They also signed contracts for hitech agricultural and industrial developments, such as a $300 million electronic component factory in the Trang
Due Industrial Zone and a $24 million building material project for cement with joint venture Chinfon.
The authorities said the city would continue to complete infrastructure projects, especially highways, bridges and ports, and improve the
business environment to facilitate investors. Addressing the Monday conference, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called on investors to pour
money into Haiphong, especially in production, tourism and services.
He highlighted the city’s advantages for socioeconomic development, while praising its great achievements in investment attraction, especially
Haiphong is reportedly leading localities around the country to help attract FDI in the first half of this year, with newly registered and
supplemented capital reaching some $1.74 billion, or 15.4 per cent of all FDI capital that the country attracted during the period.