Hai Phong - an attractive destination for the business community.

With a development-oriented mindset, 'new policies - new approaches - new speed', Hai Phong creates a distinct competitive advantage, becoming an attractive destination for the business community and investors.

Comrade Le Tien Chau, Member of the Central Committee of the Party, Secretary of the Hai Phong City Party Committee, and Head of the Hai Phong City National Assembly Delegation, along with other city leaders, witnessed the signing and exchange of memoranda of understanding between the investor of Tien Lang 1 Industrial Park and secondary investors. Photo: DUY THINH

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On January 8, 2026, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Resolution No. 02 on key tasks and solutions to improve the business environment and enhance national competitiveness in 2026.

One of the objectives of Government Resolution 02 is to continue to significantly improve the quality of the investment and business environment to suit the domestic context and development trends, in order to enhance Vietnam's position in international rankings. This includes creating a healthy, competitive investment and business environment that ensures transparency, stability, reduced compliance costs, adherence to international best practices, encouragement of innovation, unleashing productive forces, mobilizing all resources, and creating new impetus for development.

The objectives set forth in Resolution No. 02 reveal new requirements for improving the investment and business environment. This is not only an urgent task but also demands a strong shift from a management mindset to a development-oriented approach, with citizens and businesses at the center of service delivery.

In Hai Phong, over the years, the city has made continuous efforts and achieved many outstanding results in improving the investment and business environment. Specifically in 2025, Hai Phong rose to first place in three key indicators: PCI, PAR Index, and SIPAS.

Beyond mere statistical indicators, Hai Phong's investment and business environment continues to improve significantly, maintaining double-digit growth for 11 consecutive years; attracting record investment capital with domestic capital reaching nearly 560,000 billion VND (a tenfold increase compared to 2024), and FDI reaching nearly 20 billion USD.

Equally impressive is the fact that nearly 7,500 new businesses were established during the year, bringing the total number of active businesses in the city to over 50,000. These operating businesses recorded an average revenue growth rate of over 20%.

Based on the achievements made, in 2026 and the period 2025-2030, Hai Phong sets new goals with a strong aspiration for development. To realize these goals, one of the city's key tasks is to continue to significantly improve the investment and business environment, coupled with the synchronous development of all economic sectors, creating a distinct competitive advantage to make Hai Phong an attractive investment destination and a strategic destination of the new era.

New policies - new approaches - new speed.

A favorable, transparent, safe, and sustainable investment and business environment is a crucial condition that has helped Hai Phong achieve breakthrough development in recent years. Photo: LE DUNG

To concretize the goals and tasks for 2026, the city strives to continue maintaining and improving its ranking in the PCI, PAR Index, and SIPAS with many specific solutions. These include accelerating and striving for administrative procedure reform, digital transformation, and simplification of paperwork; innovating and upgrading effective business support models regarding administrative procedures, especially supporting the implementation of online public services linked to digital transformation applications. Building trust between all levels of government and the business community; promoting innovation; developing high-quality human resources; strengthening industry and regional linkages; and gradually forming a business ecosystem with depth and the ability to spread…

The city also instilled the spirit of "decisive action - dedicated service," and "clear responsibilities, clear tasks, clear timelines, clear accountability, clear outcomes, and clear authority" in all departments, localities, and the entire team of officials and civil servants.

Recently, the city held a groundbreaking ceremony for three industrial park projects: Tien Lang 1, Tien Lang Airport - Zone B, and Vinh Quang Phase 1, with a total investment of up to 19,000 billion VND. These three projects are impressive not only for their scale and total investment but also for the record-breakingly short timeframe for investment procedures.

With the Tien Lang 1 Industrial Park project, the entire process, from the investor submitting their interest in the project to the commencement of construction, took only 20 days, whereas similar projects in the past could take many months.

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Chairman of the Hai Phong City People's Committee Le Ngoc Chau affirmed that the most special aspect of this project is the new policy - the new approach - with a new speed. The time for completing investment procedures has been shortened to a record level… This confirms Hai Phong's commitment to investors: "Actions speak louder than words, administrative reform is substantive, procedures are turned into opportunities, and time is turned into profit for businesses."

"Upon attending the groundbreaking ceremony and witnessing the city leaders' commitments, investors were very excited and immediately proceeded with exploring investment opportunities as soon as possible," said Mr. Dang Thanh Tam, Director of Asia Pacific Green Development Joint Stock Company - the investor of Tien Lang 1 Industrial Park Project.

In 2026, the city aims to continue significantly improving its investment and business environment, becoming a successful destination for investors and businesses. Photo: LE DUNG

The commencement of three projects with streamlined investment procedures in early 2026 demonstrates the city's determination to build a transparent, favorable, safe, and sustainable investment and business environment. The achievements from improving the investment and business environment, along with the strong commitment to reform in 2026, will not only serve as a foundation for attracting investment but also as a crucial driving force for the city to continue its breakthroughs and make positive contributions to the overall growth of the region and the country.

HA MINH

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