Attending were the Deputy Prime Ministers: Pham Binh Minh, Le Minh Khai, Vu Duc Dam, Le Van Thanh; Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan; members of the Government; Mr. Dinh Van An - Assistant General Secretary.

At Binh Duong bridge point, there were Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (PPC); Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of PPC; Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Vice Chairman of PPC; Mr. Nguyen Van Danh - Vice Chairman of the PPC and leaders of departments, committees and branches.

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Delegates attend the conference at Binh Duong bridge point

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that in the past 6 months, the world situation has experienced many big, fast and complicated changes. Strategic competition is increasingly fierce. The conflict in Ukraine caused the price of oil, food, foodstuffs, and input materials to rise, causing disruptions to the supply chain. Inflation increased at a high rate in most countries around the world. Many major partners and countries have changed their economic and anti-pandemic policies. The domestic situation has advantages due to inheriting the results of the past several tenures, and at the same time, many unexpected problems need to be solved such as high inflation pressure, input material prices, supply chain disruptions, etc.

In that context, under the leadership of the Politburo, the Secretariat, headed by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the participation of the entire political system, the supervision and support of the National Assembly, the consent of the people and enterprises, the support of friends, international partners, the direction and administration of the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches, localities, the Covid-19 pandemic has been controlled, the socio-economic situation has achieved many impressive results in many fields.

In addition, the socio-economic situation still has a number of difficulties that need to be further resolved, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, which can be complicated, the shortage of drugs, medical supplies, etc. which need appropriate solutions, disbursement of public investment, national target programs which need to be further promoted.

Emphasizing the need to continue to identify difficulties and challenges more than advantages and opportunities, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the delegates to discuss frankly, specifying what has been done and what has not been done in the first 6 months of the year; objective, honest, complete and comprehensive assessment of results, causes, especially subjective ones, lessons learned, difficulties and main challenges today, in particular, localities need to share good experiences as well as propose solutions to overcome difficulties, obstacles and focus in the coming time.

At the conference, the Ministries, branches and localities focused on discussing the socio-economic situation in the first 6 months of 2022; implementation of the program on socio-economic recovery and development; disbursement of public investment capital, etc.

As reported by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the progress of implementing the tasks in Resolution no. 01/NQ-CP in the second quarter of 2022 basically met the requirements, completing 72.6% of the assigned tasks. Thereby, the socio-economic situation in the first 6 months of the year achieved many positive results.

The economy had a positive recovery, GDP growth exceeded the proposed scenario, in which, GDP in the second quarter was estimated to increase by 7.72% over the same period, the highest since 2011. In the first 6 months, GDP was estimated to increase by 6.42% over the same period, higher than expected and in the same period in 2021, equivalent to the average level of the years before the pandemic.

GDP in the second quarter is estimated to increase by 7.72% over the same period, generally, in the first 6 months, GDP is estimated to increase by 6.42% over the same period last year

Notably, the fast recovery of the service sector was estimated to increase by 6.6%, 1.7 times higher than the same period last year. Many motivational localities have achieved high GRDP growth such as: Bac Giang (24.0%), Bac Ninh (14.7%), Thanh Hoa (13.41%), Quang Nam (12.8%), Khanh Hoa (12.58%), Hai Duong (11.82%), Hai Phong (11.1%), Quang Ninh (10.66%), Vinh Phuc (10.1%), Hanoi (7.79%), Da Nang (7.23%), Dong Nai (7.06%), Binh Duong (6.84%), etc.

Macro-economy continued to be stable, inflation was controlled, major balances were secured, and were highly appreciated by the international community. Production and business activities recovered quickly, basically approaching the increase at the time before the pandemic. The number of newly established enterprises and re-entering the market in the past 6 months increased by 25.4% over the same period, surpassing 100,000 enterprises for the first time; in which, the number of newly established enterprises reached over 76,000 enterprises, the highest ever.

Institutional reform continued to receive attention, removing many bottlenecks in resources for development investment. Prevention and fight against corruption and negativity were promoted. Cultural and social fields continued to be of interest. Firmly ensuring national defense and security; promoting foreign activities appropriate to the situation.

Regarding the program of socio-economic recovery and development, the implementation of support policies reached over 48,000 billion VND, of which the policies implemented by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies reached 8,888 billion VND; extension of payment of VAT, corporate income, personal income and land rent was 7.4 trillion VND; VAT and environmental tax exemption and reduction for jet fuel and gasoline was about 32.4 trillion VND. At the same time, implementing policy credit loans with interest rate support according to Decree No. 36/2022/ND-CP was 57.37 trillion VND.

Regarding public investment, disbursement until June 30, 2022 was estimated to reach 27.86% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.

On the basis of the achieved results, the conference focused on discussing key solutions to successfully implement the task of socio-economic development from now until the end of the year. At the same time, discussing solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles to implement key projects: The East North-South Expressway in the 2017-2020 period and the 2021-2025 period; expressways of Khanh Hoa-Buon Ma Thuot, Bien Hoa-Vung Tau, Chau Doc-Can Tho-Soc Trang; Ring Road 4 in Hanoi Capital Region; Ring Road 3 in Ho Chi Minh City; Long Thanh International Airport, etc.

​​Reported by Phuong Chi- Translated by Thanh Tam

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Accordingly, the provincial leaders awarded the decision to retire from July 01, 2022 for Mr. Ngo Hoang Luan - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee and Mr. Huynh Thanh Ha - Deputy Director of the Department of Health. At the same time, awarding the decision to mobilize Mr. Le Minh Quoc Cuong - Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to receive work at the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao (left cover) - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha (right cover) - Vice Chairman of the PPC present flowers and award decisions to retired comrades

The Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee also announced the Decision of the National Assembly Standing Committee on approving the election results of Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Xuan - Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union to hold the position of Deputy Head of the Delegation in charge of the Provincial Delegation of the 15^th National Assembly Deputies.

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Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao (left cover) - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha (right cover) - Vice Chairman of the PPC present flowers and award the decision to mobilize to Mr. Le Minh Quoc Cuong and decision to approve the election results of the National Assembly Standing Committee to Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Xuan

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao highly appreciated the contributions of Mr. Ngo Hoang Luan and Mr. Huynh Thanh Ha during their work, making positive contributions to the development of the Internal affairs branch, the Health branch as well as the general development of the province. The Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee wished that the retired comrades will continue to share their work experiences and actively participate in social work in the locality.

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Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee speaks at the ceremony

Congratulations to the comrades on receiving the new task, the Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee wished that the comrades will continue to strive in all tasks, constantly learn, and do their best to successfully complete the assigned tasks, contributing to the construction of a growing province.

​Reported by Mai Xuan- Quoc Chien- Translated by Thanh Tam

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Attending were Ms. Bui Thi Minh Hoai - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Mass Mobilization; Ms. Ha Thi Nga - Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Women's Union; Ms. Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Vice President of the State.

On the side of Binh Duong province, there were Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the PPC; Ms. Nguyen Minh Thuy - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Organization Committee of Provincial Party Committee; Ms. Truong Thi Bich Hanh - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Propaganda and Training Commission of Provincial Party Committee.

Delegates attend the program

After 8 months of implementation (from October 2021), the Women's Union at all levels from Central to local levels has mobilized, connected, supported and sponsor 10,774 orphans in difficult circumstances. In which, there are nearly 2,000 orphans due to Covid-19 in need of support and more than 8,000 orphans due to other causes. Particularly during the peak period to respond to Vietnam Family Day 2022, the Women's Unions of provinces, cities and units registered to sponsor more than 5,300 children. In Binh Duong, nearly 50 organizations, individuals and entrepreneurs have pioneered to sponsor 279 orphans with a total amount of over 3 billion VND in 2021.

Ms. Ha Thi Nga - President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union speaks at the opening of the Program

Speaking at the opening of the Program, Ms. Ha Thi Nga called on organizations and individuals to continue to extend their loving arms and accompany the Program so that disadvantaged children and orphans can develop comprehensively in their families and communities like other children, together spreading the message: "No orphans are left behind. Let's take action for a happy, bright future of children". She believed that, with a loving heart, a compassionate heart and the joint contribution of agencies, organizations, enterprises and individuals, the dynamism and creativity of Women's Unions at all levels throughout the country, surely orphans will grow up in peace and tranquility.

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Chairman of the PPC Vo Van Minh speaks at the Program

Speaking at the program, Chairman of the PPC Vo Van Minh wished all levels, branches and sponsors, benefactors, enterprises inside and outside the province to join hands with the Women's Union at all levels to take more care of children, relieve pain and build new families, so that children have a place to gather, reunite, and grow up in everyone's love. The social community's attention and support, both materially and spiritually, will certainly be a great source of encouragement for children to have more efforts to rise up and strive towards a bright future.

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 Exchange with typical godmother - child, donating bicycles to 2 Ede brothers who lost their mother due to Covid-19

Delegates donate gifts to godmother - child couples

Many meaningful activities took place at the Program: Screening of reports "Godmother's Imprint", "The connection journey of the Ede godmother and child", "Kind mothers", "Mother of many children"; exchange with "Godmothers and children"; watching Ao dai performances of mothers and children; donating gifts for mother and child couples.

Exchange with the guest MC Quyen Linh - Safety Ambassador for Women and Children

On this occasion, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union thanked 50 organizations and individuals for sponsoring orphans, contributing to the implementation of social security policies and taking care of disadvantaged children in Binh Duong Province.

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Presenting gratitude awards to individuals, organizations and units accompanying the Binh Duong Women's Union to implement the "Godmother - love and share" program

​Reported by  Yen Nhi- Quoc Chien- Translated by Thanh Tam​

​Also in attendance were Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (PPC) and leaders of departments, committees and branches.

At the meeting, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Hoang Thao informed the Delegation of some contents about the socio-economic development situation and investment attraction in Binh Duong province in the first 6 months of 2022. Over the years, the province has always made efforts to improve the investment environment, reform administrative procedures, and enhance competitiveness. As of April 2022, Binh Duong province has 18 investment projects of German enterprises with a total investment capital of more than 55 million USD. Investment in development of education and training of high-quality human resources is also paid special attention by the province. Besides promoting socio-economic development, Binh Duong also actively expands bilateral and multilateral cooperation. In the coming time, Binh Duong will continue to explore and promote the establishment of friendly cooperative relations between the province and Darmstadt city (Hessen state, Federal Republic of Germany). This is a science city, thereby continuing to connect and promote cooperation in the field of science and technology; smart city development; digital city, etc.

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Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Hoang Thao receives Mr. Manuel Stock - Chief of Office of the Ministry of Science and Arts of Hessen State, Federal Republic of Germany

Mr. Manuel Stock congratulated Binh Duong on the achievements in recent years. He believed that the role of high-quality human resources is very important for the development of a country. Vietnamese-German University (VGU) is the first university in the project of building a new model university, established on the basis of an inter-governmental agreement between Vietnam and Germany, starting with the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam and the Ministry of Science and Arts of Hessen state. With a pioneering and ambitious model, the university harmoniously combines the Vietnamese higher education curriculum framework with German academic models and standards. This is the result of a special bilateral effort between the Governments of Vietnam and Germany. To date, the university has achieved many achievements and is proud to assume its role as a competent partner for academia, industry and society at large.

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Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Hoang Thao presents a souvenir to Mr. Manuel Stock

He expressed his joy and excitement when VGU's new campus in Binh Duong province is about to be completed and put into operation. This will be the premise to continue writing the success story for VGU as well as the cooperation relationship between Vietnam and Germany, training human resources for sustainable development, actively contributing to the development of Vietnam in general and Binh Duong in particular.

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Chairman of the PPC Nguyen Loc Ha presents a souvenir to Ms. Josefine Wallat - Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ho Chi Minh City

Talking more with the delegation, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Hoang Thao said that in March 2022, the delegation of Binh Duong province visited and worked with Hessen state on cooperation between the two sides and promoted the signing of a cooperation agreement in the field of building a parallel vocational training school according to the German model. In the coming time, Binh Duong wishes to learn and cooperate in the field of training and development of high-quality human resources with partners in Hessen state and in Germany. Binh Duong province will support and create favorable conditions for VGU, and at the same time highly appreciate the training and research activities of the University, contributing to providing high quality human resources for Binh Duong in particular and the Southeast region in general.

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Delegates take a souvenir photo

​Reported by Doan Trang- Translated by Thanh Tam​

​Attending the ceremony were Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of National Defense; Mr. Louis Zacharilla - Co-Founder of ICF; Mr. Peter Portheine - Former Member of Noord Brabant Regional Council (Netherlands), member of Binh Duong Smart City Executive Board; representative leaders of Deajeon city (Korea), Champasak province (Laos), Kratie province (Cambodia) and representatives of Consulates General and Foreign Enterprise Associations in Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong Province.

On the side of Binh Duong province, attending were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of the National Assembly Deputies; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao – Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (PPC); Mr. Nguyen Van Loc - Member of the Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Commission for Mass Mobilization of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; representative leaders of provincial departments, committees and branches.

List of Intelligent Communities honored by ICF as TOP 7 of 2022

After 4 consecutive times in TOP 21 (Smart 21) and in TOP 7 for the first time in 2021, Binh Duong Smart Region continues to be recognized by ICF as in TOP 7 communities with smart development strategies in the world of 2022.

Honoring the TOP 7 Intelligent Communities of 2022 is the first international event held in Binh Duong after the Covid-19 pandemic with the theme "Post-Pandemic Recovery, how digital innovation drives growth in our community".

To evaluate a city reaching TOP 7, ICF has researched and evaluated hundreds of cities around the world, from which to choose TOP 21 (SMART 21). TOP 21 will continue to be compared and evaluated thoroughly, directly and indirectly, thereby selecting the TOP 7 cities with the smartest development strategies.

A region entering the TOP 7, first of all needs to satisfy 6 rigorous criteria set forth by ICF, including: Connectivity - Broadband; Labor force; Innovation; Equal access to digital; Advocacy and Sustainability.

Permanent Vice Chairman of the PPC Mai Hung Dung speaks at the honoring ceremony

Speaking at the honoring ceremony, Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Permanent Vice Chairman of the PPC, Head of Binh Duong Smart City Executive Board congratulated Binh Duong on once again being honored in the TOP 7 Intelligent Communities of 2022. He emphasized, TOP 7 is not the final destination of Binh Duong, but it is necessary to try harder so that Binh Duong is always a place worth investing, studying and living. He expressed his desire to cooperate with smart and prosperous cities around the world in the coming time. The provincial leader thanked Becamex IDC Corp for always accompanying and contributing to the development of Binh Duong province and Binh Duong Smart City. At the same time, he thanked Mr. Louis Zacharilla - Co-founder of ICF and his associates for supporting Binh Duong in building a smart city.

With the right strategies and firm and steady development steps of Binh Duong during the past time, the implementation of major breakthrough strategies, typically the Binh Duong Innovation Region Project - the focus of the Binh Duong Smart City Project in the upcoming development period, Binh Duong has been honored by ICF in the TOP 7 communities with typical smart city development strategies in the world of 2022. 

​Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Thanh Tam

Attending the ceremony, on the side of the guests were Mr. Tran Tuan Anh - Member of the Politburo, Head of the Party Central Committee's Economic Commission; Mr. Huynh Thanh Dat - Member of the Party Central Committee (PCC), Minister of Science and Technology; Mr. Nguyen Minh Vu - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Prof. Dr. Ta Ngoc Tan – Permanent Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council; Mr. Louis Zacharilla – Co-Founder of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF); experts, scientists, enterprises; representative leaders of a number of provinces and cities.

On the side of Binh Duong province, attending were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the PCC, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Binh Duong Provincial People's Committee (PPC); Mr. Nguyen Van Hung - Board of Directors' Chairman of Becamex Corp; and representatives of Consulate Generals and foreign enterprise associations; leaders of ministries, departments, committees, branches, localities inside and outside the province.

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Delegates attend the ceremony

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a prestigious international organization so far has more than 180 members that are prosperous smart cities around the world. Every year, ICF organizes to honor communities with typical strategies, which are concretized by specific projects. After selecting SMART21 as a group of 21 typical cities, ICF continued to select TOP 7 and organize the honor in a member city, after 2021 it was held in New York, USA, this year, Binh Duong province was selected by ICF as the host of the Honor Ceremony of TOP 7 ICF Intelligent Communities of 2022.

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The PPC's Economic Commission presents a flower stand to congratulate the event

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Louis Zacharilla - Co-Founder of ICF said: ICF is the Intelligent Community Forum with global influence, with 6 criteria set out including: Connectivity - Broadband; Labor force; Innovation; Equal access to digital; Advocacy and Sustainability. Currently, the works of changing industry, urban areas and smart cities are developing most strongly, especially in Binh Duong. Along with that, technology and digital transformation are growing rapidly. This innovation is allowing workers to be more creative, work in a better, more comfortable environment, thereby creating new business types more effectively and helping society to progress more and more.

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Mr. Louis Zacharilla - Co-Founder of ICF speaks at the opening of the ceremony

"We will tell the world about Vietnam's achievements and tell the story of Binh Duong, which is a place to realize dreams, develop intelligence and innovate. We would like to thank Binh Duong and Becamex for accompanying ICF to organize the program of Honoring TOP 7 Intelligent Communities of 2022 this time" - Mr. Louis Zacharilla added.

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Mr. Tran Tuan Anh - Member of the Politburo, Head of the PPC's Economic Commission speaks to congratulate the event

Attending and speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Tran Tuan Anh – Member of the Politburo, Head of the PCC's Economic Commission highly appreciated Binh Duong's breakthrough and pioneering approach in building a smart city. In particular, Binh Duong's proactive participation and integration into the world community shows its initiative in local governance, but still ensures compliance with the orientations, guidelines and policies of the Party and State on smart city development. Especially the implementation of some good models and practices in Binh Duong in smart city construction, typically applying the triple helix model (Government; Enterprises; Universities – Research Institutes) or building a typical 5-layer model in the Binh Duong Innovation Region Project from planning urban infrastructure, technical infrastructure, and traffic to building a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship; comprehensively developing and balancing the economy; digital transformation, development of digital economy and digital society; developing and attracting human resources.

In addition, the Head of the PCC's Economic Commission also suggested that Binh Duong province adhere to the Party's viewpoints, guidelines and policies on urbanization and sustainable urban development; should pay attention to promoting the initiative, creativity, active participation of the enterprise community and people, international cooperation in organizing the implementation of the Smart City Project for the 2021-2025 period. It is necessary to focus on continuing to build an increasingly powerful digital and innovation ecosystem to bring a better life and develop Binh Duong to become "smarter" and more livable. He hoped that ICF will continue to support Binh Duong in shaping and connecting more deeply with other members of the Forum to exchange, learn and further improve the development model of the province."

Currently, in Vietnam, up to 44/63 provinces and cities directly under the Central Government have built smart urban development projects, Binh Duong is a number of localities implementing smart city construction with many positive results.

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Chairman of the PPC Vo Van Minh speaks in response

Speaking in response, Mr. Vo Van Minh - Chairman of Binh Duong PPC said that since 2016, Binh Duong has developed the Binh Duong Smart City Project to create a mechanism for knowledge transfer in society between the state, universities and enterprises, thereby stimulating creativity in the economy, creating changes that affect all social classes, gradually transforming from labor-intensive to knowledge-intensive, technology-intensive, helping investors solve their problems and Binh Duong to solve their own. In order to learn, strengthen and realize those perceptions, Binh Duong actively participates in extensive connections with the international community to seek out communities with similar development views to share and learn from each other, that's why Binh Duong has become a member of ICF.

Joining ICF helps Binh Duong connect and learn many things from other members in the world, thereby affirming and continuing to persevere with the direction that Binh Duong authorities, people and enterprises have chosen. Being honored by ICF 4 times in a row in TOP 21 and in 2021 being honored in TOP 7 cities with typical smart city development strategies affirms that the choice of approach of Binh Duong Smart City Project is in line with the general trend of the world.

Within the framework of the Opening Ceremony of the event to honor TOP7 Intelligent Communities, a Forum with the theme "Post-pandemic recovery, how digital innovation drives growth in our community" took place, for each community to voice their views on the development of smart cities, smart communities, and share common vision and values.

After the opening ceremony, the delegates listened to Ohio State (USA) and Binh Duong province presented a presentation on building a smart city.

​​​Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Thanh Tam

Co-chairing the conference were Mr. Phan Dinh Trac - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC), Head of the PCC's Commission for Internal Affairs, Permanent Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for Project Development; Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh - Politburo member, Secretary of the PCC, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court; Mr. Do Van Chien - Secretary of the PCC, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; Mr. Nguyen Khac Dinh - Member of the PCC, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly.

Attending were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the PCC, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Binh Duong Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies and leaders of the Provincial Party Committees and City Party Committees of 21 localities in the Southern region.

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State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and leaders of Central Committees and Branches chair the conference

Science and democracy in Project development

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Mr. Phan Dinh Trac - Politburo member, Secretary of PCC, Head of the PCC's Commission for Internal Affairs, Permanent Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for Project Development said that this is the third conference after 02 consultation conferences were held in the Northern region and the Central region - Central Highlands. The Draft project was focused on directing the development and completion by the Steering Committee on the basis of distilling 27 specialized topics of Party committees at all levels, Party organizations under the Central Government, and the contributions of experts, scientists, and managers with theoretical and practical experience. He suggested that the delegates promote the sense of responsibility, exchange ideas frankly focusing on 03 important contents: Advantages, limitations, causes and lessons learned in building Vietnam's law-governed socialist state over the past time; viewpoints, goals, breakthroughs, directions, tasks and solutions for building and perfecting Vietnam's law-governed socialist state by 2030, with a vision to 2045; important issues, there are different opinions related to the locality such as: the relationship between Party leadership, State management, people's mastery, promoting the people's right to mastery; renewing the mechanism of decentralization; control of State power, etc.

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Head of the PCC's Commission for Internal Affairs Phan Dinh Trac speaks at the opening of the conference

The conference received 18 comments that basically agreed with the contents expressed in the draft Project. At the same time, it raised a number of issues arising from practice such as the need to evaluate limitations, overlaps and contradictions between legal documents, strengthen discipline and rules, clearly define responsibilities and handle sanctions for organizations and individuals performing the task of law-making in order to limit group interests; perfect the state power control mechanism in the direction of streamlining and stability; strengthen measures to promote people's power and people's right to mastery; stipulate the right to appeal the Constitution; promote decentralization for localities, increase autonomy, self-responsibility associated with the responsibility of the head and accountability, etc.

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Secretary of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi speaks at the conference

On behalf of Binh Duong Provincial Standing Party Committee to comment on the draft Project, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi said that it is necessary to have a specific and clear decentralization in the direction that the Central Government does not act on behalf of local governments, but organizes the supervision, inspection and examination of local governments in the performance of their duties. According to him, the assignment of decentralization along with inspection, supervision and control of power in the organization and operation of the State is a very important task that has been clearly shown in the Party's resolutions, institutionalized in the Constitution and laws, implemented and achieved many achievements in practice. However, it is still not strong enough; there are many areas that have not brought into full play the roles, responsibilities and initiative of the grassroots, especially in the field of economy, human resource management (planning, investment in building socio-economic infrastructure, etc.). Therefore, Binh Duong proposed to decentralize more strongly between the central and local governments, between superiors and subordinates, at the same time, build a strict power control mechanism by regulations and laws, ensure democracy, publicity, transparency, promote accountability and strengthen inspection and supervision. The Secretary also said that it is necessary to focus on further perfecting the legal system, ensuring the people's right to mastery, perfecting the organization of local government in accordance with rural - urban areas, effectively overcoming the situation of "wearing the same institutional shirt", etc.

High unity of science, theory and practice

Speaking at the end of the conference, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc assessed that the City Party Committees and Provincial Party Committees in Southern region have raised many enthusiastic, responsible, frank and democratic opinions on the key contents of the Project. Many comments are directly related to the organization and operation of the Party committees and local authorities; accurately reflect the thoughts and aspirations of the majority of cadres, party members and people. Thereby, creating more motivation and determination to lead the Party and State to lead and direct the successful implementation of the task of building and perfecting the law-governed socialist state of the people, by the people, for the people.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed: "In terms of awareness, we have reached a high consensus on core and important scientific, theoretical and political-legal practical issues regarding the law-governed state and Vietnam's law-governed socialist state for inclusion in the Project".

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State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the conclusion of the conference

Accordingly, the law-governed state is a method of organizing State power on the basis of respect for the Constitution and the law to ensure the democratic nature of the State. Emphasizing the progressive values of the law-governed state, which have been widely recognized and brought success to many countries around the world, the Sate President also mentioned the successes in building Vietnam's law-governed socialist state over the past time, and at the same time, the document of the 13^th Party Congress affirmed: Building and perfecting Vietnam's law-governed socialist state of the people, by the people and for the people led by the Party is the central task of the political system reform.

Regarding the guiding point of view, it is consistent with the guiding view of the Central Government that the entire process of building and perfecting Vietnam's law-governed socialist state must always be under the leadership of the Party, on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, strengthen the inheritance and promotion of the nation's fine traditions, achievements and practical experience in national construction and development; selectively absorb international experiences, suitable to Vietnam's conditions and circumstances; to maintain political stability; maintain the socialist orientation and ensure better and better socialist democracy.

Delineating objectives, tasks and solutions of the Strategy for building and perfecting Vietnam's law-governed socialist state in 02 phases. From now to 2030, identifying and organizing the implementation of goals, tasks and solutions within the framework of the 2011 National Development Platform and the 2013 Constitution. From after 2030 to 2045, it will continue to implement the long-term goals and tasks of the Strategy set out and implement new orientations to perfect Vietnam's law-governed socialist state, after having the policy amending the Platform and Constitution.

After this conference, the State President suggested that the Provincial Party Committees and City Party Committees continue to organize a thorough study to give written comments on the draft Project. The PCC's Commission for Internal Affairs and the Project Editorial Team urgently synthesize, study and collect opinions of the delegates in this conference to finalize the draft project and submit it to the Politburo for comments.

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State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc presents the painting of the Presidential Palace to Binh Duong provincial Party Committee on the occasion of attending the conference

​Reported by Phuong Chi- Quoc Chien- Translated by Thanh Tam

Accompanying him were Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (PPC); Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of PPC together with leaders of departments, committees and branches.

At the meeting, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi emphasized that Binh Duong is aiming to build a developed, fair, transparent, people-centred society. The Secretary evaluated the theme of the event to honor Top 7 Intelligent Communities of 2022: "Post-Pandemic Recovery, how digital innovation drives growth in our communities" is very consistent with the views and orientations of the Vietnamese Government as well as intelligent communities, including Binh Duong. At the same time, the province is very honored to hold an event to honor the Top 7 Intelligent Communities of 2022.

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Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi receives Mr. Louis Zacharilla - Co-Founder of ICF

The Provincial Party Committee Secretary said that over the past years, the province has always focused on investing in implementing programs to build intelligent communities according to ICF's criteria. From now to 2025, Binh Duong will mobilize all efforts to invest in building a smart city and an innovation zone with the aspiration to form a smart city to serve people and enterprises. Through this event, Binh Duong wishes to learn, absorb suggestions and share from smart cities in the world; contribute to Binh Duong to well implement the ICF's criteria, successfully build a Smart City.

​ Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi presents a souvenir to Mr. Louis Zacharilla

Talking to provincial leaders, Mr. Louis Zacharilla congratulated Binh Duong on the achievements achieved after 25 years of construction and development as well as the province's strategic orientations in the coming time, including building a smart city in accordance with ICF's criteria. In addition to honoring the Top 7 Intelligent Communities, the event will focus on discussing, exchanging and giving solutions to the problem of overcoming difficulties and recovering the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic to continue sustainable development. ICF will synthesize the best answers to find shared solutions in the ICF community. Mr. Louis Zacharilla expressed his impression of Binh Duong's outstanding economic growth after the Covid-19 pandemic and wanted the province to share lessons learned with the ICF community; at the same time, when given the opportunity, will introduce potential investors to explore investment opportunities in Binh Duong.

Chairman of the PPC Vo Van Minh presents a souvenir to Mr. Mathew Owen - CEO of ICF

​Reported by Doan Trang- Translated by Thanh Tam

​Accompanied by Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee (PPC); Ms. Truong Thi Bich Hanh - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Propaganda and Training Commission of Provincial Party Committee and leaders of departments, committees and branches of the province.

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Provincial leaders visit and congratulate Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day at Binh Duong Newspaper

At the places visited, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao sent greetings to the collective of officials, reporters, editors, technicians, employees of Binh Duong Newspaper, Binh Duong Radio - Television Station, Provincial Journalists Association on the occasion of the 97^th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day. At the same time, he highly appreciated the positive contributions of the provincial press agencies over the past time, especially in the propaganda of the Party's lines and guidelines, the State's policies and laws, the achievements socio-economic development of the province. In the coming time, the Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee asked the provincial press agencies to promote the achieved results, continue to propagate the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws, propagate the events and activities of the province to readers and people, contributing to the development of Binh Duong province more and more.

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Provincial leaders visit and congratulate the Provincial Journalists Association on the occasion of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day

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Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao (3^rd from left) - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee presents a flower stand from the Provincial Party Committee - People's Council - People's Committee - Provincial Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front to congratulate the Provincial Journalists Association on the occasion of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day

Leaders of Binh Duong Newspaper, Binh Duong Radio - Television Station, Provincial Journalists Association reported on the unit's operation in the past time, the key tasks in the coming time, and wished that the provincial leaders would continue to pay attention to creating favorable conditions for the press to better perform their assigned political tasks. Officials, reporters and employees of the provincial press agencies are constantly studying to improve their professional qualifications and skills to continue to have many quality articles in the coming time.

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Provincial leaders visit and congratulate officials, reporters, and technicians of Binh Duong Radio - Television Station

 ​​Reported by Phuong Chi- Translated by Thanh Tam

​On June 02, 2022, Binh Duong PPC issued a plan to organize an event to honor the Top7 Intelligent Communities in the world. Accordingly, the Honor event will be held for 2 days June 20-21, 2022 at the Binh Duong Convention and Exhibition Center with the theme "Post-Pandemic Recovery, how digital innovation drives growth in our communities". It is expected that there will be 100 domestic guests (leaders of the Government, leaders of ministries, central branches and leader representatives of some provinces, cities, enterprises, communities, etc.; 100 foreign guests (ICF leaders, leaders of some foreign countries and localities, international organizations, multinational corporations; professors, speakers of a number of research institutes and universities around the world); 200 internal guests of the province (leaders of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, Provincial Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; leaders of departments, committees, branches, mass organizations, localities and enterprises in Binh Duong province, institutes - universities, colleges, etc.).

Overview of the meeting

The event is expected to include the following main programs: Gala Dinner, which is a party to honor the world's Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2022; conference program with guests being senior leaders of the Government, Ministries, branches of Vietnam and invited countries; side event Green and sustainable living exhibition; program to visit Binh Duong's works and projects, serving Binh Duong community and developing Smart City.

The meeting heard from the units reporting on the preparation of invitations, detailed program scripts, content of programs and organization of event's activities; plans to ensure political security, social order and safety, fire prevention and fighting; propaganda work; plan to welcome guests; health care, etc. Basically, the preparation is going according to the planned schedule.

Concluding the meeting, Mr. Mai Hung Dung basically agreed with the suggestions of the units. Permanent Vice Chairman of the PPC emphasized that the event to honor Top7 of 2022 is an important international event, with the goal of bringing international quality; is a very favorable opportunity for Binh Duong province, enterprises and institutions to exchange and connect with the global Intelligent Community network, improving their ability to find new opportunities and partners, etc., therefore, units need to focus on implementing assigned tasks. Note that in the program content, it is necessary to choose special cultural performances with characteristics of the national culture.

For the promotion of the event, the Propaganda Subcommittee promotes propaganda on the mass media before, during and after the event.

​Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Thanh Tam

Attending the ceremony were Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee (PPC); Mr. Nguyen Van Hung - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Becamex IDC Corp; leader representatives of departments, branches and visitors.

Taking place from June 08 to 10, 2022, the Vietnam Industrial & Manufacturing Fair 2022 (referred to as VIMF 2022) will introduce machinery and equipment products, tools, materials, engineering technologies applied to the manufacturing industry, mechanical engineering, automation and supporting industries displayed on an area close to 10,000 m2, gathering more than 300 booths of enterprises and corporations from 15 countries and territories (Singapore, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Italy, Germany, USA, etc.) such as: Autonics Vina, Mitsubishi Electric, THACO Industries, 3M, Thinh Qua, Logiform, SICKs, DAT Tech, Beckhoff, Swisslog, Interroll Thailand, Tai Chung Seiki Vietnam, Wustech, Helukabel, Mitutoyo, Servo Dynamics, Yale, etc.

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Delegates cut the ribbon to open VIMF 2022

At VIMF 2022, there are many trade and investment promotion activities between domestic and foreign enterprises. In which, the highlight is the Industry 4.0 technology zone (I4.0Z); connect enterprises; Specialized seminar with 11 topics that are trending at the present time and in the future along with new technology solutions applied practically in industrial production, creating opportunities for attendees to listen and interact with experts from Vietnam and a number of countries; Purchasing area brings together "purchasing" groups from factories, manufacturers, contractors, projects, end users, group of solutions for enterprises to have the opportunity to directly contact, catch up with trends, enhance competitiveness in the market, sign contracts at the Fair; Robot demonstration.

Speaking at the ceremony, Permanent Vice Chairman of the PPC Mai Hung Dung said, in recent years, the increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Binh Duong province has always been high and stable; the economic structure has shifted in the right direction, whereby industry still accounts for the majority share in the province's economic development; the Industrial production index in the 2016-2020 period of Binh Duong province alone increased by an average of 9.3%/year.

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Permanent Vice Chairman of the PPC Mai Hung Dung speaks at the ceremony

Regarding the industry, over the course of more than 20 years of development, Binh Duong province has always been consistent with the motto "spreading flower mats to invite investment" and constantly reforming administrative procedures to create maximum advantages for enterprises. By the end of May 2022, Binh Duong has 27 industrial parks (out of a total of 29 industrial parks) and 09 industrial clusters (out of a total of 12 industrial clusters) that have been put into operation. Accumulated to May 2022, Binh Duong province has attracted 4,047 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with a total investment capital of 39.5 billion USD; is one of the three provinces and cities attracting the most FDI in the country.

From those successes, in order to create a breakthrough and innovation in attracting investment in the province, Binh Duong PPC has oriented to perfect institutions and policies, improve the quality and efficiency of foreign investment cooperation by 2030 in the province, in order to focus on industrial development in the direction of prioritizing production projects with high added technology and value, encouraging investment in the development of supporting industries in the fields of manufacturing and assembling machinery, equipment, and electronics; develop high-tech agriculture and services; focus on implementing the project of building a smart city with a triple helix model (Enterprise - Government - University).

"With that spirit, I hope, domestic and foreign associations, enterprises and units participating in this Fair can share advances in technology development, industry and automation, thereby finding new technological solutions to innovate production, improve the quality and competitiveness of Vietnam's products and services in the world market" - emphasized Mr. Mai Hung Dung.

Here are some pictures recorded by Binh Duong Portal at the Opening Ceremony of VIMF 2022:

Provincial leaders and delegates visit booths introducing products of corporations and enterprises

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Vas Comparation's "Made in Vietnam" technology products manufactured by Vietnamese engineers serving the mechanical industry are highly appreciated by partners.​​

The fair has attracted a large number of customers to visit and learn about cooperation opportunities

Large corporations in the world participate in the Fair 

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Robot products are the highlight of the Fair, attracting a large number of visitors

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Machinery and equipment products, tools, materials, and technical technologies applied to the manufacturing industry, mechanical engineering, automation and supporting industries are introduced at the Fair

​Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Thanh Tam

VIMF 2022 promises to make Industry 4.0 an interesting and accessible topic for enterprises and visitors alike. After many years of successful organization in Binh Duong and other provinces and cities with strong industrial development, VIMF 2022 has become a reputable brand and an effective bridge, an ideal destination between domestic and foreign manufacturers, fabricators, suppliers and traders.

This year, VIMF cooperates with Vietnam Industrial Automation Fiesta 2022 (VIAF 2022), VMAT 2022, opening from 9:00 to 17:00 on June 08 - 10, 2022 at WTC Expo, Binh Duong New City.

VIMF/VIAF/VMAT 2022 is the 14^th International Fair specialized in machinery, equipment, tools, materials, engineering technology applied to manufacturing, mechanical engineering, automation and supporting industries in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, being held in Binh Duong for the 4^th time, displayed on an area of nearly 10,000 m2, gathering more than 300 booths from 15 countries and territories (Singapore, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Italy, Germany, USA, etc.), with the participation of large units, enterprises and corporations such as: Autonics Vina, Mitsubishi Electric, THACO Industries, 3M, Thinh Qua, Logiform, SICKs, DAT Tech, Beckhoff, Swisslog, Interroll Thailand, Tai Chung Seiki Viet Nam, Wustech, Helukabel, Mitutoyo, Servo Dynamics, Yale, etc.

At VIMF/VIAF/VMAT 2022, there are many trade and investment promotion activities between domestic and foreign enterprises. In particular, the 4.0 technology zone (I4.0Z) gathers large companies and corporations to introduce advanced technologies, technical services and solutions applied in the manufacturing and fabricating industries to increase labor productivity, save time and operate smart factories. Solutions and technologies in the 4.0 zone include: IOT: Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Digitization, Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Ecosystem, Industrial Solutions, Technology Innovation.

Connect enterprises offers opportunities to help Vietnamese enterprises increase exports, develop markets and improve economic value, and expand business networks. The Organizing Committee has created a connection channel before the fair to establish convenient and effective transactions.

Specialized seminar with 11 topics that are trending at the moment and in the future along with new technology solutions applied practically in industrial production, creating opportunities for attendees to listen and interact with experts from Vietnam and some countries.

Purchasing area gathers "purchasing" groups from factories, manufacturers, contractors, projects, end users, and solution groups so that enterprises have the opportunity to interact directly, catch up with trends, enhance competitiveness in the market, sign contracts at the fair.

Robot demonstration, fair units demonstrate robots to promote according to the time frame specified by the Organizing Committee. This is a program to attract visitors and promote the development of the robot industry in Vietnam.

In 2022, the VIMF/VIAF/VMAT Fair series will be held throughout the 3 regions of the South, Central and North with the participation of thousands of domestic and foreign enterprises with the participation of thousands of domestic and foreign enterprises with the largest scale ever in the hope of being a strategic lever to help enterprises bounce back after being heavily affected by Covid-19 to grow stronger and reach out further.

Detailed information about the Fair and side events will be posted on the Website: www.vietnamindustrialfiesta.com.vn and Fanpage www.facebook.com/VietnamIndustrialAndManufacturingFair

​Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Thanh Tam​

At the meeting, Vice Chairman of the PPC Nguyen Loc Ha briefly informed the delegation about Binh Duong's socio-economic development and investment attraction. Up to now, Korea is currently ranked 5^th among 65 countries and territories investing in Binh Duong with 761 projects and a total investment capital of 3 billion 257 million USD. The main fields of investment are ancillary products for the automotive, medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food processing industries, industrial production of textile and footwear products, etc. Some enterprises with large investment capital such as: Kolon Group, Kyung Bang Vietnam Company, Kumho Tire Vietnam Company, DCT Partners Vietnam, Lotte Vietnam Trading Center, etc.

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Vice Chairman of the PPC Nguyen Loc Ha receives Mr. Lee Dong Ki - Chairman and CEO of COEX

In addition to implementing strategies for sustainable socio-economic development, Binh Duong also aims to build a smart city and an innovative region. Vice Chairman of the PPC acknowledged and thanked the contributions of Korean enterprises as well as associations to the development achievements of Binh Duong over the past time.

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Vice Chairman of the PPC Nguyen Loc Ha presents a souvenir to Mr. Lee Dong Ki

Talking to provincial leaders, Mr. Lee Dong Ki said that in March 2021, KITA and COEX signed a contract with Becamex IDC Corp on the operation of the World Trade Center Binh Duong New City (WTC Binh Duong). WTC Binh Duong is the largest trade and exhibition center in Vietnam, with a total floor area of 22,000 m², including 11,679 m² of indoor exhibition space and 7,935 m² of outdoor exhibition space; plays an important role as an important infrastructure connecting business, culture and tourism between Korea and Vietnam, as well as a trade bridge, connecting Korean enterprises with Binh Duong in particular and Vietnam in general.

COEX will send management personnel with extensive practical experience in areas such as exhibition organization and infrastructure operation to Vietnam. These human resources will jointly manage from the overall planning of activities to the promotion strategy for WTC Binh Duong. In the near future, KITA and COEX plan to enhance the competitiveness of this venue, such as expanding exhibition content, organizing exhibitions in combination with online technologies.

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Mr. Lee Dong Ki presents a souvenir to Vice Chairman of the PPC Nguyen Loc Ha

Mr. Lee Dong Ki hopes to continue to receive the attention and support from the Binh Duong provincial government so that WTC Binh Duong has more meaningful exhibition activities, contributing to the overall socio-economic development of the province.

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Delegates take a souvenir photo

​Reported by Doan Trang- Translated by Thanh Tam

​1. Fraudulent appropriation of property impersonating an employee of a Justice agency, a Police agency

The subjects used many different scenarios such as: Pretending to be a postal staff to call to receive the parcel; telecommunications staff call to notify the debt of charges; traffic police call to report cold fines, causing an accident to flee, etc. They contact the victim to exploit personal information, then use that information to fake arrest and prosecution orders of the police agency to threaten the victim (often report victims related to transnational drug trafficking rings, money laundering), ask the victim to transfer money to an account provided by them for investigation, then appropriate or ask the victim to register a bank account by themselves, transfer money to that account, then provide account, password, OTP code for the subjects, then they withdraw money in the account to appropriate.

2. Fraudulent participation in the exchange game application, enticing foreign exchange investments on fake exchanges

Subjects post advertisements, links on social networking sites with content sharing how to make easy money in their spare time to entice people to be curious to learn, when people click on it, subjects claiming to be coordinators and guides will read contact orders and put them into chat groups with many virtual chat accounts (most of the accounts on these chat groups are owned by the subjects) to guide people to download winning game applications such as: Max3d, Doji, Coin Base, etc. register an account and participate in depositing and placing orders according to the guide reading the order (rolling chickens, creating crowd effects). The goal is to beat the player's greed, so the subjects let the player win the first time with a small amount of money and let the player withdraw the profit to build trust, then the subjects entice the player to participate in orders with large amounts of money, when the player submits a withdrawal request, the subject will report an instant withdrawal error and ask to pay different premiums to withdrawal requests processed, etc. Just like that, the subject draws and asks the borrower to pay a lot of fees. In fact, after the customer has made a deposit, he/she will not be able to withdraw any money.

3. People are scammed to appropriate property when being lured by subjects to join online sales collaborators

Subjects message or use social network accounts to post recruitment collaborators to buy and sell goods on e-commerce platforms such as Shoppe, Lazada, Tiki, etc. After contacting job seekers, the subjects require them to pay for their orders first and then receive a refund of the principal plus a "commission" discount. For the first orders of small value, collaborators will be quickly paid with a "commission" as promised to build trust and fight greed because making money is too easy. When the collaborator's order amount is larger and larger, the subjects will play tricks to appropriate.

4. Fraudulent appropriation of property through impersonation of financial companies lending money online

The tricks of the subjects are to offer loans to victims with many incentives, simple procedures without appraisal, disbursement within 15 minutes, large loan limits, low interest rates, etc. to attract customers. The subject will then ask the customer to install an online loan app to apply for a loan app. In order for customers to trust, subjects send loan approval notices to customers (who use fake seals of banks) and are required to log in to the app to disburse. The subject will then report a disbursement error and ask to pay money to process the loan, etc. Just like that, the subject draws and asks the borrower to pay a lot of fees. In fact, after the customer completes the payment, he/she will not receive any disbursement and lose the entire amount paid as requested.

5. Spoofing bank messages to send fake access links to steal bank account information

With an electronic device that functions as a mobile BTS (transceiver), the subject "hacks" into the bank's messaging system to send the phone subscriber a message requesting access to the attached link leading to a website with the same interface as the bank's official website, only one or a few characters are different on the link, but you have to be sharp and pay attention to recognize it. When following the request and accessing the fake page, the customer will declare the login information, password, OTP code, and then be immediately appropriated to administer the bank account. After that, the subject will perform transactions to transfer all the money currently in the customer's account. With the trick of spoofing the bank's brand message, along with many new tricks that have appeared, many victims have been overlooked, even though they have a sense of vigilance. The time when criminals send messages by this trick is mainly when the bank is not active, such as at night, dawn, weekends, or holidays, Tet, etc. The reason they choose these times is that the user cannot authenticate the information. Just follow their instructions and the money in the user's bank account will be completely taken.

* Recommendations from authorities to people in preventing high-tech scams:

- People, when working as collaborators for any goods and service suppliers or e-commerce platforms, need to clearly check the information about the goods and the supplier to verify the accuracy; avoid letting scammers take advantage of and get caught in traps.

- People need to be proactive in being vigilant and watch out for methods and tricks that take advantage of high technology to cheat and appropriate; regularly listen to newspapers and radio, fully update information about tricks of cybercriminals to be proactive in being alert and taking precautions; when receiving a call from a stranger, claiming to be an official of a state agency, etc., with signs of fraud, people need to calm down, not be afraid, quickly contact relatives and friends for advice and help or promptly notify the nearest police agency for instructions on preventing, stopping and effectively handling fraudulent acts.

- People do not participate in investing in forms of business organizations and transactions that the State Bank of Vietnam has not yet licensed, namely Forex trading platform, winning game apps and fake trading platforms.

- People need to raise their awareness of being wary of investment forms in the form of gaming for rewards, be careful with tricks of hiding on foreign exchanges, enticing individuals to invest with high interest rates to scam.

- People absolutely do not transfer money, join groups related to the Forex trading platform set up by many domestic and foreign individuals and organizations.

People are advised to pay attention to:

People absolutely do not use personal information to set up bank accounts or sign up for mobile subscriptions and then sell or rent them out to bad subjects. When investigated, people will be strictly handled according to the provisions of the law.

The Police agencies do not handle cases related to criminal proceedings via phone calls and social networks; when working with people, the police agencies always send officers to work directly or send a written notice or summons from the grassroots police level.

- Note: for bank accounts of individuals: OTP code is the last stop, absolutely do not give OTP code to anyone.

When you need support and advice, please contact the nearest police agency or contact the Cyber Security and High-tech Crime Prevention Division - Binh Duong Provincial Police, No. 681, Cach Mang Thang Tam Street, Chanh Nghia Ward, Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong Province, Tel: 02743.815.505.​​

Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Thanh Tam

​Attending were Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of PPC and Members of PPC, leaders of departments, branches, districts, towns and cities.

Attracting foreign direct investment in 5 months ranks first in the country

In May 2022, the PPC directed to support enterprises to restore production and business development; implement solutions to combat traffic jams, handle flooded spots; implement compensation, site clearance and disbursement of public investment capital; prepare investment plans and procedures for key roads; focus on the prevention and control of Covid-19 pandemic and dengue fever; implement administrative procedure reform, digital transformation; closely monitor petroleum retail stores, promptly detect, inspect and strictly handle acts of hoarding, reducing sales time, and stopping illegal sales.

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Overview of the meeting

The province's socio-economic situation continues to achieve many important results. For the whole 5 months, Index of industrial production (IIP), export turnover, and foreign investment attraction increased sharply over the same period; budget revenues and expenditures are guaranteed according to the estimate; traffic accidents reduced all 3 criteria; security, politics, social order and safety are maintained.

Specifically, the IIP is estimated to increase by 9% over the previous month and by 12.3% over the same period in 2021; accumulated 5 months, the IIP increased by 7.9% over the same period. Total retail sales of goods and services were estimated to increase by 2.9% over the previous month and by 17.5% over the same period; accumulated 5 months increased by 11.5% over the same period.

Export turnover was estimated to increase by 6.2% over the previous month and 17% over the same period; accumulated in 5 months, up 11.5% over the same period. Import turnover was estimated to increase by 23.3% over the previous month; accumulated in 5 months, down 4.2% over the same period.

As of May 15, 2022, domestic investment attraction reached 8,047 billion VND, accumulated in the first 5 months of the year has attracted 30,997 billion VND. Attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) is 151 million USD; accumulated 5 months has attracted 2 billion 492 million USD, rising to the top of the country in attracting FDI.

Attracting FDI in 5 months Binh Duong ranks first in the country

The province has selected a consulting unit for provincial planning; completing the overall adjustment of the general planning, construction planning at district level: Tan Uyen, Ben Cat, Bac Tan Uyen. At the same time, cooperating in studying the investment plan and form of construction of Ring Road 4, Ho Chi Minh - Thu Dau Mot - Chon Thanh expressway; dividing flows, adjusting traffic organization for a number of roads; coordinating with Ho Chi Minh City to study and invest in a number of traffic works connecting the two localities.

The Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) improved greatly in rankings, and the Satisfaction Index of Public Administration Services (SIPAS) was stable. In which, the PAPI 2021 reached 47,178/80 points, ranking 2^nd out of 63 provinces (up 55 places); the SIPAS reached 87.78%, ranking 22/63 (no increase or decrease in rank compared to 2020).

The social security, job creation are interested by the province, in the month have provided job advice to more than 13,000 people. The province is implementing a campaign to inject the 4^th dose of Covid-19 vaccine; develop a project to invest in a last-level hospital with 2,000 beds.

Completing projects and solutions to promote socio-economic growth

In the coming time, the province will continue to review and remove obstacles in production and business activities. Researching and developing a number of specific mechanisms and policies on attracting labor sources, investment capital, industrial and urban development, criteria for selective investment attraction in the province. Organizing contact activities with enterprise associations, industry associations. Effectively implementing policies to support lending interest rates for enterprises, cooperatives and business households. Accelerating the implementation and disbursement of public investment capital in 2022. Ensuring the progress of the provincial planning; land fund planning in service of urban development and resettlement for people. Focusing on site clearance, construction of each bidding package of the work, especially key projects, behind schedule; proactively coordinating with relevant agencies and localities in implementing investment procedures for key roads. Effectively implementing social security policies, supporting those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; focusing on the prevention and control of Covid-19 pandemic and dengue fever. Completing the master plan on development of the Health branch in the province to 2030 and the project on ensuring human resources for the Health branch in the 2021 - 2025 period. Preparing to organize an event to honor the Global Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2021. Building solutions to improve PCI, PAPI, PAR INDEX, SIPAS, etc.; effectively implementing a number of tasks of the project on developing the application of population data, identification and electronic authentication for digital transformation, etc.

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Delegates discuss at the meeting

The meeting also approved the following contents: Project "Consolidating, strengthening and developing human resources and facilities of the Education branch in Binh Duong province in the 2021-2025 period, with a vision to 2030"; the list of public non-business services funded by the state budget in the field of Education and Training in Binh Duong province; the list of public non-business services funded with the state budget in the Health branch in Binh Duong province; youth development strategy of Binh Duong province in the 2021 – 2030 period; Decision amending Decision no. 28/2018/QD-UBND dated October 11, 2018 of the PPC promulgating regulations on auction of land use rights to allocate land with collection of land use fees or lease land in Binh Duong province; the list of projects receiving agricultural land transfer to implement non-agricultural projects according to Decree no. 148/2020/ND-CP dated December 18, 2020 of the Government; authorizing the Standing Committee of PPC, the Chairman, the Vice Chairmen of the PPC to sign a number of documents on the planning under the authority of the PPC.

At the meeting, the delegates discussed the contents surrounding the progress of implementation and disbursement of public investment capital in 2022; the prevention and control of Covid-19 and dengue fever; the vaccination campaign for the 4^th dose; solutions to reduce traffic congestion and deal with inundated spots; establishing a district-level public administrative center, etc.

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Chairman of the PPC Vo Van Minh speaks at the meeting

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Vo Van Minh assessed that the province's socio-economic situation in the past 5 months has achieved positive results in terms of exports; revenue; The Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Indexes are highly appreciated by the nation, especially in terms of attracting FDI, Binh Duong ranks first in the country. Chairman of the PPC emphasized that the results achieved in the first 5 months of the year are an important premise for the province to continue to achieve its goals in 2022. However, besides that, there are still issues that need to be improved such as public investment, rearrangement of the grassroots system, health human resources, etc.

The Chairman of the PPC noted that departments and localities need to focus on a number of key tasks in the coming time. The drafting agencies, based on the opinions of the delegates, supplement and complete the draft report to submit to the Provincial People's Council; coordinate well implementation of major events of the province. Completing district-level planning; focusing on the prevention and control of dengue fever, vaccination against Covid-19; promoting administrative reform; drastically implementing solutions to prevent and combat traffic jams and inundated spots; accelerating disbursement of public investment capital; strengthening rules and disciplines in working style, etc.

​Reported by Yen Nhi- Translated by Thanh Tam