The Investment Promotion Center for Central Vietnam (IPCC) - Foreign Investment Agency(FIA), Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) successfully organized FDI Yearly Meeting and Training Course for related officials in Central Vietnam from July 11th to 13th,2018, at Da Nang city. Attending meeting chaired by Director General of FIA - MPIDo Nhat Hoang,representative of leaders of Public Procurement Agency (PPA), Department for Economic Zones Management, Multilateral Trade Policy Department, Department of Electricity & Renewable Energy -Ministry of Industry and Trade; Vietnam National University, Ha Noi; and Investment Counselors of Vietnam in United States, Singapore; and representative offices of MPI in the Central Region.
The program atracted the attention and participation of attendees from the agencies,departments of 13 provinces in the Central Region, especially, the participation of enterprises operating in this area.
Director General of FIADo Nhat Hoang delivered the opening speech
FDI YEARLY MEETING 2018
Speaking at meeting, Director General of FIADo Nhat Hoang, updated the information on the situation of FDI attraction in the Central Region and the whole country in the first 6 months of 2018. In addition, he also pointed out the impacts of international economic integration on the foreign investment sector and the influence and dissemination of domestic businesses; expericences in investment promotion and foreign investment management in the new period.
During the discussion, Director General Hoang spent a lot of time listening, receiving opinions and recommendations, and answered the difficulties and problems of representatives of local agencies and enterprises about investment atraction and foreign investment management. This presentation received a warm welcome and highly appreciated from the participants.
Deputy Director of Department for Economic Zones Management Bui Quang Vu -provided further information and emphasized the contents related to Decree No. 82/2018 / ND-CP on the Regulation on Management of Industrial Zones and Economic Zones, which emphasizes new concept of the Ecological Industrial Zone model and updates the highest incentives for this model.
Next, the meeting was continued by delegation of Department of Planning and Investment, Industrial Zones, Export Zones, Hi –tech Park and Investment Promotion Centers. These presentations were mainly focused on issues related to investment promotion, the development and improvement of the investment environment, differences and inconsistencies between legal documents related to foreign investment, management and reporting of FDI information, suggestions and recommendations on the issues mentioned above.
TRAINING COURSE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT KNOWLEDGE 2018
On July 12th, 2018, The training course was held with the participation of lecturers from IPCC,Public Procurement Agency (PPA); Multilateral Trade Policy Department, Department of Electricity & Renewable Energy -Ministry of Industry and Trade; Vietnam National University, Ha Noi;
Director of IPCCTrinh Minh Van, gave the opening remarks at the Training Course.
Speaking at the Training Course, Director Van expressed some contents in the framework of the 30th Anniversary of FDI attraction into Vietnam. In addition, the content of regional links in investment promotion and in-depth dicussion were also emphasized by DirectorVan. It was considered as an important and urgent topic in the face of overlapping in the investment attraction between localities in Central Region.
Representative of the Multilateral Trade Policy Department -Ministry of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thi Lan Phuong - had a lecture on the New Generation Free Trade Agreement (CPTPP & EVFTA) - opportunities, challenges and trend of FDI flow into Vietnam, updated information on the progress of negotiation of trade agreements which Vietnam is a member.
The next topic focused on Guiding how to organize investment promotion activities (such as documents, website, ...). byDeputy Director of IPCCNguyen Quang Anh presented. The lecture provided basic knowledge and shared experience in the implementation of investment promotion, especially investment promotion through website in the Fouth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0).
Head of Marketing Faculty - Vietnam National University, Hanoi Ho Chi Dung, presented about Developing and planinga local marketing strategy. His lecture provided a great deal of macro information and showed many examples of local branding, as well as basically guided to the local branding process, which integrated into the investment attraction.
The next lecture titled "Renewable Energy Development Plan and Project Development Process"was presented by Ms. Pham Thuy Dung - representative of the Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Industry and Trade. This presentation were received special attention of participants, especially localities, enterprises are facing difficulties in the investment process of renewable energy projects with a scale of over 50 MW with large investment capital.
Head of PPP Office, Public Procurement Agency (PPA)Tran Viet Dung delivered the lecture "PPP Project and investor selection" which helped participants to update a lot of information on the bidding process, the conditions for selecting PPP bidding form, especially for projects with complex and large scale.
During the program, the leader of IPCC also had many practical activities to connect and implement investment promotion activities for the Central regionas well as each locality.
Ngoc Phuong- IPCC