The national planning draft for 2021-2030 with a vision towards 2050 focuses on the formulation and development of economic corridors, dynamic zones, large cities and economic zones associated with the national infrastructure framework.

Economic and industrial parks nationwide drew 539 foreign-invested and 615 domestic projects with a total registered capital of 12.8 billion USD last year despite COVID-19 pandemic, up 15 percent annually.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is planning to name a list of eight border economic zones on priority for investment in 2021-2025, or one zone lower than the 2016-2020 period.

Vietnam’s industrial and economic zones attracted 340 foreign-invested projects with a total newly-registered capital of 8.7 billion USD in the first six months of 2019.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has selected eight coastal economic zones (EZs) as priorities for allocation from the government budget from 2016 to 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rampant air-borne pollution is causing massive health problems in leading cities throughout Viet Nam,

 VietNamNet Bridge – PM Nguyen Tan Dung on Sunday issued an Instruction to task relevant ministries, agencies and localities to beef up the realization of measures to support foreign-funded enterprises which were affected

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 700 projects in economic zones and industrial parks across Viet Nam had their investment licences revoked or stopped operation last year.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Planning and Investment is to complete structuring laws and policies to attract Japanese investment in six prioritised sectors by 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Industrial parks (IPs) and economic zones (EZs) in Viet Nam had attracted more than US$110 billion from foreign investment by the end of June.