With more than 9.9 billion USD of FDI capital from 2016 to October 2019, Binh Duong has completed early and exceeded the plan to attract FDI and investors come to set up company in Binh Duong in the period 2016 – 2020, creating a premise for the breakthrough developments in next time.
According to the latest report of Binh Duong Department of Planning and Investment, from the beginning of the year to October 31st 2019, over 2.77 billion USD of FDI was licensed to invest in Binh Duong, increases by 69% compared to the same period last year and far surpassed this year’s plan (the plan is to attract 1.5 billion USD).
This result has brought Binh Duong to the third position in the country in terms of FDI attraction. Up to now, Binh Duong province has attracted more than 3,700 FDI projects from 64 countries and territories with a total registered capital of nearly 34 billion USD, mainly in the fields of industrial production, trade and services.
Some large-scale projects licensed to invest in industrial zones from the beginning of the year until now are: projects of Sharp Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Japan), investment capital of 135 million USD; 2 projects of BW Industrial Development Company Limited (joint venture between Becamex IDC and Warburg Pincus LLC, USA) with total registered capital of 106 million USD; the project of Nitto Denko Co., Ltd (Japan), investment capital of more than 186 million USD…
In order to attract sustainable FDI, Binh Duong province has implemented the Renewal Program to attract investment in the 2016 – 2020 period, which aims to attract 7 billion USD of FDI in the whole period.
Updated information from the Department of Planning and Investment of Binh Duong shows that from 2016 to the end of October 2019, Binh Duong attracted more than 9.9 billion USD of FDI, exceeding 41% compared to the 2016 – 2020 5-year plan, exceeding both the attracted investment capital and the completion time compared to the set plan.
According to the statistics of functional departments of Binh Duong province, with nearly 75% of total FDI capital in the field of industrial production, in the period of 2011 – 2016, the FDI sector contributed over 67% of the industrial production value of the province, ensuring the economic structure of the province in the right direction with industry and services playing a leading role.
In 2018, the FDI sector contributed over 49.6% of the total social investment capital and accounted for nearly 20% of Binh Duong’s total budget revenue. FDI enterprises also contribute to connecting with domestic enterprises, focusing on industries with high technology content, supporting industries, producing competitive products, contributing to meeting supply needs of raw materials for production of domestic enterprises as well as creating high export value, contributing to the province’s trade surplus in 2018 reached nearly 5 billion USD…
Program No. 34-CTr / TU of December 15th 2016 of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee on renovation and attraction of investment in the 2016 – 2020 period in Binh Duong province aims to focus investment attraction in the cooperation with large economic corporations in the world; strengthen calling and attracting FDI in high-tech fields with high added value, less labor-intensive and environmentally friendly; focusing on attracting to industrial zones, planned industrial clusters…
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