CELEBRATION OF THE 80TH AUGUST REVOLUTION AND NATIONAL DAY 2-9 Key points for developing Vietnam's industrial zones

Panoramic view of Chien You Vietnam Joint Stock Company's factory in Bien Hoa 2 Industrial Park.

Going from small to large, from few to many, low to high, today Dong Nai has both expanded the number of industrial parks and selectively invested, aiming to develop industry in a modern, sustainable and environmentally friendly direction.

From the first industrial park to the top number of industrial parks in the country

Bien Hoa Industrial Park (renamed Bien Hoa 1 Industrial Park after 1975) was established in 1963 and put into operation in 1964 (now in Tran Bien Ward). This is the first industrial park in Vietnam as well as Dong Nai. This industrial park has fulfilled its historical role when Dong Nai province decided to convert its function from industrial land to urban - commercial - service area and improve the environment. In the future, this will be the most classy administrative, urban, commercial and service area of the province, with a spreading impact throughout the region.

With experience from the initial industrial parks, after the liberation of the South, the reunification of the country and especially since our country entered the renovation, Dong Nai has gradually established more and more industrial parks. At first, only state-owned enterprises invested, managed and operated industrial park infrastructure, but later some private economic sectors and investors from Thailand and Japan also participated. Typical state-owned industrial park infrastructure investors such as Sonadezi and Tin Nghia; then corporations from Thailand and Japan, and then large private enterprises have been investing and developing new industrial parks.

The early establishment and strong growth in the number of industrial parks has helped Dong Nai become an attractive location for investment, especially from large corporations and FDI enterprises such as: Cargill (USA); Vedan, Tripod, Formosa (Taiwan); Nestlé (Switzerland); Hyosung, Changshin (Korea); Ajinomoto, Lixil (Japan); CP, Amata (Thailand)... From the starting point in Dong Nai, investors have opened more factories in many other provinces and cities across the country.

As a large and high-tech investor from Germany, Bosch Group has a factory producing continuously variable transmission (CVT) belts for automobiles in Long Thanh Industrial Park. The factory in Dong Nai has an area of over 16 hectares and is one of the FDI enterprises with high revenue and budget contribution in the province.

According to Mr. Brendan Sunderland, Vice President, Technical Director of Bosch Vietnam Plant: Bosch is committed to long-term high-tech investment in Vietnam; continuing to cooperate and contribute to the development of digitalization, sustainability and advanced manufacturing as well as continuing to innovate and support the aspirations of the local community.

From July 2025, Dong Nai officially merged with Binh Phuoc to become the new Dong Nai province. After the merger, Dong Nai has great resources and advantages from the two old provinces, including the former industrial parks in Binh Phuoc. That contributes to the cumulative number of 81 industrial parks planned in Dong Nai with an area of over 39 thousand hectares. Of which, 59 industrial parks were established with a total area of 21.7 thousand hectares. In 2025 and early 2026, a number of new industrial parks in the province will be built such as: Phuoc An, Bau Can - Tan Hiep, Xuan Que, Song Nhan...

Along with that, many infrastructure investors are raising the issue of investing and developing more industrial parks. For example, the Dong Nam Dong Phu Industrial Park project is being researched and invested in by Techtra Infrastructure Investment and Development Joint Stock Company (Binh Phuoc Ward) on an area of about 2,000 hectares.

According to Mr. Tran Quoc Nguyen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Techtra Infrastructure Investment and Development Joint Stock Company, the company has arranged financial resources to be ready to implement the project. The enterprise hopes that the province will create favorable conditions for registering and approving investors as soon as the master plan is approved.

Development of ecological and modern industrial parks

For a long time, Dong Nai has been selective in attracting investment for investment projects in the province. This is to minimize negative impacts on the environment, because compared to many other localities, Dong Nai developed industrial parks and attracted investment very early. Along with economic development, environmental problems have arisen, so the province has decided to selectively attract investment, prioritizing high-tech industries, less land-intensive, and at the same time creating high added value for products.

Along with selectively attracting investment for each individual project, Dong Nai is promoting the development of industrial parks following the ecological model. Amata Industrial Park is the first model in Dong Nai following this direction.

Mr. Pham Anh Tuan, Senior Director of Water and Environment Management at Amata Bien Hoa Urban Joint Stock Company, the project investor, commented: Sustainable development and circular economy bring many economic and environmental benefits. Amata Industrial Park is building industrial symbiosis, bringing clear economic and environmental benefits, meeting export conditions. The future industrial parks of Amata Group are also oriented towards ecological development such as in Quang Ninh or Long Thanh High-Tech Industrial Park.

From Amata, Dong Nai will continue to develop other industrial parks in an ecological direction such as: Long Duc, Phuoc An, Bau Can - Tan Hiep... Accordingly, developing industrial parks according to a green and closed model, attracting investment projects in a specialized direction to create a production chain and implement industrial symbiosis.

In recent years, thanks to the attraction of large projects such as Long Thanh International Airport, Phuoc An Seaport; highway, railway and road systems, many investors have come to Dong Nai but the land fund in the industrial parks cannot meet the demand. Therefore, the province is speeding up procedures to deploy new industrial parks to meet the needs of investors.

According to Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Tan Duc, Dong Nai has set a roadmap for net zero by 2050 and industry is one of the seven priority areas the province focuses on. In addition to solutions for greening old industrial parks and factories, selectively attracting new investment, requiring a roadmap and implementing emission reduction, the province is interested in forming green, ecological industrial parks that meet net zero standards. The province recommends that industrial park infrastructure investors and businesses in the area promote green transformation in the industrial sector, linking economic growth with environmental protection.

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Source: https://baodongnai.com.vn/kinh-te/202508/ky-niem-80-nam-cach-mang-thang-tam-va-quoc-khanh-2-9-trong-diem-phat-trien-khu-cong-nghiep-cua-viet-nam-d9824ba/