The Northern Ho Chi Minh City Science and Technology Urban Area is a crucial contributor to the event of the town’s science, technology, and innovation ecosystem.
On January 13, on the Convention and Exhibition Center in Binh Duong Ward, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology, the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies, Ho Chi Minh City Exporting Processing and Industrial Zones Authority, Becamex Group, and Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), held a press convention on the event of the “Northern Ho Chi Minh City Science and Technology Urban Area.” The occasion was attended by leaders and representatives from numerous municipal departments and companies.
According to Director of the Becamex Group’s Institute for Research and Development, Dang Tan Duc, the Northern Ho Chi Minh City Science and Technology Urban Area mission is designed to create a large-scale science and technology growth area intently linked to the high-tech manufacturing hall within the northern and northwestern elements of the town. The initiative goals to determine a new growth pole pushed by science and technology, innovation, and the knowledge-based economic system, thereby strengthening Ho Chi Minh City’s long-term competitiveness and reinforcing its function as the nation’s financial engine in a new part of growth.
The mission plays a vital function in shaping Ho Chi Minh City’s science, technology, and innovation ecosystem. It represents a long-term strategic imaginative and prescient collectively pursued by Becamex Group and the town to develop a science and technology city area that brings collectively the three key pillars: authorities, academia, and the enterprise group.
The mission is structured as an built-in growth area. At its core is a science and technology growth heart protecting roughly 103 hectares. Additionally, roughly 220 hectares are allotted for analysis and growth amenities, high-tech manufacturing, and small-scale pilot testing. These two elements kind the central innovation hub, concentrated in Binh Duong Ward, serving as the strategic start line of all the ecosystem.
The heart is being carried out in phases, regularly shaping a convergent area for science and technology actions, schooling and coaching, and innovation. It is anticipated to play a number one and catalytic function, producing spillover results throughout all the Northern Ho Chi Minh City Science and Technology Urban Area and laying the muse for an industrial ecosystem with increased value-added content material.
The mission is designed to deliver collectively universities and extremely expert human assets, appeal to main technology firms, startups, and funding funds, and present supporting technical infrastructure. It is anticipated to have the capability to coach roughly 9,000 engineers in semiconductor applied sciences, laying the groundwork for the event of semiconductor parks, knowledge facilities, and associated high-tech amenities.
According to consultants, the initiative is envisioned as a large-scale science and technology and innovation hub intently linked to high-tech manufacturing, serving as the “scientific and technological brain” of the high-tech manufacturing hall in northern and northwestern Ho Chi Minh City. Within this framework, the science and technology advanced repurposed from the Binh Duong Administrative Center will capitalize on current infrastructure and assist foster a scientific group that underpins all the mission.
The mission represents a concrete step in implementing main nationwide insurance policies, significantly Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW on the event of science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation. Additionally, it seeks to completely unlock Ho Chi Minh City’s newly expanded growth area following administrative consolidation, shifting towards a mannequin of a multipolar, multicenter megacity characterised by excessive ranges of connectivity. In this mannequin, every area is assigned a clearly outlined practical function whereas remaining intently linked and mutually reinforcing inside an built-in city system.
By Minh Duy, Xuan Thi—Translated by Kim Khanh