Danang organizes roundtable discussion investment cooperation with Canada

On August 28, 2019, in the Toronto city, Canada, Chairman of Danang People’s Committee chaired a roundtable talk about Canada-Danang investment cooperation.

At the conference, the Chairman of Danang City People’s Committee introduced the investment and business environment, as well as exchanging cooperation and investment opportunities to investors in Canada. The city also expressed its desire to attract investment in high technology, information technology, education and tourism.

 Until June, 2019, Canada has 10 foreign direct investment projects in Danang with a total registered capital of nearly USD 1 million, mainly in the field of management consulting service, equipment leasing. In terms of trade exchange, in 2018, exports from Danang to Canada reached 27 million USD, with the main export items including garments, children’s toys, components, auto parts, crafts. Meanwhile, the import value reached US $ 1.6 million with the main import items such as machinery, equipment and transport vehicles. At the roundtable seminar, Canadian investors expressed their interest in projects in the field of renewable energy, education, assembly, and production of auto parts in Danang.

For investors interested in the opportunity to cooperate in the production of automobile parts, Danang said the city has many mechanical businesses capable of cooperating to produce automobile parts with foreign partners. At the same time, the strategic location of Danang is also an advantage for investors in terms of product transportation and distribution system when opening the factory here.

In the field of education – training, city leaders encourage projects of building international schools and joint training programs according to international programs in Danang of Canadian investors.

 In addition, Danang also wishes to cooperate with the city of Brampton, Ontario province – a city possessing strengths in logistics, information technology in Canada. At the meeting, representatives of city agencies answered the investors’ questions related to investment support and preferential policies; especially in the field of high technology, renewable energy, financial support for small and medium enterprises, protection of intellectual property rights …