Strengthening external relations
Binh Duong has actively carried out many activities to boost foreign economic relations, trade and market expansion. In
addition to purely diplomatic activities, the department cooperated
related agencies to organize cultural – art, sport, exchange activities
for businesses, people in foreign localities, dialogues with enterprises
to learn about aspirations, remove difficulties…From these activities,
Binh Duong twinned with 8 provinces, cities in Asia and Europe, like:
Yamaguchi (Japan), Guangzhou (China), Eindhoven (Netherlands),
Champasack (Laos)...
Provincial leaders are committed to
creating an open, stable investment environment, enhancing
infrastructure construction, consulting services, investor supporting.
Simultaneously, the province supported the resettlement of people, gave
different trainings to workers in order to help employees to improve
their qualifications and skills, meet the requirements of businesses.
This has consolidated business’s trust in provincial human resource and
investment environment of the province.
The steady development of Binh Duong
has been kept up, because of the balance between foreign and domestic
affairs. This has helped to increase investments from foreign businesses
in Binh Duong province.
In the last 5 years,
Binh Duong province has paid attention to and implemented well foreign
affairs to serve provincial development. Image: Tran Van Nam (right),
Chairman of Provincial People’s Committee, received Japanese Tokyu
Corporation’s delegation
To keep luring foreign investments
Recently, Binh Duong leaders
repeatedly welcomed foreign delegations of foreign governments,
multinational corporations, large companies... They had the same desire
for investment opportunities in Binh Duong. Delegations were so
impressed by the rapid development of Binh Duong as well as open
policies, favorable investment climate, high sense of responsibility of
provincial leaders and all governmental levels.
In the last visit to Binh Duong,
Seok Hyun Son, Board of Directors’ Chairman of Sungjin Foma Company
(South Korea) specializing equipment of automobiles, said cheerfully
that the delegation had aimed learn about a new investment environment,
before the visit. But when provincial leaders welcomed them and
introduced local economic development, preferential policies to
investors, the company made the decision to select Binh Duong for
launching new projects.
Le Phu Hoa, Director of provincial
Department of Foreign Affairs, said there were 39 countries and
territories around the world to invest and cooperate with Binh Duong.
The leading investor in terms of project number and invested capital is
Japan, followed by Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore...
Thanks to good trade promotion
activities, open investment policies, in the last 9 months, the province
absorbed nearly $1,480 billion, surpassing year-target ($1 billion) in
2015.
Reported by D.Chi, H.H - Translated by Ngoc Huynh