Promote the construction of Binh Duong Smart City
Horasis
Asia Meeting (Horasis) is
an international investment promotion organization established in 2005 with the
mission of connecting multinational corporations around the world. Horasis will bring positive values in
economic development during the Industrial Revolution 4.0 period generally and
Binh Duong Smart City Project particularly.
Horasis
creates a platform to connect and help localities, investors and multinational
corporations in the world to promote and seek opportunities and global
development partners, offer solutions to today's most important corporate challenges
and international strategic forecasts. Horasis
was held in Binh Duong in 2018 and also on this November 24-25 the region's
largest economic event continues to take place in Binh Duong for the second
time.
Mr.
Nguyen Van Hung - Chairman of Becamex IDC said that, Horasis is an event in the
series of the Binh Duong Smart City Project’s programs. Horasis leaders found
that, Binh Duong has all conditions, especially infrastructures and important
foundations for economic development in the new period, especially the current
digital economy.
Binh Duong successfully organized Horasis 2018
Binh
Duong Smart City project was approved in 2016 by the provincial People's
Committee. After 03 years
of implementation, the project has been achieving positive results. In particular, organizing Horasis Asia
Meeting in Binh Duong is considered as an opportunity for Binh Duong to
complete the project quickly.
Over
the past 03 years, Binh Duong province has taken appropriate steps to implement
the Smart City Project. In
which, Horasis has become an important foundation for Binh Duong to study,
acquire and share experiences on the trend of building smart cities in the
world. Thereby, mobilizing
resources from inside and outside the country to shape the smart city development
model to suit with the locality. To implement the project, Binh Duong province
has focused on developing industrial and intelligent services; further improving the Triple Helix cooperation
model, supplement and consolidate the project organizational structure; integrating smart city related projects to
create synchronization; increasing
the continuous cooperation between government, businesses, schools/ institutes
in all activities; coordinating
to research and review the work that has been done, promote the spirit of
initiative, thereby obtaining the most optimal proposal. In addition, Binh Duong has also
promoted international connections and exchanges, maximized opportunities for
cooperation with international networks and organizations of smart, science and
technology cities in the world, especially,
the organizations that Binh Duong has participated in such as: World Technopolis
Association (WTA), Horasis, Intelliegent Community Forum (ICF). On the other hand, promoting propaganda,
applying more diverse methods to propagate to all social sectors, especially focus on Binh Duong people,
attract more active participation of the community and promote community
strength in building smart cities.
In
the coming time, Binh Duong assigns relevant departments and units to implement
key projects, including: Developing
intelligent logistics, creating motivation to attract high value-added
businesses, promoting business production; developing
Back-end semiconductor factory, a typical project of attracting high-tech
investors to Binh Duong; focus
on developing high quality human resources, especially in technology. This is an important foundation for Binh
Duong province, creating a motivation for breakthroughs, a key to attract
investment in the future.
The importance of Horasis to Binh Duong
Sharing
with the provincial web portal, Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Standing Vice Chairman of
Provincial People's Committee said, many
members of the Horasis network also want to learn more about Vietnam generally
and about Binh Duong particularly, so they proposed to continue to coordinate
with Binh Duong to organize 2019 events with a larger scale, more effectively. Provincial leaders also assessed the
effectiveness of Horasis when successfully organizing Horasis in 2018. This is a new way to attract effective
investment, create a forum to connect the government with institutes/ schools,
raise Binh Duong brand in the international arena and orient the development of
Binh Duong smart city.
During
Horasis takes place, Binh Duong will facilitate maximum connectivity and
exchange between businesses and regulators to achieve effective results. In
parallel with organizing sideline events, in reception or in direct exchange, the Organizing Committee also arranged separate working rooms for
Vietnamese and foreign businesses to meet and exchange information to explore
business cooperation opportunities. Specifically,
Horasis in 2018, Binh Duong held working sessions between Binh Duong
enterprises and foreign businesses. Typically,
Becamex IDC has signed important MOU with Bangladesh and Singapore
corporations. At Horasis 2019,
Becamex IDC will announce the project of World Trade Center Binh Duong New City-
one of the key projects of the province to promote economic development and
trade services.
Binh Duong will have fireworks at 9pm on
November 23, 2019 at the Provincial Exhibition and Convention Center
immediately after the announcement of World Trade Center Binh Duong New City.
Photo: Xuan Thi
The
World Trade Center Binh Duong New City will create opportunities for Binh Duong
businesses to reach more than 1 million global businesses to join the World
Trade Center Association (WTCA). Therefore, domestic enterprises need to well
prepare all potentials in business production, improve management and science,
technology capabilities to connect trade and participate in global value chains
as well as deeper integration in the big playing field of the WTCA.
In
particular, at Horasis 2019, the Organizing Committee will continue to organize
02 "Investment opportunities in Binh Duong province" sessions chaired
by the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee to introduce potentials and
opportunities for investment cooperation to foreign businesses participating in
the event. It is expected
that these two sessions will have hundreds of foreign enterprises
participating, exploring and seizing investment cooperation opportunities of
Vietnam generally and Binh Duong province particularly.
Dr.
Frank-Jürgen Richter – Chairman of Horasis said, Horasis
has a mission to connect multinational corporation investors in the world to
create a connection platform, seeking opportunities for global development
cooperation. Every year,
Horasis holds meetings to promote the most important challenges and solutions for
multinational corporations; therefore,
any interactive exchanges with the delegation attending Horasis will benefit
the parties. Specifically,
Horasis 2018, at the dialogue sessions, delegates came up with the most
effective solutions for economic development, in addition, companies reached agreements
as expected.
It
can be said that, with hundreds of domestic and foreign corporations attending
the Horasis, this is an opportunity for domestic businesses to market to the
world's leading corporations, thereby
promoting the brand and image of Binh Duong with businesses around the world to
promote investment attraction. At the same time, it is an opportunity for Binh
Duong to enlist the support of localities and international experts in the
construction of Binh Duong Smart City.
Horasis Asia Meeting 2019 will be held from
November 24 to November 26, 2019 at Binh Duong Convention and Exhibition Center
(Hoa Phu ward, Thu Dau Mot City). Horasis - Binh Duong 2019 brings together
more than 1,000 distinguished guests of economic groups from more than 60
countries around the world, along with distinguished guests from the Central,
Ministries, branches, local leaders and senior leaders of Vietnamese
businesses. The forum includes a series of dialogue sessions on regional and
world economic issues, new trends in technology development etc. Following the
success of the Horasis - Binh Duong 2018, Horasis - Binh Duong 2019 is
organized including 04 Horasis plenary sessions, 35 Regional Dialogue focused
on Asia and the sideline event - the "Horasis for all" Festival.