How will Da Nang reshape its investment attraction model to maintain scale while expanding effects?

Da Nang is adopting a more proactive and selective approach to investment promotion, shifting from broad-based outreach to direct engagement with corporations and strategic investors. The city is focused on improving investor services throughout the project development process, from providing information and arranging site visits to offering procedural guidance.

Leaders of Da Nang City chair the 2026 Business Dialogue Forum to address policy bottlenecks facing the business community

The city is also stepping up investment promotion by market and sector, organizing direct working programs with potential investors to strengthen connections and improve investment attraction. In line with its development priorities, Da Nang focuses on high-quality, efficient, and environmentally friendly projects in areas such as high-tech industries, digital technology, logistics, urban infrastructure, finance, high-tech agriculture and medicinal herbs, green manufacturing, and supporting industries.

Da Nang strictly applies criteria related to technology, environmental impact, environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards, and spillover effects, including supply chain linkages, technology transfer, high-quality job creation, and workforce development. It also proactively prepares project pipelines and necessary conditions while strengthening coordination among agencies to shorten project assessment and decision-making times for investors.

The city closely monitors project implementation, promptly addresses difficulties, and reviews and recommends solutions to business concerns. Through this approach, Da Nang continues to serve as a single point of contact throughout the investment process, supporting investors and reinforcing its position as a reliable, long-term partner of the business community.

What are the core features of Da Nang's emerging business environment? How does the city compare to regional hubs on costs, governance quality, and investor convenience?

Da Nang identifies building a service-oriented government, with businesses and investors at the center, as one of its key priorities. The city is accelerating administrative reform, improving coordination among government agencies, and shortening processing times for administrative procedures, thereby creating a more favorable, stable, and accessible investment environment for businesses. Da Nang offers competitive investment and operating costs, including land rental, office space, labor, and living expenses, helping businesses improve long-term efficiency. This is an important advantage in attracting technology companies, R&D centers, digital service providers, and other knowledge-based projects.

The city is also focused on developing an integrated economic ecosystem linked to seaports, logistics, trade, technology, and finance. The development of Lien Chieu Port in connection with the Free Trade Zone and International Financial Center is expected to strengthen international connectivity, support supply chain development, and enhance Da Nang’s role as a logistics and financial hub of Central Vietnam.

What key mechanisms and policy breakthroughs is Da Nang pursuing in R&D, innovation, logistics, and digital transformation?

As the world enters an era shaped by digital transformation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the knowledge economy, Da Nang identifies science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation as key drivers of rapid and sustainable development. The city has implemented a range of strategic programs and initiatives while emphasizing that a supportive institutional and policy framework at the national level is essential for achieving long-term breakthroughs.

On that basis, Da Nang proactively proposed and secured National Assembly approval for specific mechanisms and policies on science, technology, and innovation under Resolution 136/2024/QH15. This provides an important legal foundation for developing the city’s innovation and startup ecosystem and supports its goal of becoming a major socio-economic center of Vietnam and Southeast Asia, in line with the orientations set out in Resolution 43-NQ/TW and Conclusion 79-KL/TW.

To implement Resolution 136/2024/QH15, the City People's Council issued Resolution 55/2024/NQ-HDND on December 13, 2024, which sets out the criteria, conditions, and procedures for the controlled testing of new technological solutions. After more than one year of implementation, the city has approved two solutions: "Basal Pay: Blockchain Application in Crypto Asset Exchange with Fiat Currency Complying with Travel Rule" under Decision 1181/QD-UBND dated June 28, 2025, and "MIMO: An Intermediary Platform for Converting Digital Assets to Fiat Currency and Vice Versa under a Non-Custodial Mechanism" under Decision 2895/QD-UBND dated December 6, 2025.

Resolution 259/2025/QH15, issued on December 11, 2025, expanded the scope of the regulatory sandbox citywide, rather than limiting it to the High-Tech Park, Concentrated Information Technology Park, and publicly funded innovation spaces. The City People's Committee has submitted a draft resolution to the People's Council to replace Resolution 55/2024/NQ-HDND in line with the expanded scope.

In the coming time, Da Nang will continue to promote innovation by allowing new technology models that are not yet covered by existing regulations to be tested within a strictly controlled and safe framework. This approach helps generate practical experience and provides a basis for developing appropriate policies.

These mechanisms and policies provide an important legal foundation for Da Nang to fully leverage its potential and advantages, create breakthroughs in socio-economic development, and pursue double-digit growth from 2026 onward. They also help prepare the city to strengthen its role as a growth driver for both the region and the country, enhance its competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific region, and move toward becoming a globally competitive city. The city aims to build an ecosystem centered on science and technology, international transportation, modern tourism services, and financial technology, generating positive spillover effects across the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, and the country as a whole.

Does the city use specific criteria or metrics to measure investment attraction efficiency and growth quality ?

Da Nang is shifting its investment attraction strategy from focusing on quantity to prioritizing quality, efficiency, and added value. In the coming period, the city will look beyond total registered capital and place greater emphasis on indicators that reflect the quality of growth and the long-term competitiveness of the economy.

The city aims to attract projects that create high-value products and services, generate technology spillover effects, and support economic restructuring toward greater modernization, rather than projects that require large amounts of land but deliver limited efficiency.

Da Nang also places strong emphasis on technology content, innovation, and the application of science and technology in investment projects. Priority sectors include artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, data centers, digital technology, financial technology (fintech), biotechnology, and smart logistics, with the goal of building a knowledge-based economy and enhancing international competitiveness.

The level of participation in regional and global supply chains is also an important criterion. The city aims to attract enterprises that can integrate into international production networks and support the development of supporting industries, logistics, and cross-border trade, thereby strengthening Da Nang’s position in global value chains.

In addition to economic indicators, Da Nang incorporates sustainable development criteria into its investment assessment, including land-use efficiency, job quality, workforce development, green transition, and environmental impact.

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