Vietnam has very good achievements in foreign direct investment attraction, however, it needs to change its strategy and orientation to focus on the necessary sectors to improve efficiency. For sustainable future development, it is important to set the country’s priorities right (Illustration photo: GE’s factory in Haiphong) Sectors of current focus Numerous foreign groups have been doing business successfully in Vietnam, such as Samsung, LG, Intel, GE, Mitsubishi, and Panasonic. However, the draft of FDI attraction orientation and strategy for 2018-2030 built by the Ministry of Planning and Investment in collaboration with the World Bank noted that Vietnam needs to carefully review the priority sectors to attract FDI in the time to come. According to Simon Bell, the World Bank’s senior advisor on investment policy, experts mentioned high-added value in FDI attraction but have not pointed out sectors and what to do, and that in the new orientation, Vietnam needs to identify these two points. This is the largest challenge not only for Vietnam, but also of other countries which are attracting FDI successfully in the first 10 or so years. These sectors must become engines of development for the country. Thereby, the World Bank’s experts have researched and outlined a series of priority sectors, such as chemicals, high-tech electronic components, creative and high-tech agriculture, and high-quality tourism, in order to raise value and improve competitiveness. Original equipment manufacturing, automobiles and transport parts, and environmental technology are short-term priorities, while healthcare and education, pharmaceuticals and health products, and financial and… [Read full story]
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