Greening industrial parks to prepare for large investors

Businesses at the Industrial Real Estate Forum 2025 said that Vietnam needs to 'green and smarten' industrial parks to attract international investment capital.

Overview of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Forum 2025 taking place on the afternoon of October 29 in Ho Chi Minh City - Photo: CT

Maintaining a firm position and welcoming movements is the theme of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Forum 2025 (VIPF 2025) organized by the Finance - Investment newspaper on the afternoon of October 29 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Investors need clean electricity and good human resources

Mr. Tran Tan Sy, Deputy General Director of KN Holdings Group, said that there are many things that high-tech investors, especially in the semiconductor field, are most interested in when coming to Vietnam. Particularly for Taiwanese or American investors, there are two factors that determine their choice: power source and technical human resources.

The electricity he mentioned must not stop at "enough" but also be clean - a prerequisite for global corporations to meet the goal of net zero emissions.

Regarding human resources, Mr. Sy reported a positive signal when Vietnam ranked 31-34 in the world in terms of STEM capacity (according to the United Nations report in 2022), surpassing many other Asian countries. However, he was worried about the challenge in the scale of training, because Vietnam needs at least 50,000 engineers in the next 10 years, while there are currently not enough specialized training facilities.

"International cooperation in training semiconductor engineers is an inevitable direction. When connecting universities and businesses, Vietnam can completely take the initiative in providing high-quality human resources for the global technology supply chain," Mr. Sy proposed a solution.

Mr. Truong Gia Bao, Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Association (VIREA), commented that the competition to attract FDI among ASEAN countries is increasingly fierce. Countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and recently India have all introduced very strong incentive policies.

For Vietnam, the competitive advantage lies not only in tax incentives, but also in political stability, a transparent investment environment, and the ability to quickly adapt to global trends. The proof is that in the ASEAN region, Vietnam currently ranks 3rd in attracting FDI, after Singapore and Indonesia.

"The biggest challenge is still energy and infrastructure quality. We can look to the lesson of Indonesia - a country that has promoted GDP growth thanks to efficient exploitation of resources and development of deep processing industry. Vietnam can absolutely follow the same direction, taking advantage of rare earth resources to develop high-tech industries, increasing added value in the global supply chain," Mr. Bao emphasized.

Clean energy is one of the basic requirements that foreign investors need when choosing a location to invest - Illustration photo

Big step forward to be ready to welcome "eagle nest"

Ms. Trang Le, General Director and Senior Director of Research and Consulting at JLL Vietnam, once again emphasized that sustainable development is no longer an option, it is a mandatory requirement. Global manufacturers are committed to Net Zero, choosing only green and smart industrial parks to meet the global supply chain.

According to her, industrial real estate prices in Vietnam will continue to increase, reflecting improvements in product value and quality. But to attract high-quality FDI, we need to focus not only on real estate, but also on intangible values ​​such as labor quality, productivity, support services and a transparent investment environment.

Vietnam Industrial Park Executive Director Hardy Diec - Photo: CT

Vietnam Industrial Park CEO Hardy Diec said that Vietnam is making great strides to be ready to welcome big investors. He also saw that our country is starting to attract more FDI capital into technology fields, unlike before which it was only textiles, garments and footwear.

From here, Mr. Hardy Diec said the core issue that needs to be recognized and considered is cost.

Investors who want to come to Vietnam always calculate how to break even and get profits soon. Therefore, not only infrastructure, investors also consider factors of green and sustainable development. Not only administrative procedures, investors also always want favorable tax policies.

He also said that investors choose Vietnam not only because of its favorable geographical location and similar time zones, but also because of cultural similarities, a stable investment environment, and the increasingly improved quality of human resources.

FDI capital poured into Vietnam increased

According to the Ministry of Finance , in the first 9 months of the year, Vietnam attracted 28.5 billion USD in registered FDI capital, up 15% over the same period, and disbursed capital reached nearly 19 billion USD, up 8.5%. Many large corporations such as Qualcomm, NVIDIA, LEGO, SYRE... have expanded their investments, established supply chains, and research and development centers in Vietnam.

The domestic business sector also recorded positive signals with more than 231,000 newly registered or returning businesses in the first nine months, an increase of more than 26% over the same period last year.

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