On August 29, the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee held the 2025 Investment Promotion Conference to promote potential, strengths and connect domestic and foreign business communities, making Gia Lai an attractive destination.

In his opening speech, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan emphasized that Gia Lai possesses many outstanding advantages with more than 600,000 hectares of forest, millions of hectares of fertile agricultural land, and diverse ecosystems - important resources for developing a green and sustainable economy .

This is also a locality with great potential for high-tech agriculture , renewable energy, logistics services and trade.

With its strategic location, Gia Lai is considered the center of traffic routes, the gateway for international trade with Laos, Cambodia and the Mekong sub-region. The infrastructure system is increasingly synchronized with roads, railways, airways, seaports and especially Le Thanh International Border Gate, helping to form a complete transportation network.

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Chairman Pham Anh Tuan affirmed that Gia Lai will always accompany businesses. Photo: Tran Hoan

In addition, with 280 reservoirs and many irrigation projects, Gia Lai has a great advantage in water security, serving high-tech agriculture.

"In the energy sector, the province is blessed with natural resources to develop wind power, solar power and hydropower - an important foundation for Gia Lai to realize its goal of becoming a renewable energy center in the Central Highlands region," said the chairman of Gia Lai province.

According to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Gia Lai identified five growth pillars including: Processing and manufacturing industry; renewable energy, green industry, AI - semiconductors; tourism becoming a spearhead economic sector; high-tech agriculture, sustainable forestry; port services - logistics.

In addition, the province focuses on four breakthroughs: creative government, technological and policy innovation, high-quality human resource development, and synchronous infrastructure.

Chairman Pham Anh Tuan affirmed that the provincial government always accompanies businesses with the motto "5 together": listening together, discussing together, implementing together, sharing results together and solving difficulties together. Gia Lai is also committed to building a transparent, safe and attractive investment environment, creating a foundation for long-term development.

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Gia Lai provincial leaders presented the investment decision for the Van Canh Wind Power Plant project to a representative of NEXIF RATCH Energy SE Asia Group. Photo: Tran Hoan

At the conference, provincial leaders awarded investment approval decisions and investment registration certificates to 27 projects with a total registered capital of more than VND 26,262 billion (about USD 1 billion).

The projects span many fields, including 14 industrial projects; 7 infrastructure construction projects; 4 trade-service-tourism projects and 2 agriculture-forestry-fishery projects.

The provincial leaders also presented investment cooperation memorandums to 42 projects with a total estimated capital of over VND93,430 billion (nearly USD3.6 billion). These projects are large-scale, focusing on 23 industrial projects; 13 agriculture, forestry and fishery projects; 3 tourism and service projects; 2 real estate and urban economic projects and 1 logistics project.

Representatives of a number of businesses in the fields of information technology, high-tech agriculture, renewable energy and logistics affirmed their readiness to expand investment, considering Gia Lai a strategic location in the coming period.

At the conference, Provincial Party Secretary Ho Quoc Dung expressed his hope that at least two-thirds of the businesses signed at the conference will stay in Gia Lai. Of the total of nearly VND120,000 billion granted investment decisions and memorandums, at least VND100,000 billion will actually be present, becoming a development resource for the locality.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/gia-lai-cong-bo-loat-du-an-ty-usd-tai-hoi-nghi-xuc-tien-dau-tu-2025-2437582.html