MISSION LEADER VIETNAM TRADE PROMOTION AGENCY Mr. Ta Hoang Linh Deputy Director General 20 Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hoan Kiem district Address: City: Hanoi State/Province: Postal code: Country: Vietnam Phone: +84 - 4 - 39347628 Fax: +84 - 4 - 39348142 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.vietrade.gov.vn Date established (year): 2000 Number of employees: 130 Business Type: Governmental, Trade Promotion Company Brief The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (VIETRADE) is a governmental Introduction: organization responsible for state management, coordination and implementation of trade and trade related investment promotion activities in Vietnam. VIETRADE works together with various provincial trade promotion centers and trade support institutions as well as international and foreign trade promotion organizations to assist Vietnamese and foreign enterprises in their business development and expansion. Business line: - Providing business information - Assisting Vietnamese and foreign enterprises to identify business opportunities, customers, suppliers and partners through dispatching trade missions abroad, hosting foreign business missions visiting Vietnam and organizing business meetings, seminars and conferences for Vietnamese and foreign enterprises; - Assisting Vietnamese and foreign enterprises in the organization of and participation in trade fairs and exhibitions in Vietnam and abroad; - Training Vietnamese enterprises and trade support institutions in trade promotion and export marketing; - Providing consulting services and technical assistance in trade and export production; - Developing e-commerce capabilities among the Vietnamese business communities; - Supporting foreign businesses to develop business in Vietnam; - Proposing to the Government policies and measures for the development of business support activities; - Developing facilities for trade promotion and Cooperating with international and foreign organizations in trade promotion. QUANG NGAI PROVINCE Mrs. Huynh Thi Phuong Hoa Deputy Director – Quang Ngai Investment Promotion Center 448 Quang Trung street Address: City: State/Province: Quang Ngai Postal code: +84 55 Country: Vietnam Phone: +84 - 55 - 3819714/ 3819129/ 3819715 Fax: +84 - 55 - 3816322 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ipc.quangngai.gov.vn Business Type: Provincial Authority Company Brief Situated in the pivotal economic area of the Central Vietnam, right on the Introduction: National Highway 1A and the Trans-Viet Railway, connected with the Central Highland by the Access Road 24A, Quang Ngai - a coastal province of 130 km coastline with two large seaports of Dung Quat and Sa Ky. Area: 5,135.2 km sq Population: 1.205 million people GDP: 21% I. Infrastructure system: Quang Ngai city locates away Chu Lai Airport 35 km and Da Nang 123 km to the North. Quang Ngai province has the available transportation system consisting of Da Nang - Quang Ngai Highway; Dung Quat deep seaport (the depth of 19 m); Dung Quat - Sa Huynh coastal road; the national highway 1A; Trans Viet Railway and the national highway 24A linking to highland provinces, Southern Laos, North-Eastern Cambodia; Binh Long - HCM road leading to Bo Y border Gate. II. Natural resources: Quang Ngai has an over 130 km coastline, territorial waters area of 2.800 km.sq, beautiful beaches to develop tourism and super-deep bay being a strong point for seaport system investment. Besides, Quang Ngai also has approximately 38 km.sq of water surface area, which is favorable for aquatic products and 197,100 ha of forest. III. Industrial Zones: 1. Tinh Phong industrial zone: - Total area: 142 ha. - Encouraged sectors of investment: producing industries regarding building material, internal and external decorating material: timber products, pottery, synthesis material, constructional equipments, comodities, electronic devices, exports and consumer goods; auxiliary industries for heavy industry. 2. Quang Phu industrial zone: - Total area: 120.41 ha. - Encouraged sectors of investment: such processing industries as agro-forestry, fishery products, post-sugar products, carton boxes, plastic, textile and less polluted products for export and consumption. 3. Pho Phong industrial zone: - Total area: 157.387 ha. - Encouraged sectors of investment: Agro-forestry products, transportation facilities, mechanic engineering, consumer goods, carton manufacture, export production. IV. Dung Quat Economic Zone: Dung Quat Economic Zone (DQEZ) is adjusted for general plan scheme till 2025 by Vietnamese Government with the total area of over 45,332 ha including the current area of 10,300 ha, the expanded area of 24,280 ha and 10,752 ha for the water surface area. DQEZ is the multi-sector, multi-functional zone of industry, services, tourism, urban area, agro-forestry, fishery. Major industries are oil refined, petrochemical, chemical and other main heavy industries consisting of steel mill, shipbuilding and the others closely linking to an effective exploitation of Dung Quat and My Han deep seaports. DQEZ is one of the centers of port-based services industry and urban area of the key economic region in the central Vietnam and one of the important terminal for transportation, trading and international exchange of the Central and Highlands. There is no doubt that DQEZ has considerable advantages such as the completed infrastructure; applying highest incentives given by the Government; applicating the transparent mechanism and institution in line with the current globalization and international integration. 3. Functional sub-areas: 3.1. East Dung Quat industrial park: 5,784ha. It gathers large scale heavy industries closely linking to Dung Quat deep seaport with such fields as petrochemical, chemical, shipbuilding, steel mill, cement produce, heavy industrial equipments and car assembling and manufacturing industries. There are some existing large scale projects including Dung Quat Oil Refinery, shipbuilding plant, steel mill plant, heavy equipments manufacturing plant, poly-propylene, bio-etanol plants and many other ones. 3.2. West Dung Quat industrial park: 2,676 ha. This is multi-sector light industrial unit developed along the existing East- Western axis (Doc Soi - Dung Quat port axis). It flocks manufacturers regarding building material, mechanic engineering, agro-forestry and aquatic products, textile products, consumer goods, exports, electric and electronic facilities. Besides, there are also medium and small transit warehouses. 3.3. Dung Quat port: 746 ha Dung Quat port is 19m deep. It has the breakwater with the length of 1,600m, height of 27m and width of 15m, and a 1,750m long sand dyke in the west. It is the largest multifunctional deep waterport of Vietnam consisting of petroleum port, specialized port and general port (container goods and lone goods) possibly accessible 50,000 DWT - oil vessels, cargo ship with capacity of 30,000 --- 50,000 DWT. 3.4. Van Tuong Urban area: 3,828 ha with 6 functional areas. + Residential area: 1,594ha comprising 5 sub-areas. + Ecological tourist area: 450 ha. + Park area: 480 ha. + Hi-technology area: 389 ha. + Oriented area for development in future: 94 ha. + Green trees preserved area: 820 ha. Orientation towards investment attraction: 1. Industrial sector: - Oil refined, petrochemical, chemical, post- oil products industries. - Ship building and shipyard industry. - Heavy, auxiliary and processing industries. - Building material production. - Raising and exploiting aquatic products. - Infrastructure system supplied for industrial parks. 2. Services - Tourism: - Hotel, trade center, supermarket. - High standard tourist area. - Amusement parks. - Urban areas. THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE Mr. Le Dinh Khanh Deputy Director – Department of Planning and Investment of Thua Thien Hue Ton Duc Thang Street Address: City: Hue State/Province: Thua Thien Hue Postal code: Country: Vietnam Phone: +84-54-3 824680 Fax: +84-54- 3 821 264 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.skhdt.hue.gov.vn/portal Business Type: Provincial Authority Brief Introduction Thua Thien Hue Province, located on a strategic location: on East-West economic corridor connecting the province with Laos, Thailand and Myamar, is ranked among the leading economic zones of the Central region. Area: 5,065 km 2 Population: 1,2 million people Labour force: 600,000 people GDP: 12% (2006-2010) Provincial competition index (PCI): Distinction ranking (2007, 2008, 2009). Hue, the capital city of the Province, is a Festival city with two world cultural heritages recognised by UNESCO. We also have Lang Co, ranked among the most beautiful bays in the world. Additionaly, we are proud to have Tam Giang – Cau Hai lagoon - the largest lagoon in Southeast Asia. Our infrastructure system is complete with Phu Bai International Airport and Chan May deep seaport. With 16 universities, 3 colleges and technical schools, 4 vocational schools, we are seen as the comprehensive educational center of Vietnam. Hue Central hospital and the hospital of Hue Medical and Pharmaceutical school make the province an intensive healthcare center of the country. Up to now, we have 65 FDI projects, focusing on tourism - service, education, investment on infrastructure of inductrial zones, etc.. The total number of Korean FDI projects in Thua Thien Hue is 10, which occupies approximalely 15% of the total number. We are happy that there are more and more Korean Investors coming to invest in our province. Thua Thien Hue province is calling for investment in the following areas: - Hue city; - Chan