Saigon Hi-Tech Park
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The Saigon Hi-Tech Park is a park for high technology enterprises located 15 km from downtown Ho Chi Minh City
, opposite to Thu Duc University Village
, along the Hanoi Highway and on the future line 1 of the HCMC metro (2014). The park covers an area of 326 ha (95% utilised) and is currently being expanded to 913 ha. High-tech investors are given preferential treatments here with land leases and taxation, as well as support for customs services.
Several world leading high-tech companies chose SHTP, notably:
In total 26 companies were in operations in 2011, employing more than 11,000 employees and a total registered investment of US $2 billions.
This park was aimed at promoting Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam as a hi-tech investor friendly destination. The new phase is focusing on education, bio-technology, start-up incubators, training centres, software, R&D, telecom. This park is one of two hi-tech parks in Vietnam
, the other being Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park situated in the western outskirts of Ha Noi near the University of Sciences and Technologies of Hanoi.
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
, opposite to Thu Duc University Village
Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City is one of the two largest national universities in Vietnam...
, along the Hanoi Highway and on the future line 1 of the HCMC metro (2014). The park covers an area of 326 ha (95% utilised) and is currently being expanded to 913 ha. High-tech investors are given preferential treatments here with land leases and taxation, as well as support for customs services.
Several world leading high-tech companies chose SHTP, notably:
- Japanese NidecNidec Corporationis a manufacturer of electric motors in Japan. Their products are found in hard-disk drives, household electric appliances, commercial and manufacturing equipment. The two product groups with the largest sales are hard-disk drive motors and electrical and optical components . The paid-in capital...
, (TSE:65940, NYSE:NJ, hard disk drive motors) with multiple factories under Nidec, Nidec Copal and Nidec Sankyo flagships and total investment of US $500 million for a planned 20,000 workforce, - US Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) with US $1 billion registered investment to build the largest chip assembly & test plant in the world,
- French Air LiquideAir LiquideL'Air Liquide S.A., or Air Liquide , is a major French company supplying industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, it is first in the world market in its field, now operating in over 80 countries. It is...
(EPA:AI), world leader in gases for industry, health and the environment, - Danish Sonion, leader in miniature and hearing components who employs more than 2,000 workforce in SHTP,
- US Jabil (NYSE:JBL) a major electronic supplier,
- Italo-American Datalogic (STAR:DAL.MI) global leader in bar codes readers.
In total 26 companies were in operations in 2011, employing more than 11,000 employees and a total registered investment of US $2 billions.
This park was aimed at promoting Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam as a hi-tech investor friendly destination. The new phase is focusing on education, bio-technology, start-up incubators, training centres, software, R&D, telecom. This park is one of two hi-tech parks in Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, the other being Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park situated in the western outskirts of Ha Noi near the University of Sciences and Technologies of Hanoi.