Ho Chi Minh City: Transforming industrial and export processing zones in depth

On May 9, the Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) announced the planning of the list of industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050, and solutions to attract investment in IPs and EPZs by 2025.

Vinh Loc Industrial Park in Binh Chanh District. Photo: Hoang Hung

According to the plan, Ho Chi Minh City aims to retain all industrial land, transform in depth, and restructure towards high technology, digital economy , green economy, and circular economy. At the same time, shift industries and fields that use a lot of resources and have little added value to using high technology and are environmentally friendly.

Mr. Pham Thanh Truc, Deputy Head of Hepza Board, said that the pilot project will convert 5 existing export processing zones and industrial parks into high-tech industrial parks, ecological industrial parks, industrial - urban - service parks and logistics centers, including: Tan Thuan (District 7), Hiep Phuoc (Nha Be District), Tan Binh (Tan Phu District, Binh Tan District), Cat Lai and Binh Chieu (Thu Duc City).

In addition, Ho Chi Minh City also plans to invest in 14 new industrial parks with a total area of 3,833 hectares. In the period 2025-2027, it will invest in 4 industrial parks: Pham Van Hai I, Pham Van Hai II, Vinh Loc 3 (Binh Chanh district) and Nhi Xuan (Hoc Mon district).

In the period of 2027-2030, invest in 5 industrial parks: An Phu, Trung An (Cu Chi district); Le Minh Xuan 4, Pham Van Hai III (Binh Chanh district) and Hiep Phuoc 3 (Nha Be district). In the period of 2030 - 2033, invest in 5 more industrial parks including Tan Phu Trung 2, Tan Phu Trung 3, Tan Phu Trung 4 (Cu Chi district); Binh Khanh 1 and Binh Khanh 2 (Can Gio district).

Mr. Le Van Thinh, Head of Hepza, said that in the first 4 months of 2025, the total investment capital attracted to Hepza reached 135 million USD (the target for 2025 is 600 million USD), reaching 22.5%, down 34% over the same period last year. Of which, foreign investment capital decreased sharply (down to 90%), in return, domestic investment capital increased 6 times over the same period.

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