of Danang centralized IT Park according to law provisions.

Besides, the People’s Committee of Danang has 5 tasks including approving the organizational structure and operational regulations of the Danang central IT Management Group, then performing the state management function for the investment projects in the centralized IT zone, and prioritizing the allocation of development investment capital from the state budget for investment in infrastructure development connecting to Danang centralized IT Park – phase 1 and non-business social infrastructures in the area. Therefore, developing the plans and synchronously deploy solutions to attract foreign corporations and large domestic enterprises in the fields of IT, electronics and telecommunications to invest in Danang centralized IT Zone and set up company, apply for investment registration certificate. Finally, directing and organizing the levels of local governments and functional agencies of Danang city in cooperation with Danang IT Park development joint stock company to implement the construction, management to IT zone focus on Danang to develop in the fast and sustainable way.

Danang IT Park is entitled to preferential policies for centralized IT zone as stipulated in the Article 22 Decree no.154/2013/ND-CP to attract the investors to invest and set up business in Da Nang IP park, such as: Preferential corporate income tax for 15 years with tax exemption policy for the first 4 years, 5% for the next 9 years, 10% for the next 2 years and tax incentives after 15 years of operation is 20-22%. Moreover, exemption of import tax for imported goods to create fixed assets, raw materials, machinery and equipment that cannot be domestically produced to serve the production of IT products and IT services of enterprises; 50% reduction of payable personal income tax on income from salaries and wages of high-tech human resources working in IT. In addition, site clearance and infrastructure investment in Danang IT Park- stage 1 will be supported by government and local budgets in accordance with the law, master plan on development of centralized information technology zone approved by the Government. The Danang IT Park – stage 1 will also receive investment credit loans at Vietnam Development Bank for investment.

In the future, domestic and international investors need to update the progress when making investment in the IT sector as well as seizing the investment opportunity, to be able to enjoy the best incentives that Danang set for IT sector in the city with aim to develop a green city to attract the investment that need talents in IT.

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Danang city Meeting the First Korean Consul General in Central Region

 On December 16th, 2019, Danang City held a meeting with the new Korean Consul General Mr. Ahn Min Sik, the first Korean consul general in Central Region of Vietnam.

Currently, Danang is a city that attracts a large number of Korean people to travel, live and invest to set up company. Therefore, the establishment of the Korean General Consulate in Danang is an opportunity to further expand the friendly relationship between the two countries.

In addition, the representative of Danang city also expressed his desire to attract more Korean investors in such fields as tourism, high technology, information technology and other industries. And the city has also leveraged the strengths and advantages in socio-economic development of the city in recent years. The city also hopes that the establishment of a Korean General Consulate in Danang will contribute to boosting many investors from Korea into Danang and contribute to increasing the number of Korean tourists to the city.

Mr. Ahn Min – Sik’s important tasks during his mission was to promote the attraction of Korean investment into Central of Vietnam including Danang. At the same time, further promote cooperation on the field of tourism between the two countries. According to ambassador Mr. Ahn Min – Sik, nowadays, many Korean people have come to Vietnam to travel, and his task is to make efforts for Korean tourists to return to Vietnam for the second and third time and many more after that.

Mr. Ahn Min – Sik affirmed that he would always accompany the city, making efforts for the development of Danang and South Korean localities, as well as for the good friendship between the two countries. The parties hope to have more opportunities to cooperate with each other, in all fields such as tourism, investment, culture, education, … to confirm the friendly relationship between Vietnam and South Korea in the near future.

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Danang To Cooperate With the US Enterprises to Build an IT Center

 On Oct 10th, 2019 representatives of Danang city met the US business delegation including Hayward Quartz Technology Inc., Westcoast Precision, Inc., Majestic Beauty Supplies, Inc., Lee’s Sandwiches International, Inc., Hung Phat USA. These are businesses in the field of manufacturing, processing diamonds and gold, silver and gems; production and distribution of beauty accessories, cosmetics; manufacturing and producing metal and hardware, supplying customized high-quality spare parts and semiconductor devices for the medical and biotechnology equipment industry; Manufacturing and distributing semiconductor equipment in the United States, whom shown interest to set up business and expand operation to Vietnam.

Representatives of US enterprises affirmed that Danang City is a potential destination for businesses in the High Technology and Information Technology. With the coordination, as well as the city’s incentives in the field of high technology and investment in Danang High-Tech Park, enterprises from the United States consider opportunities to invest in the high technology sector in Danang.

Danang city has many benefits that investors are interested in such as the safe and stable living environment, the young and highly qualified labours from more than 25 universities and colleges in the city, in addition the city is also a destination for many domestic and foreign investors in many different fields, which is an opportunity for investors to compete, distribute the productions.

Currently, in Danang, there are more than 60 investment projects of the US investors with the registered capital of nearly 6 million USD, including large projects such as the Sunshine Aerospace Components Plant Project in Danang high-tech park of Universal Alloy Corporation (USA) with total registered capital of USD 170 million; the factory of electronics and electronic equipment manufacturing and assembling project, total capital of USD 50 million, in Hoa Khanh Industry Zone Expansion invested by Key Tronic EMS Group. Besides there are many other projects being implemented and effective in the process of operation.

Danang City and investors from the United States hoped to achieve more business achievements in the future to help investors and the city achieve development goals in the future to welcome company to set up company, factory, and invest in Vietnam.

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Da Nang City Receives Hungary Ambasador in Vietnam

 On October 7th, 2019, Chairman of Da Nang People’s Committee met the Ambassador Hungary to discuss cooperation. At the meeting, the Chairman of Danang People’s Committee informed about the development orientation of the city until 2030, with vision to 2045. Besides, the city also wishes to receive support and assistance in cooperation with Hungary in the near future about many business areas.

Hungary Ambassador highly appreciated the development of Danang and the achievements of the city in recent years, and expect that the two countries would be able to cooperate with each other in the future.

The two parties also discussed a number of issues such as the implementation of the project to upgrade the Danang Pediatric Maternity Hospital with funding from Hungary.

In the meeting, the representatives of Danang city shared wishes to attract more investors from Hungary and other European countries. In the coming time, with the orientation of developing hi-tech areas, services related to tourism, protecting the environment.

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Da Nang organizes the 9th urban development forum in the city of Yokohama, Japan

 On September 9th, 2019, Danang organized the 9th urban development forum of the city in Yokohama, Japan.

The forum was organized in 03 days from 09-11 September 2019. In this forum, the two cities reassessed the cooperation results over the past time, namely the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the two cities (in April 2019). In the coming time, the cities will focus on developing public transport, building port government projects, environmental issues, high technology, information technology and city construction. clever.

In the forum, the two cities summarized the achievements of economic cooperation between the two cities in recent years. Especially with the financial support from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in recent years such as: waste separation project, water pump supply project, Lien Chieu port research project. At the same time, the representative from Da Nang highly appreciated the mode of cooperation between the public and private sectors of Yokohama City through the Center of establishment the knowledge- Y-PORT and the Yokohama Urban Solutions Alliance – YUSA; Danang hope that Yokohama city will continue to share experiences for Danang City to learn and apply to develop similar models in the city.

In addition, representative of Da Nang mentioned specific matters that need Yokohama to coordinate and support in the future such as: support to raise awareness of waste separation at source, technical observation of water environment and air environment, human resource training in the field of information technology, high technology, smart city, training and caring for the elderly …

At the forum, leaders of the two cities witnessed the departments and units of the two localities signing the cooperation minutes, marking, committing and confirming the sustainable cooperation relationship of the two cities, including: (1) Framework for implementing the Memorandum of Cooperation between the two cities for the period of 2019-2022 (2) Promotion of energy saving project towards people in Da Nang city by JICA funding (3) Danang Industrial Wastewater Management Project.

In the coming time, Danang wishes the two cities to work together to develop together, to attract Japanese investors to Danang to invest in here through setting up company under foreign direct investment scheme, thereby helping the city to learn a lot of experience in construction and development in the future.

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Danang cooperates with South Korea in building an intelligent transportation system

 On October 28th, Vice Chairman of Danang People’s Committee had a meeting with Seoul Metro delegation, represented by Mr. Shim Seung Moo – Director of Seoul Metro International Relations Department.

At the meeting, the parties discuss about the program “Building Intelligent Traffic System” (ITS) in Danang, including the main contents such as: basic survey of the area where the project is supported; Reviewing and evaluating Danang plans and policies, development regimes; Analyze the appropriateness of the time as well as the project content and budget ….

Mr. Shim Seung Moo – Director of Seoul Metro’s International Relations Department said: Using the ITS application to operate and manage the transportation system is a necessary job for Vietnam and Danang. If ITS is implemented in an integrated manner, traffic congestion during peak hours as well as traffic accident incidents in the area will be quickly resolved.

In the coming time, to deploy the ITS project, Seoul Metro will support Danang in installing infrastructure, equipment, violation monitoring systems (speeding, illegal parking), system of moving fee, parking management … It is expected that the project will be implemented according the plan during 3 years: The first year of construction of architectural frames, the second year of organizing training and installation, the third year of operation.

On behalf of the representative of Danang city, Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee-Mr. Dang Viet Dung, agreed and highly appreciated the proposals of the Seoul Metro mission in surveying and supporting Danang to build the ITS system. Especially in the context that Danang aims to build a smart city in the period of 2018-2025, with a vision to 2030.

South Korea is known as a country with IT industries in the world, including the electronics, telecommunications and transportation. Therefore, the application of information technology applications in parking, solving traffic congestion, traffic flow,… will be necessary conditions towards building a smart city in Danang in the future.

The Vice President assigned the Department of Transport and the Department of Planning and Investment to early develop a detailed plan of the project to submit to KOICA and competent agencies in Vietnam for consideration, and to build a roadmap to receive it. KOICA’s non-refundable capital. Besides, the Vice Chairman expected the relevant units to coordinate to implement the project effectively.

With the goal of building a smart city in 2030, Danang wants to attract more investors from many different countries, to make investments in the field of information technology in Danang, to achieve the goals to be the smart city set by the city in the future.

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Why Japanese Are Interested in Da Nang?

 There are many advantages in geographical location, low labor costs, open investment environment… have made Da Nang becoming more and more attractive to Japanese investors. The cooperative relation between Da Nang and Japan has already had a solid foundation and are in the best development stage…

Previously, many Japanese investors are often interested in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) but recently they have been paying much attention to Da Nang – the city by the Han River. Besides the natural advantages, the Da Nang Government has also actively support and creates favorable conditions for investors, including Japan.

Recently, Da Nang and Japanese localities have also actively expanded their friendly cooperative relations in various fields. Da Nang has officially signed the Memorandum and deploy the friendship cooperation with Kawasaki, Sakai Yokohamam, Mitsuke and is taking steps to promote expanded cooperation, towards the signing of the Memorandum with Nagasaki, Kobe, Yaizu, Fukuoka, Otawara, Nemuro, Kushiro, Matsusaka. Da Nang is Vietnam’s pioneering province of Vietnam that has representative office in Tokyo…

Up to now, there are more than 120 enterprises and representative offices of the company from Japan have been active in Da Nang, with total investment of about 500 million USD, creating more than 30 thousand jobs for local workers. Annually, Da Nang also welcomed about 200 Japanese delegations came to survey and seek opportunities for cooperation and investment.

There are many projects in Da Nang that are constructed using ODA capital from Japan such as Hai Van Tunnel, the project to upgrade Tien Sa port, Da Nang Hospital…

Da Nang has a favorable geographical location as international gateway when lying on the East – West economic corridor, linking the countries in the ASEAN region. In addition, Da Nang has open investment environment with the liberal policies, implemented by the Government, transparent and facilitate administrative transactions…Moreover, Da Nang also has the advantage of cheap labor costs. Labor cost here is only 1/3 the salary paid to Chinese workers, an important factor in deciding to investment…

To welcoming the wave of Japanese investors, Da Nang has applied teaching Japanese language at secondary and high schools. Until now, Da Nang is province with the highest the number of students who study Japanese language in the central of Vietnam.

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Da Nang and Korea cooperate in investment

 On December 3, 2020, the representative of Da Nang city held an online investment promotion conference called “Investing in Da Nang” for Korean investors and businesses. The conference with the participation of more than 100 Korean investors and businesses has helped investors and businesses have a new view in their investment implementation in Da Nang market.

The conference has promoted and introduced the business environment and cooperation opportunities investment in Da Nang in the fields of high technology, information technology, services, and smart city support. Recently, in the context of investment capital inflows from Korea tends to shift to Southeast Asia due to the influence of the Covid-19 epidemic and the US-China trade war, Vietnam is considered to be a country which meet enough political, economic, labor and technological conditions to make the shifting investment in an easy way.

At the conference, representatives of Da Nang city affirmed that foreign investment is one of the important resources for the socio-economic development of the city. For many years, the city has always set the goal of attracting investment as the top target, in addition, the city has actively improved the investment environment, issued many preferential policies and supported foreign investors who invest in the city.

In 2020, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are still many investment projects of Korean investors making investments in Da Nang. Until November 2020, Korea is the country which has the most number of projects in Da Nang with 232 projects, and ranked 4th in terms of capital, with a total registered investment capital of more than 376 million USD, episode medium in the fields of services, real estate, industrial production and information technology.

In the current period, with the selection of a politically stable investment location, high quality labor, reasonable investment costs and good disease control ability, Vietnam is the top destination for Korean investors to set up company, set up factory, and make investment in Vietnam. Currently, many large enterprises in Korea have signed Memorandum of understanding with Da Nang city as the first step of cooperation and investment development in Da Nang in the coming years.

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Vision to develop logistics services in Da Nang

 Da Nang, with its favorable geographical location, lies on the arterial North-South traffic axis in terms of road, rail, sea and air, is an important traffic gateway of the Central – Central Highlands and is the end point on the East-West Economic Corridor running through Vietnam – Laos – Myanmar – Thailand, converging types of transport from air, seaport, railway, expressway, especially with deep water ports. Therefore, Da Nang has a great potential to develop into a maritime transport center, an important logistics hub to countries in the region.

In the economic development orientation and in the Politburo’s Resolution No. 43-NQ/TW dated January 24, 2019 on Da Nang construction and development to 2030, a vision to 2045 defines: Danang will focus on exploiting advantages to soon become a marine economic center, forming logistics service supply chains for the Central and Central Highlands.

To comply with the Resolution, currently, in parallel with the expansion of the port, Da Nang is also actively calling for investment in logistics centers. Of which, 20 hectares in Hoa Vang district, 2 hectares in the north of Da Nang airport, 9.1 hectares in the High-Tech Park. At the same time, promote the early operation of highways Da Nang – Quang Ngai, La Son – Tuy Loan… to awaken potentials, promote trade links, connect industrial zones, economic zones in the region, thereby becoming the driving force to promote the city’s logistics services industry.

In addition, Da Nang will build a new Lien Chieu port as a transport port, Tien Sa port will be a tourist port in order to promote the central role of the international seaport city and urban seaport. According to the Department of Planning and Investment of the city, the Lien Chieu port project is currently completing the environmental impact assessment report, submitting for appraisal and approval of the subdivision planning project 1/2,000. City leaders suggested early appraisal of capital sources and capital balancing capabilities, and proposed to allocate central budget capital to support projects. In the next phases, Lien Chieu port will attract investors in logistics items. This is an important premise for Da Nang to promote the role of a key maritime route in the Central region and a logistics center in the region.

With the above orientation, it is expected that in the coming time, the market of transport services and logistics in the city will develop more vibrantly, raising the quality of services not only in the city but in the region. It is hoped that more companies will invest, set up company and apply for investment certificate in Da Nang in the area of logistics and logistics support.    

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Why Da Nang is a Place for Setting up Business?

 Da Nang has been creating flexible policies, good environments attracting foreign investors setting up company, building factory, and developing service business.

Da Nang is a social and economic center of central area of Vietnam with the role as the center of industry, trade and tourism and service. It is a seaport city, an important transport hub for the transit of domestic and international transportation. Presently, Da Nang has been rising as a comprehensive and sustainability developing city.

With the advantages of geographical location, people and nature, the leader of Da Nang is planning to build the city becoming a major tourist center of the country, developing tourism industry with entertainment centers and luxury resorts in Vietnam.

In practice, Da Nang has been reducing administrative procedures, creating favorable conditions for investors in obtaining certificate for investment. In the meantime, the city also supports investors understanding the information and maintaining direct dialogue mode with businesses leaders and managers in order to promptly assist any difficulties encountered by investors in the process of project implementation. Da Nang’s leaders are famous in being proactive in providing the latest information about the law in investment, especially information on the process of changing investment certificate… to facilitate the investment plan of the investors whom are investing in Da Nang. For investment projects in infrastructure construction using ODA capital, the city has been quickly implemented the clearance and compensation in time to hand over the project site to the investors as planned.

To ensure the tourism environment and sustainable development, the city focuses on attracting projects in high technology industry, supporting industry and services with high added value i.e. information technology, education, healthcare and logistics…, especially favouring clean and quality projects rather than large projects but are likely to cause environmental issues.

Along with economic development, Da Nang also has activities and measures for environmental protection by investing in building projects to protect and improve the environment such as: modernization the sewer and wastewater treatment system (JICA), building east-west economic corridor (ADB)… to ensure sustainable and long term development of the economy.

An important element for economic development is the local security. Da Nang has done a great job in maintaining public security in order to guarantee investors a stable and safe political, social environment for investors.

It can be seen that Da Nang converges suitable elements and really is a promising land for investors both domestic and international, to invest in entertainment, real estate, tourism, IT, healthcare, education services.

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Danang city Builds the Business Relationship with Tochigi Province of Japan

On December 19th, 2019, the representative of Danang city met the president of Tochigi province, lead by Mr. Fukuda Tomikazu paying a working visit in Danang. At the moment, Japan is the top of country which invest in Danang.

Danang is receiving more than 130 investment projects and the total of investment capital is 800 million USD from Japan. The Japanese investors set up a company, obtained investment registration certificate the area such as: hi-tech, supporting services, education, medical. Besides, Danang signed the official memorandum of understanding on business cooperation with some cities of Japan such as: Kawasaki, Kansai, Yokohama, Kirsarazu,… Danang show wishes to cooperate with Japan in many fields such as: economy, cultural, education,..

At the meeting, the representative of Danang city introduced the economy-social of the city and in the recent years, the cooperation relationship of Danang and Japan has been developing in many fields.

Besides, the representative of ANT Lawyers met the representative lawyers from Utsunomiya law firm of Tochigi province at ANT Lawyers Danang office. At the meeting, the parties discussed about the cooperation of helping Japanese investors to enter Vietnam market with legal services. ANT Lawyers is the law firm in Vietnam, which has the offices in Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City.

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Da Nang promotes the development of Science and Technology

According to a report by the Ministry of Science and Technology, in 2019, the Science and Technology industry has achieved GDP growth of 46.11% and the labor productivity growth rate of 6.2%, these are achievements of Science and Technology of Vietnam in 2019. To continue the development of Science and Technology, Da Nang has set a goal of developing science and technology, focusing on the goal of improving the capacity of innovation by attracted the domestic and foreign investors to set up company in this fields in Da Nang.

In recent years, with efforts in Science and Technology development, Vietnam has achieved certain achievements in the fight against epidemics and bringing the economy back to stability. At the same time, Science and Technology achievements have been flexibly applied, promoting the basis of the digitized Vietnamese knowledge system in developing epidemic maps using Vmap, detecting people at risk of infection at tourist destinations, construction of medical declaration software. In the meantime, Vietnam has been effectively mobilizing science and technology representative networks in countries to connect research groups, exchange and test equipment, technologies and products for prevention and control of epidemic; promote public-private cooperation in conducting research tasks.

In addition, according to the content of Resolution No. 50/NQ-CP dated April 17, 2020 on the Government’s action plan to implement Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW dated September 27, 2019 of the Politburo on number of guidelines and policies actively participated in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Prime Minister has issued the policies to improve national innovation capacity.

In particular, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Science and Technology to conduct research, review and propose a comprehensive restructuring plan for the system of public scientific and technological research facilities. Building and developing national innovation centers, focusing on the key technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Developing a national innovation system in the direction of being enterprise is the centered, higher education institutions and research institutes as strong research subjects. At the same time, assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with units in joint research and development, propose special and breakthrough mechanisms and policies for the construction and operation of innovation centers. Beside, Vietnam has encouraged domestic and foreign universities, businesses and organizations to set up innovation centers in Vietnam.

In Da Nang City, the Department of Science and Technology issued Plan No. 28-KH/SKHCN dated May 12, 2020, focusing on the content of improving the capacity of innovation.

In the coming time, the city Department of Science and Technology will deploy 23 contents on the topic of innovation. In which, 03 contents are implemented in the period of 2020 to 2025 and 16 contents are implemented annually.

In the period of 2020 to 2025, the Department will coordinate with the Ministry of Science and Technology to promote the development of national creative start-up ecosystem to strongly develop startups in the city.

In addition, the Department will advise the implementation of the Projects to build Da Nang into a national innovation and innovation start-up center in the Central region and Highlands of Vietnam. In particular, in the immediate future, the city will focus on building and deploying activities of innovation centers, focusing on the core technologies of the Fourth Technology Revolution. The City People’s Committee issued a plan to implement the City’s Program on “Developing high-tech industry, building Da Nang into a national-level startup, innovation and innovation center, as an urban area in creativity – science – technology of the global and highly competitive”, and plan to implement the Project” Supporting national innovation start-up ecosystem to 2025″ in the Da Nang city.

With the efforts of Science and Technology development with the city’s FDI attraction goals, Da Nang hopes that it will become a destination for Science and Technology investors to set up company doing business in Vietnam.

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In 6 Months, Da Nang Attracted Over 80 Million USD of FDI

In the first 6 months of 2020, Da Nang City has attracted over 13.2 trillion VND of domestic investment capital, more than 80.2 million USD of FDI in Danang.

According to Department of Planning and Investment of Da Nang City, although affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation of attracting investment in the city achieved positive results.

Accordingly, in the first 6 months of 2020, Da Nang has attracted more than 13.2 trillion VND of domestic investment capital, more than 80.2 million USD of FDI capital. In particular, the investment capital for projects outside the Industrial Park has increased to a record, only 4 projects with a total capital of over 10.8 trillion VND, increase by nearly 600%. So far, Da Nang city has 337 domestic investment projects with a total capital of over 115 trillion VND, 855 FDI projects with a total capital of over 3.4 billion USD.

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According to Director of Planning and Investment Department of Da Nang, the above result is thanks to the city has well implemented the disbursement of public investment, implemented many motivational infrastructure projects. With more than 12.4 trillion VND of public investment approved for 2020, Da Nang has issued a series of policies to remove obstacles in terms of ground and procedures. A series of motivational projects have been implemented such as roads and bridges crossing Co Co River, West Ring Road 2, Eastern Son Tra district water environment improvement project, Hoa Lien water plant, project to renovate the cluster of intersections west of Tran Thi Ly bridge, Center for neurosurgery, trauma and plastic burns i- Danang Hospital…

Da Nang City has also granted investment certificates for the project of manufacturing synthetic rubber specialized for machine manufacturing, electricity and electronics, Table Table Asia management consulting project, Ubisoft Viet Co., Ltd, Kansei Kindergarten in Danang.

Da Nang City is currently promoting major projects such as Bilingual Intermediate School, International Center for Diagnosis and Treatment, International Hospital for Cancer and Infertility, Getaway Complex with investment of 2 billion USD, Downtown Duty Free project… While also dealing with problems related to procedures of land allocation and land lease related to the Nam O Ecological Tourism projec; Extending the implementation schedule of the FPT Urban Area project; Vinacapital Danang Golf Course project…

In the coming time, Da Nang will focus on organizing well the Investment Forum, expected in September 2020. The city will also promote investment in the form of online, maintain connection with international organizations such as JETRO, KOTRA, AMCHAM, AUSCHAM, SBF, IE Singapore, AHK… to connect businesses, cooperation on investment promotion. The investment attraction orientation of Danang in the coming time will be directed at large, high-tech, modern, environmentally friendly multinational corporations.

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Why Da Nang is a Place for Setting up Business

Da Nang has been creating flexible policies, good environments attracting foreign investors setting up company, building factory, and developing service business.

Da Nang is a social and economic center of central area of Vietnam with the role as the center of industry, trade and tourism and service. It is a seaport city, an important transport hub for the transit of domestic and international transportation. Presently, Da Nang has been rising as a comprehensive and sustainability developing city.

With the advantages of geographical location, people and nature, the leader of Da Nang is planning to build the city becoming a major tourist center of the country, developing tourism industry with entertainment centers and luxury resorts in Vietnam.

In practice, Da Nang has been reducing administrative procedures, creating favorable conditions for investors in obtaining certificate for investment. In the meantime, the city also supports investors understanding the information and maintaining direct dialogue mode with businesses leaders and managers in order to promptly assist any difficulties encountered by investors in the process of project implementation. Da Nang’s leaders are famous in being proactive in providing the latest information about the law in investment, especially information on the process of changing investment certificate… to facilitate the investment plan of the investors whom are investing in Da Nang. For investment projects in infrastructure construction using ODA capital, the city has been quickly implemented the clearance and compensation in time to hand over the project site to the investors as planned.

To ensure the tourism environment and sustainable development, the city focuses on attracting projects in high technology industry, supporting industry and services with high added value i.e. information technology, education, healthcare and logistics…, especially favouring clean and quality projects rather than large projects but are likely to cause environmental issues.

Along with economic development, Da Nang also has activities and measures for environmental protection by investing in building projects to protect and improve the environment such as: modernization the sewer and wastewater treatment system (JICA), building east-west economic corridor (ADB)… to ensure sustainable and long term development of the economy.

An important element for economic development is the local security. Da Nang has done a great job in maintaining public security in order to guarantee investors a stable and safe political, social environment for investors.

It can be seen that Da Nang converges suitable elements and really is a promising land for investors both domestic and international, to invest in entertainment, real estate, tourism, IT, healthcare, education services.

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Da Nang Calling for Investment in 7 Strategic Projects

In the international conference “Investing in Sustainable Urbanization” organized by Danang People’s Committee in collaboration with the regional network of local authorities on human capital management (CityNet), Da Nang has called for investment in 7 strategic projects.

At the workshop, Danang People’s Committee announced the list of 7 projects calling for investment in the form of PPP (public-private partnership): Lien Chieu port; solid waste treatment complex; new railway station and integrated urban area; infrastructure development and technology for non-motorized transport solutions; Da Nang – Hoi An metro; smart city construction and industrial park construction projects.

In particular, the project of Lien Chieu port is calling for investment with the aim of becoming the main wharf of the international gateway to the Central region, accommodating ships up to 100,000 tons. The relocation and construction of Da Nang Railway Station calls for investors to pay attention and implement the project in the form of PPP, which might be through BOT contract.

Da Nang Integrated Urban Renovation Project has a total budget of more than 345 million USD (over 7,900 billion VND). Project on development of vehicles and application of smart traffic management system in the form of ODA or PPP with a total capital of about 3.300 billion VND. The project to build metro connecting Da Nang with Hoi An city (Quang Nam) with a length of 33 km, along the coastal road, this project needs funding from 7,000 to 14,000 billion VND.

According to the Vice Chairman of Danang People’s Committee, sustainable urban development is one of the priorities of the city. Da Nang has set the orientation and guidelines for sustainable development. Since 2014, the city has approved a smarter city plan with priority areas of transportation, water supply, sewerage, food safety and building better city connections. Hence, Da Nang calling for investment in 7 key projects to address sustainable issues related to transport, urban.

Mr Vijay Jagannathan, Secretary General, of CityNet said that the workshop “Investing in Sustainable Urbanization” in Da Nang is seeking financial investment in urban infrastructure in a sustainable manner, overall and resistant to climate change. He also emphasized that infrastructure is a major challenge for urbanization as demand grows. Urban communities depend largely on effective urban planning as well as access to affordable public services.

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Singapore Leads in Investment in Danang

Singapore is a reliable partner and a familiar investor for the Vietnamese market. Singaporean investors poured capital to invest in Vietnam, specifically Danang city.

According to Danang People’s Committee, since the beginning of 2018, the city has granted 27 new FDI projects with a total registered capital of 7.29 million USD, reach 97% over the same period in 2017.

Up to now, there have been 6 foreign investors registered to buy shares and contribute capital to economic organizations with a total registered capital of 12.98 million USD.

Total investment capital in the first quarter of 2018, the city attracted 33 million USD, increase by 128% over the same period in 2017. Accumulated until now, Da Nang has 577 FDI projects, total investment capital of 3.062 billion USD.

According to the Danang People’s Committee, currently the city has 5 projects using ODA capital managed by the city and being implemented with total investment capital of about 390 million USD, in which ODA capital is 314 million USD, accounting for 80% of total capital.

In addition, currently the city has 5 projects in the official promotion stage, requesting the Ministry of Planning and Investment to consider and mobilize donors.

It is known that Singapore is the leading investor in Da Nang with a total registered capital of 717.87 million USD (accounting for 23.44%); the second is Japan with total investment capital of over 647.26 million USD (accounting for 21.13%); the third is the US with total investment capital of 519.04 million USD (accounting for 16.95%) and the fourth is Korea with 256.17 million USD (accounting for 8.36%).

Danang leaders said that they are preparing investment in Cam Le and Hoa Nhon industrial clusters. In addition, they are regularly monitoring the investment procedures for industrial clusters in the area to remove difficulties and obstacles in the process of site clearance.

According to Da Nang People’s Committee, the city has 317 domestic investment projects with total investment capital of 89,670 billion VND.

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Establishing Distribution Company In Danang

Da Nang is a city in the Central of Vietnam, with the advantage of being a trading place of many countries in the world. Danang has a large seaport in the top 10 large seaports of Vietnam, facilitating trading activities with many countries around the world.

At the present, Da Nang is promoting foreign investment into Da Nang, and many investors have chosen Da Nang to do business in the distribution business line. For this business line, Vietnam has committed to open up to attract 100% foreign investment. As committed, foreign-invested companies in the distribution sector will be allowed to provide commission agents, wholesalers and retailers of all products manufactured in Vietnam and legally imported products into Vietnam. Therefore, the investors can import or produce goods, then they distribute the goods in accordance with regulations.

In addition, with the increasing in the number of tourists coming to Da Nang in recent years, the demand for consumer products, fashion and other items for tourists has increased. This triggers demand that many companies to provide essential goods for tourists, and this is a great investment opportunity for investors both domestically and abroad. The investors could explore this opportunity to set up company in Da Nang and fill the market’s demand.

In addition, with many policies to support enterprises in administrative procedures, as well as management, investors can easily carry out procedures as well as manage and control their business better. Enterprises investing in Da Nang are now very satisfied with the way public services are handled in the city’s administrative procedures, therefore more and more investors are choosing Da Nang as a destination for investment when targeting in Vietnam.

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