On May 29, the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Association in collaboration with IEC Consulting organized the Vietnam Industrial Park Development Forum 2025 with the theme “Promoting Industrial Park Development: Comprehensive Solutions and Sustainable Investment”. The event attracted the participation of more than 800 delegates.

Delegates attending the Vietnam Industrial Park Development Forum 2025. (Photo: Thanh Tam)

In his opening speech, Mr. Truong Gia Bao, Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Association, said that the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the shift in global supply chains, and geopolitical and economic fluctuations in the world are posing new requirements for the development of industrial parks.

Over the past two decades, industrial parks have become one of the country’s important economic growth drivers. To date, the country has had more than 400 planned industrial parks, of which more than 290 have been put into operation, attracting hundreds of billions of USD in investment capital, creating jobs for millions of workers, and making significant contributions to the state budget.

Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Association Truong Gia Bao spoke at the Forum. (Photo: Thanh Tam)

However, in addition to the achieved results, reality also shows that the traditional industrial park development model is facing a number of shortcomings and challenges such as the low level of regional connectivity and infrastructure connection; Digital transformation and smart governance have not been properly invested in, environmental standards, sustainable development, and circular economy are still in the process of being shaped…

“Therefore, we need a new mindset, a new approach in planning, developing, and operating industrial parks that are not only places of production, but also ecosystems that support innovation, are the core of connecting the global supply chain, and are a space for harmonious development between the economy, society, and environment,” said Mr. Bao.

Chairman of the Vietnam Real Estate Association (VNREA) Nguyen Van Khoi assessed that Vietnam is emerging as a strategic destination for international investment flows, thanks to its favorable geographical location, stable macro-economy, and increasingly improved investment environment.

However, along with opportunities come new challenges such as higher requirements for sustainable development, ESG (environment-social-governance) standards, digital transformation, emission reduction, or labor quality. These require Vietnam to comprehensively restructure its industrial park system.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Dung, Vice President of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Association, spoke at the Forum. (Photo: Thanh Tam)

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Dung, Vice President of the Vietnam Industrial Real Estate Association, investing in industrial park infrastructure development associated with Vietnam’s socio-economic development plan is facing a golden opportunity in the new era.

Vietnam has created a favorable and attractive policy framework for investors with clear orientations from the Socio-Economic Development Strategy for the 2021-2030 period, the Green Growth Strategy and the “Four Pillars” Resolution of the Politburo recently issued.

The trend of “greening” industrial parks is not only a mandatory requirement, but also the key to attracting FDI and improving competitiveness.

Mr. Bruno Jaspaert, General Director of Deep C Industrial Park Complex, shared his experience at the Forum. (Photo: Thanh Tam)

Sharing at the Forum, Mr. Bruno Jaspaert, General Director of Deep C Industrial Park Complex analyzed that in order to build a sustainable ecological industrial park, industrial parks need to meet the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, ensure environmental criteria and create profits. At Deep C Industrial Park, the sustainable development strategy is implemented according to 4 factors.

First, encourage and promote the efficient use of resources, cleaner production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save water, save energy and minimize waste.

Second, improve the working environment, prioritize the use of local labor, raise awareness of sustainable development.

Third, promote cooperation to achieve environmental goals, enhance competitiveness and attract investment.

Finally, Deep C is willing to share experiences to contribute to common development globally.

Within the framework of the Forum, a discussion on strategies for building smart-ecological-sustainable industrial parks was also held.

Here, experts discussed a number of important contents for the sustainable development of industrial parks in Vietnam such as the application of sustainable strategies (4PS) to Deep C industrial park; suitable smart lighting solutions for application in industrial parks in Vietnam; smart energy solutions for green transformation in Vietnam; difficulties of enterprises in accessing financial packages of banks…

Source: Minh Thanh/Nhan Dan

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