Da Nang promotes the development of Science and Technology

According to a report by the Ministry of Science and Technology, in 2019, the Science and Technology industry has achieved GDP growth of 46.11% and the labor productivity growth rate of 6.2%, these are achievements of Science and Technology of Vietnam in 2019. To continue the development of Science and Technology, Da Nang has set a goal of developing science and technology, focusing on the goal of improving the capacity of innovation by attracted the domestic and foreign investors to set up company in this fields in Da Nang.

In recent years, with efforts in Science and Technology development, Vietnam has achieved certain achievements in the fight against epidemics and bringing the economy back to stability. At the same time, Science and Technology achievements have been flexibly applied, promoting the basis of the digitized Vietnamese knowledge system in developing epidemic maps using Vmap, detecting people at risk of infection at tourist destinations, construction of medical declaration software. In the meantime, Vietnam has been effectively mobilizing science and technology representative networks in countries to connect research groups, exchange and test equipment, technologies and products for prevention and control of epidemic; promote public-private cooperation in conducting research tasks.

In addition, according to the content of Resolution No. 50/NQ-CP dated April 17, 2020 on the Government’s action plan to implement Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW dated September 27, 2019 of the Politburo on number of guidelines and policies actively participated in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Prime Minister has issued the policies to improve national innovation capacity.

In particular, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Science and Technology to conduct research, review and propose a comprehensive restructuring plan for the system of public scientific and technological research facilities. Building and developing national innovation centers, focusing on the key technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Developing a national innovation system in the direction of being enterprise is the centered, higher education institutions and research institutes as strong research subjects. At the same time, assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with units in joint research and development, propose special and breakthrough mechanisms and policies for the construction and operation of innovation centers. Beside, Vietnam has encouraged domestic and foreign universities, businesses and organizations to set up innovation centers in Vietnam.

In Da Nang City, the Department of Science and Technology issued Plan No. 28-KH/SKHCN dated May 12, 2020, focusing on the content of improving the capacity of innovation.

In the coming time, the city Department of Science and Technology will deploy 23 contents on the topic of innovation. In which, 03 contents are implemented in the period of 2020 to 2025 and 16 contents are implemented annually.

In the period of 2020 to 2025, the Department will coordinate with the Ministry of Science and Technology to promote the development of national creative start-up ecosystem to strongly develop startups in the city.

In addition, the Department will advise the implementation of the Projects to build Da Nang into a national innovation and innovation start-up center in the Central region and Highlands of Vietnam. In particular, in the immediate future, the city will focus on building and deploying activities of innovation centers, focusing on the core technologies of the Fourth Technology Revolution. The City People’s Committee issued a plan to implement the City’s Program on “Developing high-tech industry, building Da Nang into a national-level startup, innovation and innovation center, as an urban area in creativity – science – technology of the global and highly competitive”, and plan to implement the Project” Supporting national innovation start-up ecosystem to 2025″ in the Da Nang city.

With the efforts of Science and Technology development with the city’s FDI attraction goals, Da Nang hopes that it will become a destination for Science and Technology investors to set up company doing business in Vietnam.

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Complete 1st Stage of the Information Technology Zone in Danang

On January 6th 2020, the Prime Minister issued Decision no.27/QD-TTg on establishing the information technology zone in Danang – Stage 1, effective from January 6th 2020. Specifically, the Danang information technology (IT) zone – Stage 1 has an area of 131 hectares, located in Hoa Lien commune, Hoa Vang district, Danang city.

The Ministry of Information and Communications shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the ministries, branches, Danang People’s Committee and concerned units in guiding the implementation of the decision; The Ministry of Planning and Investment was assigned to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Information and Communications in, balancing the allocation of investment capital to support investment in and construction of infrastructure of Danang centralized IT Park according to law provisions.

Besides, the People’s Committee of Danang has 5 tasks including approving the organizational structure and operational regulations of the Danang central IT Management Group, then performing the state management function for the investment projects in the centralized IT zone, and prioritizing the allocation of development investment capital from the state budget for investment in infrastructure development connecting to Danang centralized IT Park – phase 1 and non-business social infrastructures in the area. Therefore, developing the plans and synchronously deploy solutions to attract foreign corporations and large domestic enterprises in the fields of IT, electronics and telecommunications to invest in Danang centralized IT Zone and set up company, apply for investment registration certificate. Finally, directing and organizing the levels of local governments and functional agencies of Danang city in cooperation with Danang IT Park development joint stock company to implement the construction, management to IT zone focus on Danang to develop in the fast and sustainable way.

Danang IT Park is entitled to preferential policies for centralized IT zone as stipulated in the Article 22 Decree no.154/2013/ND-CP to attract the investors to invest and set up business in Da Nang IP park, such as: Preferential corporate income tax for 15 years with tax exemption policy for the first 4 years, 5% for the next 9 years, 10% for the next 2 years and tax incentives after 15 years of operation is 20-22%. Moreover, exemption of import tax for imported goods to create fixed assets, raw materials, machinery and equipment that cannot be domestically produced to serve the production of IT products and IT services of enterprises; 50% reduction of payable personal income tax on income from salaries and wages of high-tech human resources working in IT. In addition, site clearance and infrastructure investment in Danang IT Park- stage 1 will be supported by government and local budgets in accordance with the law, master plan on development of centralized information technology zone approved by the Government. The Danang IT Park – stage 1 will also receive investment credit loans at Vietnam Development Bank for investment.

In the future, domestic and international investors need to update the progress when making investment in the IT sector as well as seizing the investment opportunity, to be able to enjoy the best incentives that Danang set for IT sector in the city with aim to develop a green city to attract the investment that need talents in IT.

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Danang city Meeting the First Korean Consul General in Central Region

On December 16th, 2019, Danang City held a meeting with the new Korean Consul General Mr. Ahn Min Sik, the first Korean consul general in Central Region of Vietnam.

Currently, Danang is a city that attracts a large number of Korean people to travel, live and invest to set up company. Therefore, the establishment of the Korean General Consulate in Danang is an opportunity to further expand the friendly relationship between the two countries.

In addition, the representative of Danang city also expressed his desire to attract more Korean investors in such fields as tourism, high technology, information technology and other industries. And the city has also leveraged the strengths and advantages in socio-economic development of the city in recent years. The city also hopes that the establishment of a Korean General Consulate in Danang will contribute to boosting many investors from Korea into Danang and contribute to increasing the number of Korean tourists to the city.

Mr. Ahn Min – Sik’s important tasks during his mission was to promote the attraction of Korean investment into Central of Vietnam including Danang. At the same time, further promote cooperation on the field of tourism between the two countries. According to ambassador Mr. Ahn Min – Sik, nowadays, many Korean people have come to Vietnam to travel, and his task is to make efforts for Korean tourists to return to Vietnam for the second and third time and many more after that.

Mr. Ahn Min – Sik affirmed that he would always accompany the city, making efforts for the development of Danang and South Korean localities, as well as for the good friendship between the two countries. The parties hope to have more opportunities to cooperate with each other, in all fields such as tourism, investment, culture, education, … to confirm the friendly relationship between Vietnam and South Korea in the near future.

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Danang city Builds the Business Relationship with Tochigi Province of Japan

On December 19th, 2019, the representative of Danang city met the president of Tochigi province, lead by Mr. Fukuda Tomikazu paying a working visit in Danang. At the moment, Japan is the top of country which invest in Danang.

Danang is receiving more than 130 investment projects and the total of investment capital is 800 million USD from Japan. The Japanese investors set up company, obtained investment registration certificate the area such as: hi-tech, supporting services, education, medical. Besides, Danang signed the official memorandum of understanding on business cooperation with some cities of Japan such as: Kawasaki, Kansai, Yokohama, Kirsarazu,… Danang show wishes to cooperate with Japan in many fields such as: economy, cultural, education,..

At the meeting, the representative of Danang city introduced the economy-social of the city and in the recent years, the cooperation relationship of Danang and Japan has been developing in many fields.

Besides, the representative of ANT Lawyers met the representative lawyers from Utsunomiya law firm of Tochigi province at ANT Lawyers Danang office. At the meeting, the parties discussed about the cooperation of helping Japanese investors to enter Vietnam market with legal services. ANT Lawyers is the law firm in Vietnam, which has the offices in Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City.

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Danang city Expands the Cooperation with Italia

On December 17th, 2019, the representative of Danang city met Mr. Dante Brandi the General ambassador of Italia paying a working visit to Danang.

In 2019, the export turnover to Italy is estimated at US $ 4.6 million, import turnover from Italy is estimated at US $ 4.1 million. Main export products are textiles, aquatic products, fishing rods and handicrafts. The main import items are medicine, electrical equipment, spare parts, and garment materials. At present, there are about 15 enterprises having import and export trade relations with the Italian market, 6 Italian investment projects in manufacturing, processing and services with the total capital is USD 1,2 mil.

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The representative of Danang city suggest Mr. Dante Brandi support the city to contact the Italian investors and enterprises in the hi-tech, environment, hi-service which is the strength of Italia and Danang is needing in the coming time.

At the moment, Danang didn’t have the official cooperation relationship with any cities of Italia; therefore Danang hopes Mr. Dante Brandi could introduce some cities of Italia where have the same character and the way to develop, therefore Danang can establish the relationship in the way to transfer the staffs to develop the city and environment management system.

Mr. Danta Brandi supports the relationship between Danang and other cities of Italia, establish the straight flight from Danang to Italia,… to increase the cooperation, development in travel of the two countries, in the time that many Italian investors wish to set up company to invest in Vietnam. And also it is planned to increase the programs on teaching the Italian language in the Danang Foreign Language University, open the sport cars exhibitions, attract the Italian enterprises expand and operate their business in Danang,…

The representative of Danang wishes to attract more and more the Italian investors to develop the investment relationship between Danang and Italia in the future. Besides, the cooperation with Italia will help Danang to develop the targets of the city in travel, hi-tech, and environment direction.

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Danang’s Target in 2020 is “The Year of Promoting Investment Attraction”

On December 04th, 2019 Danang city held the conference on the result of the socio-economic development in 2019 and the target of the city in 2020. The conference affirmed the situation of implementing the city’s political duties, ensuring some criteria for socio-economic development of the city. In 2019, the city has achieved some outstanding results such as: budget revenue exceeded the assigned estimate (estimated at VND 28.170 billion, reached 102,9% of the estimate, up 3,5%; attracted more than 3.696 billion dong of domestic investment and more than 658 million USD of foreign investment capital (newly granted investment certificates of 118 FDI projects with a total registered capital of 437,13 million USD, 8 times higher than the same period); Total tourist arrivals were estimated at 8.69 times, up 13.4%, revenue from tourism activities was estimated at 30.973 billion VND, up 16,7%. In the year, social order and safety were maintained, is considered by many investors and tourists to be a destination for investment and tourism.

In 2020 is particularly important, the last year to implement the 5-year plan from 2016 to 2020 and the year of many political and cultural events. At this 19th Conference, the Conference agreed on the theme of 2020 as “The year of promoting investment attraction” with specific tasks to focus on implementing: promulgate new preferential policies of the city to attract investors; implement plans on improving the quality and efficiency of foreign investment cooperation; continue to improve infrastructure, expand high-tech zones, create land fund to call for investment; continue to remove obstacles in the planning, land management, human resources for businesses and investors. In 2020, the city will actively coordinate with ministries and branches to submit to the National Assembly for approval of the Resolution on Da Nang construction and development to 2030, with a vision to 2045; on that basis, submit to the Government for promulgation a decree on specific mechanisms and policies on city development.

In addition, with the goal of attracting foreign investors, the city hopes to receive more investors from many countries around the world to invest in high-tech and technology industries, biology, environmental protection projects, tourism development, etc. through setting up company, factory in Da nang City. This is a great opportunity for international investors to seize the opportunity to invest in Danang today, in order to enjoy the incentives, as well as the highest investment efficiency in the future.

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Danang cooperates with South Korea in building an intelligent transportation system

On October 28th, Vice Chairman of Danang People’s Committee had a meeting with Seoul Metro delegation, represented by Mr. Shim Seung Moo – Director of Seoul Metro International Relations Department.

At the meeting, the parties discuss about the program “Building Intelligent Traffic System” (ITS) in Danang, including the main contents such as: basic survey of the area where the project is supported; Reviewing and evaluating Danang plans and policies, development regimes; Analyze the appropriateness of the time as well as the project content and budget ….

Mr. Shim Seung Moo – Director of Seoul Metro’s International Relations Department said: Using the ITS application to operate and manage the transportation system is a necessary job for Vietnam and Danang. If ITS is implemented in an integrated manner, traffic congestion during peak hours as well as traffic accident incidents in the area will be quickly resolved.

In the coming time, to deploy the ITS project, Seoul Metro will support Danang in installing infrastructure, equipment, violation monitoring systems (speeding, illegal parking), system of moving fee, parking management … It is expected that the project will be implemented according the plan during 3 years: The first year of construction of architectural frames, the second year of organizing training and installation, the third year of operation.

On behalf of the representative of Danang city, Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee-Mr. Dang Viet Dung, agreed and highly appreciated the proposals of the Seoul Metro mission in surveying and supporting Danang to build the ITS system. Especially in the context that Danang aims to build a smart city in the period of 2018-2025, with a vision to 2030.

South Korea is known as a country with IT industries in the world, including the electronics, telecommunications and transportation. Therefore, the application of information technology applications in parking, solving traffic congestion, traffic flow,… will be necessary conditions towards building a smart city in Danan in the future.

The Vice President assigned the Department of Transport and the Department of Planning and Investment to early develop a detailed plan of the project to submit to KOICA and competent agencies in Vietnam for consideration, and to build a roadmap to receive it. KOICA’s non-refundable capital. Besides, the Vice Chairman expected the relevant units to coordinate to implement the project effectively.

With the goal of building a smart city in 2030, Danang wants to attract more investors from many different countries, to make investments in the field of information technology in Danang, to achieve the goals to be the smart city set by the city in the future.

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Establishing Distribution Company In Danang

Da Nang is a city in the Central of Vietnam, with the advantage of being a trading place of many countries in the world. Danang has a large seaport in the top 10 large seaports of Vietnam, facilitating trading activities with many countries around the world.

At the present, Da Nang is promoting foreign investment into Da Nang, and many investors have chosen Da Nang to do business in the distribution business line. For this business line, Vietnam has committed to open up to attract 100% foreign investment. As committed, foreign-invested companies in the distribution sector will be allowed to provide commission agents, wholesalers and retailers of all products manufactured in Vietnam and legally imported products into Vietnam. Therefore, the investors can import or produce goods, then they distribute the goods in accordance with regulations.

In addition, with the increasing in the number of tourists coming to Da Nang in recent years, the demand for consumer products, fashion and other items for tourists has increased. This triggers demand that many companies to provide essential goods for tourists, and this is a great investment opportunity for investors both domestically and abroad. The investors could explore this opportunity to set up company in Da Nang and fill the market’s demand.

In addition, with many policies to support enterprises in administrative procedures, as well as management, investors can easily carry out procedures as well as manage and control their business better. Enterprises investing in Da Nang are now very satisfied with the way public services are handled in the city’s administrative procedures, therefore more and more investors are choosing Da Nang as a destination for investment when targeting in Vietnam.

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Danang To Cooperate With the US Enterprises to Build an IT Center

On Oct 10th, 2019 representatives of Danang city met the US business delegation including Hayward Quartz Technology Inc., Westcoast Precision, Inc., Majestic Beauty Supplies, Inc., Lee’s Sandwiches International, Inc., Hung Phat USA. These are businesses in the field of manufacturing, processing diamonds and gold, silver and gems; production and distribution of beauty accessories, cosmetics; manufacturing and producing metal and hardware, supplying customized high-quality spare parts and semiconductor devices for the medical and biotechnology equipment industry; Manufacturing and distributing semiconductor equipment in the United States, whom shown interest to set up business and expand operation to Vietnam.

epresentatives of US enterprises affirmed that Danang City is a potential destination for businesses in the High Technology and Information Technology. With the coordination, as well as the city’s incentives in the field of high technology and investment in Danang High-Tech Park, enterprises from the United States consider opportunities to invest in the high technology sector in Danang.

Danang city has many benefits that investors are interested in such as the safe and stable living environment, the young and highly qualified labours from more than 25 universities and colleges in the city, in addition the city is also a destination for many domestic and foreign investors in many different fields, which is an opportunity for investors to compete, distribute the productions.

Currently, in Danang, there are more than 60 investment projects of the US investors with the registered capital of nearly 6 million USD, including large projects such as the Sunshine Aerospace Components Plant Project in Danang high-tech park of Universal Alloy Corporation (USA) with total registered capital of USD 170 million; the factory of electronics and electronic equipment manufacturing and assembling project, total capital of USD 50 million, in Hoa Khanh Industry Zone Expansion invested by Key Tronic EMS Group. Besides there are many other projects being implemented and effective in the process of operation.

Danang City and investors from the United States hoped to achieve more business achievements in the future to help investors and the city achieve development goals in the future to welcome company to set up company, factory, and invest in Vietnam.

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Da Nang Hold Series of International Information Technology Activities

From 21st to 24th October, the Danang People’s Committee in collaboration with the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) will organize an important international chain of information technology activities, including: Smart City Summit 2019 – The 3rd Smart City Summit 2019 and Japan Information Technology Day 2019 – The 12th Japan ICT Day 2019 in Danang.

Smart City Summit is an annual international event being held to promote cooperation, experience sharing, and smart city building strategy for the cities in the area, based on new technology platforms such as: IoT, Big Data, AI, SMAC… they help to manage the city’s performance and bring practical utilities, social security to the citizen, accelerate the digital transformation process of governments and orgazations, enterprise.

The summit will have the participation of 600 delegates, including about 200 international delegates, including senior leaders of the Government, ministries and central branches of Vietnam; leaders of major cities in Vietnam and the region; leaders of leading enterprises, technology corporations of Vietnam and the world.

The summit will be an opportunity for Danang to acquire and build a smart city, based on the scientific and technological foundations of advanced countries in the world, to build a smart and modern city, application of Information Technology (IT) to management and operation to bring high efficiency in the process of development and investment attraction.

Japan ICT Day is a cooperative promotion activity for Vietnam and Japan IT enterprises organized annually by VINASA and Vietnam – Japan Cooperation Committee (VJC), starting from 2007. The program was the sponsorship of the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the coordination and support of many Japanese organizations such as the Embassy of Japan, JETRO, JISA, JEITA, KEIS, OADC, CSAJ, JASA,…

Japan ICT Day 2019 with the theme “Vietnam-Japan cooperation to promote digital transformation” will have the participation of 350 delegates, including nearly 100 delegates from Japan, with 3 topics: Cooperation Vietnam-Japan IT in the new technology trend; Developing IT human resources for Vietnam – Japan IT cooperation; Improve the efficiency in software outsourcing. Japan ICT Day 2019 is also expected to create a highlight to further promote Vietnam-Japan IT cooperation in Danang in particular and cooperation between localities of Japan and Danang in all fields.

Danang holds the 3rd Smart City Summit 2019 and the 12th Japan ICT Day 2019 continue the target of “’The year continues to promote attract investment “of the city, and at the same time promote the process of building a smart city in Danang.

By the events, Danang wishes to complete the process of establishing a smart city in the near future, and attracting and learning the experiences of advanced countries in the world. This is also an opportunity for investors around the world to set up company in Danang in the future, to be able to give the best benefits not only for investors but also for the development of Danang city.

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Establishing Distribution Company In Danang

Da Nang is a city in the Central of Vietnam, with the advantage of being a trading place of many countries in the world. Danang has a large seaport in the top 10 large seaports of Vietnam, facilitating trading activities with many countries around the world.

At the present, Da Nang is promoting foreign investment into Da Nang, and many investors have chosen Da Nang to do business in the distribution business line. For this business line, Vietnam has committed to open up to attract 100% foreign investment. As committed, foreign-invested companies in the distribution sector will be allowed to provide commission agents, wholesalers and retailers of all products manufactured in Vietnam and legally imported products into Vietnam. Therefore, the investors can import or produce goods, then they distribute the goods in accordance with regulations.

In addition, with the increasing in the number of tourists coming to Da Nang in recent years, the demand for consumer products, fashion and other items for tourists has increased. This triggers demand that many companies to provide essential goods for tourists, and this is a great investment opportunity for investors both domestically and abroad. The investors could explore this opportunity to set up company in Da Nang and fill the market’s demand.

In addition, with many policies to support enterprises in administrative procedures, as well as management, investors can easily carry out procedures as well as manage and control their business better. Enterprises investing in Da Nang are now very satisfied with the way public services are handled in the city’s administrative procedures, therefore more and more investors are choosing Da Nang as a destination for investment when targeting in Vietnam.

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Preferential Policies When Investing in DaNang Hi-Tech Park

Danang has been growing to become attractive destination for investment due to favourable conditions offered by the city administration to bring foreign investor investing into hi-tech park.

Danang is one of the five large cities of Vietnam and is the key economic hub of Central Vietnam. The location of Danang is one of the important gateway to the sea of the Central Highlands and Laos, Cambodia and Thailand to the Northeast Asia countries through the East-West Economic Corridor, and located in one of the international sea routes and air routes. Danang has a geographic location that is particularly conducive to rapid and sustainable development.

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Danang Hi-tech Park was established in accordance with Decision No.1979/QD-TTg dated October 28th2010, after two Hi-tech Parks in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, with the hope of developing the science and technology of Da Nang, the Central Region and Central Highlands of Vietnam. Covering an area of 1,129.76 hectares and the infrastructure is gradually being completed with production areas, research and development, training and nursery enterprises, administrative management, housing, logistics, logistics and high- tech services. Da Nang Hi-tech Park is expected to be the attractive place where domestic and foreign investors favourable infrastructure and incentives. Danang Hi-tech Park shall give priority to the setting up of company in high-tech areas i.e. bio-technology for agriculture, fisheries and health; microelectronics, mechatronics and optoelectronics, automation and precision engineering; information technology, communication, informatics software; petrochemical service technology. Danang is a priority city for the development of environmentally friendly industries and services, therefore investors will not be allowed to trade in industries that threaten to pollute the environment and affect national security or industries using obsolete technologies.

In addition to the infrastructure development, Danang also offers investment incentives to attract domestic and foreign investors to invest in Danang Hi-tech Park such as Decision No. 36/2013/QD-UBND and most recently Decree No. 04/2018/ND-CP will take effect from February. Decree No. 04/2018/ND-CP has given great investment incentives to investors when investing in Danang Hi-tech park. Having policies to attract domestic investment and FDI, whereby investors invest in Danang Hi-tech Park will be exempted from all or part of land rent and site clearance in some specific cases. In addition, when investing in Danang Hi-tech Park, the enterprises will be entitled to corporate income tax incentives for 15 to 30 years and exemption on corporate income tax for 4 years, and reduction of 50% for 9 years later to enterprise having new investment projects. Goods imported to be fixed assets in Hi-tech Park or machinery and equipment which cannot be produced at domestic will be exempted from import tax. In addition, experts and workers who are foreigners/overseas Vietnamese working in Hi-tech park and their family members may be considered for issuance of multiple entry and exit visas with appropriate time limits for entry purposes in accordance with the laws.

The economics of Danang is growing and the special incentives have been offered to attract investment from the city administration. This is the opportunities for investors both domestic and foreigners to invest in Danang.

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Benefits of Investors in Setting up a Business in Da Nang

Da Nang is one of the five major cities in Vietnam, having a geographical location that is particularly conducive to rapid and sustainable economic development. Da Nang has important transportation routes such as the China-ASEAN international railway crossings, seaports and international airports.

Da Nang is one of the tourist centers of the country, has rich tourism potential including natural tourism resources and humanities. Da Nang has many famous scenic spots such as Hai Van pass, Son Tra mountain, Ba Na hills, Ngu Hanh Son, Cham Museum or My Khe beach have been voted by Forbes magazine as one of the six most beautiful beaches in the world. These conditions are favorable for the development of diversified forms of tourism such as travel, research, cultural.

Da Nang have infrastructure development, four types of roads are popular: high way, rail way, International airport and International sea way. Da Nang have the sea lanes to most major ports in Vietnam and around the world. It helps investor more convenient to travel everywhere in Vietnam and other countries. Moreover, Da Nang’s water supply, electricity supply and communication system has developed rapidly and is increasingly modernized, ranking third in the whole country after Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Da Nang have Da Nang Port, which help investor in import/export activities easily.

The first advantage of the policy mechanism is that Da Nang has also had great support the mechanism and policies for socio-economic development of Da Nang. Since Da Nang was recognized as a national grade I city in 2003, Da Nang has implemented guidelines, regulatory directions and the issuance of specific regulatory mechanisms. With the support from the Central Government, Da Nang authorities have also developed appropriate policies and mechanisms to facilitate the development of the economy, such as the one-stop-shopping mechanism, so Da Nang which is considered as a locality with attracting investment policies in Vietnam. Examples: Procedures related to investment, investment locations, clearance and handover plan, the granting of business registration certificates and investment preference certificates shall be carried out under the one-stop-shopping mechanism at the provincial municipal all of them are resolved at Da Nang Administration Center. Investors shall be exempt from all expenses related to the settlement of investment procedures apart from the payment of business registration fees according to the provisions of law. When investing in Da Nang, investors not only enjoy many preferential policy from city government but also have chance to find clients from many countries or compete with other companies in Vietnam and foreign countries.

Tradition of unity, consensus of people and the dynamism and creativity of the leadership, these advantages has aroused, mobilized the strength, the most important and decisive resource for the development of Da Nang. The determination of leaders, city authorities in building programs, projects with the support of the people, investors, enterprises, ect that help investors who will invest in Da Nang have highest benefits.

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