Hybrid investment promotion conference with Dutch enterprises at the bridgepoint of Binh Dinh province
The conference at Binh Dinh bridgepoint was attended by Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ho Chi Minh City Daniel Coenraad Stork, General Director of Becamex IDC Corporation Pham Ngoc Thuan, General Director of Becamex Binh Dinh Joint Stock Company Nguyen Van Lang, Marketing Director of Becamex IDC Corporation Vo Son Dien, Managing Director of Dutch Business Association in Vietnam Guido van Rooy and leaders of the departments: Industry and Trade, Construction, Natural Resources and Environment, Transport, Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Planning and Investment and the Economic Zone Administration.
The bridge point of the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands was chaired by Ambassador Pham Viet Anh. The bridgepoint in Leeuwarden City (Netherlands) was chaired by Mr. Pham Van Hai - Representative of Becamex IDC Corporation in the Netherlands.
The conference attracted the attendance of representatives of 100 Dutch enterprises.
In the opening speech, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan emphasized that over the last few years, many big investors have trusted and chosen Binh Dinh province to invest and develop their business. Notably, Becamex IDC Corporation has invested in building and trading infrastructure of Becamex VSIP Binh Dinh Industrial Park in Canh Vinh commune, Van Canh district on an area of 1,000 hectares. It is the first standard industrial constructed and developed in Binh Dinh province, expected to create breakthroughs in attracting and developing local industries and services.
With the view of constantly improving the quality of the business environment and striving to become an "ideal destination" for domestic and foreign investors, Binh Dinh province has been determined in developing and upgrading the transport infrastructure system in the whole province, and the infrastructure of the economic zone and the industrial parks, including Becamex VSIP Binh Dinh Industrial Park. In addition, the administrative procedures on investment, construction, tax, customs and improving the relationship between investors, businesses and local authorities at all levels is given top priority in order to build a professional, modern and effective administrative system to serve people and enterprises.
In recent years, Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee and other localities in the province have strengthened promotion and attracted domestic and foreign investors and businesses to invest in the province. However, the outcomes of attracting foreign direct investment in general and of Dutch investors in particular in the province are quite limited. At present there is one animal feed processing factory invested by De Heus Co., Ltd (Netherlands) in Nhon Hoa Industrial Park, with a total registered value of USD 20.1 million USD, which went into operation in 2018.
The Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ho Chi Minh City, Mr. Daniël Stork highly appreciated the potentials of Vietnam in general and Binh Dinh province in particular in seaports, offshore wind power, etc. which the Netherlands has strengths and wants to invest. He believes that this event will help promote and attract foreign investment to the province; also, the event will connect and build relationships between the provincial government and Dutch investors in the near future.
Mr. Pham Viet Anh - Vietnamese Ambassador to the Netherlands said that the workshop will open many cooperation projects for Binh Dinh province. He asserted that the cooperation between Binh Dinh province and the localities of the Netherlands would create added value for the strengths and potentials of the province.