The northern space of Ho Chi Minh City is about to grow to be a serious science and know-how city zone, marking a transformative step within the metropolis’s spatial and financial growth. The former website of Binh Duong New City will likely be repurposed right into a sprawling innovation-driven district underneath the newly unveiled plan “Northern HCMC Science and Technology Urban Area.”
The announcement was made on January 15, with participation from the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, authorities companies, and main companions together with Becamex, VSIP, and international know-how giants reminiscent of Qualcomm, Coherent, Warburg Pincus, and Fraunhofer ENAS.
According to the event plan, the core of the brand new city space will focus on a 20-hectare science and know-how advanced, anchored by the previous Binh Duong provincial administrative middle, which will likely be transformed right into a science-technology tower.
The challenge builds upon the prevailing foundations of the earlier “smart city” idea, combining each exhausting and gentle infrastructure to foster innovation and scientific development.
Key parts of the brand new city zone embody the 100-hectare Saigon Innovation Campus, a 15-hectare digital know-how zone, a science exploration middle for STEM schooling and information dissemination, and numerous campuses devoted to coaching and analysis.
A high-tech industrial ring will even be developed, connecting large-scale industrial parks reminiscent of Binh Duong Riverside, Lai Hung, Cay Truong, and VSIP III.
Complementary infrastructure like an ecological science park, a digital infrastructure cluster, and the WTC Expo Center will kind the spine for prototyping and scaling scientific analysis into real-world manufacturing.
In the challenge’s preliminary part, Becamex plans to launch eight core developments, together with the transformation of the Binh Duong administrative middle right into a science hub, a science discovery middle, an ecological science park, a World Trade Center constructing with expo amenities, a coaching and R&D campus, and a number of digital know-how parks together with a 15.47-hectare and a 100-hectare website, together with the BWID Supply Chain City for industrial leasing.
Speaking on the occasion, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Bui Minh Thanh emphasised the importance of the initiative, stating that it aligns with town’s newly granted particular coverage mechanisms from the central authorities.
“These institutional foundations allow us to pursue a bold and flexible development approach that meets international standards,” he stated.
He additional famous that the northern science-technology city space performs a strategically very important function within the total spatial and financial growth of each Ho Chi Minh City and the Southeast Region.
The space is envisioned as a logistics gateway and clear power hub for the area, with direct entry to worldwide seaports, airports, inter-regional transport infrastructure, and large-scale renewable power sources.
The transformation additionally contains repurposing the previous Binh Duong provincial administrative tower, a twin-tower advanced with 21 flooring, beforehand residence to round 60 provincial departments and as much as 1,400 personnel. Built underneath a build-transfer (BT) scheme by Becamex at an funding of over USD 57 million, the constructing started operations in February 2014.
Following the merger of Binh Duong into Ho Chi Minh City, the tower was handed again to Becamex to be maintained and upgraded for science and know-how growth functions.
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