Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan, Member of Politburo, Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Mr. Le Thanh Liem, Member of Standing Committee of City Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee together with leaders of departments and sectors visited and worked with Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP).
During the meeting with Nguyen Thien Nhan working at SHTP, SHTP Management Board reported that SHTP has successfully attracted more than 10 leading corporations, technology companies in the world such as Intel, Nidec, Jabil, Sonion, Sanofi. , FPT, Nipro, Datalogic, Samsung, Sonion ... to invest in hi-tech products.
The value of annual production output of enterprises has come into operation steadily. In 2010, it reached USD 0.5 billion, USD 1 billion in 2011, USD 2 billion in 2012, 2 in 2013. $ 85 billion; 2014: $ 3.25 billion; 2015: $ 4.6 billion; 2016: $ 7.6 billion. Up to now, SHTP has produced commodities of over $ 23 billion.
Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan, Member of Politburo, Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, worked with SHTP
Mr. Duong Minh Tam, Deputy Head of SHTP Management Board, told reporters: In terms of export turnover of SHTP compared to Ho Chi Minh City's foreign invested sector: % (approximately $ 500 million), then in 2012 reached 25.26% ($ 2.23 billion / $ 8.83 billion). By the end of 2016, this rate increased to nearly 30% of total export value of FDI sector. Thus, the average growth rate of SHTP's industrial production is about 80% per year. Also about value added: Before 2011, the value added in the composition of production value created in SHTP only reached approximately 10% -12% industrial parks nationwide; Currently, about 40% of enterprises have added value over 25%, some companies have achieved 35% value added (Nanogen, FPT, Digisensor ..), averaged, estimated Calculating the added value of manufactured products at SHTP is currently at 28%.

A SHTP corner today
Beside that, many big results have been gained in the last 15 years at SHTP, especially in R & D. Businesses in SHTP spend increasing funds on R & D and human resources training.
Specifically, from 2013 to 2016, Intel Corporation has a new product Haswell chip, SophiA, A-mobile chip ... to conduct training for many university lecturers under the HEEAP program with a budget of over 4 million USD.
Some companies have R & D plans, advanced training programs on management skills, operation and design at relatively high cost such as: GES, FPT, Sonion, Jabil, Datalogic, Qsic, Nidec Sankyo, Nanogen, DGS ...
Particularly, the project of manufacturing semiconductor components of Viet My Quantitative and Cooperation company with R & D center has bought equipment for advanced training on microelectronics equipment for 25 specialists at over 120 cost. billions dong.
Mr. Tam added: "Most of the companies have upgraded products, using more and more Vietnamese engineers and technicians to produce new products: Haswell microprocessor chips for machines. countless, multi-level robots for industrial use, card reader, 3D scanner ...
Many parts of the production line that previously used manual labor have now been improved to improve automation for higher productivity.
The majority of R & D personnel are Vietnamese and some of the leading R & D companies in the group or sector such as Datalogic.
Besides, some large corporations like Nidec, Samsung ... have formed research centers in SHTP with the objective of investing in R & D activities of the corporation in Vietnam. "
Mr. Le Hoai Quoc presented his recommendations to Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan
At the meeting, Mr. Le Hoai Quoc, Head of SHTP Management Board, presented the challenges of SHTP now and in the future, suggesting that the city continues to increase its investment base Material and potential for S & T development of the City, focusing on promptly investing in the construction of the Science & Technology Park and connecting transport works to create an environment. It is best for research, development, training, technology transfer, high tech enterprise incubation and start-up businesses; Need legal corridor for venture capital fund to develop technology, new products, hi-tech services ...; To expeditiously plan more hi-tech parks and science and technology parks in Ho Chi Minh City.
Representatives of departments such as Planning and Investment, Transportation, Planning and Architecture, Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City ... all agreed with the recommendations of the management board and said that the contents of the proposal. are being rushed by functional departments to carry out the necessary procedures. Comrade Le Thanh Liem emphasized: "Worth worth the export value of 7.2 billion USD, SHTP should strive to reach 10 billion USD in the coming time; At the same time, SHTP accounts for 23% of the city's export turnover, striving for 28% as SHTP is in a stable period with significant value added activities. "
Following are other recommendations: After reviewing the pilot program to support the commercialization of R & D-enabled products from SHTP businesses in the two years 2017-2018, it is necessary to continue to develop officially into The program to support commercialization of high-tech products has the potential to go through initial research and development stages.
In addition, Mr. Le Hoai Quoc also proposed: "City leaders tasked the Institute for Development Studies and the SHTP Management Board jointly made a report Research Planning urban Northeastern Science City of HCMC by Decision Decree No. 24 / QD-TTg on the approval of the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City construction up to 2025 ".
In summary of the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan said: "I have high concurrence with the achievements of SHTP, especially 5 achievements, I appreciate this effort. The leaders of SHTP through the ages, have sacrificed health, enthusiasm here, to produce results today.
With the recommendations of SHTP, the Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee also agreed with the recommendations and directed the relevant departments to quickly deploy with specific objectives such as deploying Science & Public Park. Technology, quickly balance the funding to advance the construction of interconnected bridges, to be implemented in the next year; The link between SHTP and Ho Chi Minh City National University is also very necessary, proposed next year to have the project linked ...
* On the same day, HCM City Party Secretary Nguyen Thien Nhan also visited Minh Nguyen Supporting Industry Joint Stock Company and the Board of Directors of Saigon Silicon City (SHTP).

Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan and comrade Le Thanh Liem are watching some products manufactured by Minh Nguyen Supporting Industry Corporation.
Here, comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan noted the investment efforts of these two companies and listened to the aspirations and suggestions of the two companies mentioned above.
It is known that Minh Nguyen Supporting Industry Corporation is the first enterprise of Hochiminh City chosen by Samsung to be the first-class supplier of components for Samsung products. The company is a member of Phuoc Thanh Plastic Co., Ltd, granted by SHTP Board of Investment in October 2015 with the scale of over 52,000m2, with the total investment capital of over VND 1,600 billion. plastic parts, mechanical parts and high technology application molds. Currently, Minh Nguyen Supporting Industry Joint Stock Company has put into operation plastic injection workshops, mechanical workshops, component assembly workshops and research labs, of which automation systems are imported directly from Japan. Ban, Korea, Germany and USA.
Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan visited the Board of Directors of Saigon Silicon City

Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan worked with the Board of Directors of Saigon Silicon City
The Saigon Silicon City project is a particularly important project in calling for and attracting Vietnamese people in S & T developing countries such as USA, Japan, UK, Germany, Korea, Singapore, has been successful in the field of high technology, especially Vietnamese enterprises in Silicon Valley (USA) on water to invest and develop high technology in Vietnam.
Saigon Silicon City has officially broken ground on 10-11-2015, built on an area of 52ha with total investment of over 858 billion VND, target of 32,250 billion VND when the project is filled.
According to Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper