Business Forum “Thai Connect in Hung Yen 2025”

Provincial leaders and delegates attend the forum

The forum drew the attendance of Ms. Urawadee Sriphiromya, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Thailand to Vietnam; representatives of ministries, departments, branches, central agencies; Thai agencies, organizations, enterprises and investors; representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On the Hung Yen provincial leadership side, the forum saw the participation of comrades: Nguyen Huu Nghia, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Tran Quoc Toan, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Members of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, leaders of the Provincial People's Council and the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of departments, branches and enterprises in the province.

Ms. Urawadee Sriphiromya, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Thailand to Vietnam, speaks at the forum.

In her opening speech, Ms. Urawadee Sriphiromya, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Thailand to Vietnam expressed her joy and thanked the leaders of Hung Yen province, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Cultural Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam for coordinating to organize this forum; at the same time, emphasizing that this is the first economic event since Thailand and Vietnam upgraded their relations to the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, the event is considered an important result of the official visit to Vietnam by the Prime Minister of Thailand in mid-May.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Thailand to Vietnam highly appreciated Hung Yen's outstanding potential in terms of economy, industry, agriculture, and human resources; the strategic vision and high determination of the leaders of Hung Yen province. We hope that through the forum, Hung Yen province and businesses of the two countries will exchange ideas, strengthen the business connection network, promote the expansion of trade and investment in the locality for the prosperous development of the Thai and Vietnamese economies.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Huu Nghia speaks at the forum

Speaking at the forum, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Huu Nghia affirmed: The Forum is an important event to consolidate and promote the friendly relations, cooperation in economic development, trade, investment, cultural exchange, and people-to-people exchange between Vietnam and Thailand, contributing practically to strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Thailand; at the same time contributing to promoting the image of the land and people of Hung Yen, expanding the cooperative relationship between Hung Yen province and Thai partners.

The Provincial Party Secretary said: With the advantage of being located in the key economic region of the North, near Hanoi capital, located on two economic corridors: Kunming (China) - Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong; Nanning (China) - Lang Son - Hanoi - Hai Phong, along with an open and attractive investment environment, Hung Yen province has been an attractive destination for foreign investors from many countries and territories. Currently, in Hung Yen province, there are 886 valid foreign investment projects, with a total registered capital of over 16.02 billion USD, of which investors from Thailand have invested in 10 projects with a total registered investment capital of 174.4 million USD, employing about 2,200 workers.

To continue to make efforts to further improve the investment and business environment in the coming time, Hung Yen province is focusing on drastically and synchronously carrying out a lot of groups of solutions in the spirit of "three open" (open institutions, smooth infrastructure, smart governance). Along with that, the province has implemented and completed regulations on organizational structure, promoted decentralization and delegation of power in the direction of streamlining, strength, efficiency, effectiveness and strong performance; strongly shifted from passive to proactive state of serving people and businesses; continued to boost the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures and business regulations for businesses and foreign investors. Hung Yen province always determines that the development of the province is closely linked to the stable and sustainable development of each business and the business community.

The Provincial Party Secretary respectfully invited Thai businesses and investors to study the potential and advantages of Hung Yen, strengthen cooperation in the fields of trade, industry, tourism, etc. With the spirit of "what is said must be done, what is committed must be completed; respecting time, intelligence and timely decisiveness", Hung Yen province committed to creating the best conditions according to the law for Thai businesses to invest in production and business in Hung Yen and closely coordinate with Thai authorities in people-to-people exchange activities, cultural and social development cooperation.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Le Huy and delegates attend the discussion with the topic "Connecting the supply chain between Thailand and Vietnam"

At the discussion with the topic "Connecting the supply chain between Thailand and Vietnam", Comrade Nguyen Le Huy, Member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, together with leaders of WHA Indusial Development PLC (Thai Binh) and Hanoi Logistics Association discussed the cooperation opportunities between enterprises of the two sides in various fields; the strategic economic role, especially logistics of Hung Yen province; learning about key investment areas in Hung Yen province; at the same time, informing and introducing preferential policies for investors when coming to the province.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Le Huy emphasized: Hung Yen province is currently gradually affirming its role as a center for linking industry, agriculture and logistics in the Red River Delta. In addition, the province also owns a system of modern, environmentally friendly industrial parks and clusters. The logistics network is expanding and attracting investment with the advantage of location and planning of land and water areas of seaports for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, which has been planned by the Ministry of Construction, with the target of customs clearance of goods from 6.8 million tons to 7.85 million tons by 2030.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Le Huy shared a number of contents about the advantages of investment attraction and the development orientation of the province. Along with that, Hung Yen has the infrastructure of Thai Binh Economic Zone, industrial parks with synchronous and modern investment, large space to meet all the needs of investors. Currently, Hung Yen province has planned to develop 43 industrial parks outside Thai Binh Economic Zone with an area of 13,526.28 hectares, of which 18 industrial parks have been established, with an area of 3,998.53 hectares. In addition to the filled area, there are about 600 hectares of cleared land, with synchronous infrastructure investment, ready to welcome investors.

Provincial leaders and delegates attend the forum.

The Business Forum “Thai Connect in Hung Yen 2025” is one of the important activities of Thailand Week taking place from July 16 to July 20 in Hung Yen province. Through these activities, the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Thailand will not only be strengthened but also many prospects for economic, cultural and tourism cooperation will be opened up, contributing to further deepening the Vietnam-Thailand Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in general and the investment cooperation activities between Hung Yen province and Thai localities and investors in particular.