Japan considers opportunities for IT investment in Vietnam

On November 19, more than 80 leading leaders of the Japan Federation of Enterprises (Nippon Keidanren) visited and studied the possibility of investment in Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park, one of the 3 priority projects of the Government. Vietnam and Japan.

Most leading corporations such as Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Nippon Oil, Mitsubishi, NEC, Nippon Steel . are represented. This is a business delegation accompanying Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Vietnam to attend the 14th APEC Conference and also for the first time the businesses of this country were accompanied by heads of state during their overseas trip.

Mr. Toshiyuki Shinmachi.Photo: Hung Hai .

Mr. Toshiyuki Shinmachi, Chairman of the Japan Federation of Enterprises, said: ' We know that the Vietnamese Government is trying its best to promote the development of the information technology industry. Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park is one of Vietnam's essential infrastructure projects mentioned by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. This is also the reason for the majority of Japanese economists to come here today with the hope of contributing to further development of economic cooperation relations in the high-tech sector . '

Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park has a total planning area of ​​1,650 hectares approved by the Government since 1998 with the goal of providing necessary facilities and human resources to support production and research activities. saving - deploying high technology, contributing to speeding up the process of industrialization and modernization of the country and the process of forming a knowledge economy in Vietnam.

FPT Corporation is assigned by the Government to develop infrastructure and is also the investor of the Software Industrial Park and FPT University here. Currently the first foreign investment project is licensed as Noble Vietnam Electronics Company Limited.

Hung Hai