Investment Promotion Conference
On behalf of Gia Lai provincial leaders, there were comrades: Ho Quoc Dung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Pham Anh Tuan - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Ngoc Luong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee. Comrades in the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, People's Committee, Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and the National Assembly Delegation of Gia Lai province. Also attending were experts from the Vietnam Economic Institute, the National Monetary Policy Advisory Council; members of the National Planning Advisory Group. In particular, there were international organizations, business associations, investment promotion organizations and more than 400 domestic and foreign enterprises participating in the event.
In his welcoming speech, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan, on behalf of the provincial leaders, expressed his honor and joy to welcome international organizations, business associations and investors to attend the Gia Lai Investment Promotion Conference 2025. This is an event of special significance, aiming to continue to concretize the Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050; at the same time, bringing Gia Lai closer to the business community and investors to jointly turn potential and advantages into reality, and cooperate for rapid and sustainable development in the coming time.
Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee delivered a welcome speech
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that Gia Lai is strategically located in the center of the East-West and North-South axes. Gia Lai is a bridge between the Central Coast, the Central Highlands and Laos, Cambodia and the Mekong sub-region. With a diverse ecosystem, 130 km of coastline, 80 km of border and potential for high-tech agriculture , renewable energy, industry, services and logistics, Gia Lai is considered a "miniature Vietnam", a foundation for comprehensive development, towards a modern, dynamic and sustainable province.
In the period of 2026-2030, the province determines to promote science, technology, innovation, digital transformation, green transformation; develop rapidly and sustainably, turning Gia Lai into a center of industry, high-tech agriculture, services, tourism, artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor chips. Striving for Gia Lai to become a fairly developed province, achieving double-digit economic growth in the period of 2026-2030, firmly entering a new era of development with the whole country.
Delegates attending the Conference
On the new journey, the province has identified 5 growth pillars and focused on 3 strategic breakthroughs including: Building a creative, streamlined, effective and efficient government, enhancing local competitiveness; promoting science - technology, innovation, digital transformation; issuing specific and outstanding mechanisms and policies to remove bottlenecks and attract large investments; developing high-quality human resources to meet the requirements of industrialization - modernization and green transformation; creating breakthroughs in transport infrastructure, irrigation, logistics, industry, trade - services, digital infrastructure and prioritizing connectivity between the highlands - deltas - coasts.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also said that the province has prepared and focused on synchronous investment in both physical and digital infrastructure to attract investors. The province owns a multimodal transport infrastructure, closely connected to major economic centers, including roads and railways with the North-South axis connecting via National Highway 1A, National Highway 14C and the North-South Eastern Expressway and the East-West axis formed via National Highways 19, 14, 25; especially the Quy Nhon - Pleiku Expressway (125 km) expected to start construction in October 2025, will become a high-speed arterial route, connecting industrial parks, seaports, border gates, airports and expanding domestic and international trade.
Conference delegates
Regarding aviation, Gia Lai is currently one of the few localities with 02 airports (Phu Cat and Pleiku), convenient for operating domestic flights, connecting with major economic centers. Comrade Pham Anh Tuan informed that on August 19, 2025, the province started the project to build runway No. 2 and synchronous items at Phu Cat Airport; this project aims to turn Phu Cat Airport into a modern international airport, exploiting international routes, thereby enhancing trade, tourism, integration and attracting investment. In addition, Gia Lai owns Le Thanh international seaport and border gate. The seamless coordination between seaports, border gates and 2 airports will significantly enhance the capacity of trade, freight and passenger transport, not only serving Gia Lai but also the entire South Central Coast - Central Highlands region, even reaching out to the international (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand).
In addition, after the merger, the province also owns 02 economic zones, 24 industrial parks with a total area of 9,450 hectares and 99 industrial clusters with a total area of 5,400 hectares. This is a favorable condition for investors to implement large-scale projects, linking production - processing - consumption, expanding domestic and international markets. In addition, Gia Lai is promoting the application of artificial intelligence (AI), 4.0 technology and semiconductor industry, considering this an important driving force for the development of digital economy, digital society and digital government.
At the Investment Promotion Conference, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan respectfully invited investors to continue to pay attention to and invest in areas such as: Developing processing and manufacturing industries, focusing on attracting projects for processing agricultural, forestry and aquatic products; at the same time promoting high-tech industry, artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors; manufacturing components, electronic equipment, precision mechanics and high-tech products; developing renewable energy and green industry, aiming to form a regional renewable energy center; developing port services and smart logistics centers along key traffic routes such as National Highway 19, North-South Expressway and Quy Nhon-Pleiku Expressway; forming world-class tourist areas and music festivals, creating attractive destinations on the global tourism map. Along with that, investing in developing large-scale specialized areas for the province's key agricultural products, including sugar cane, high-tech dairy cows, coffee, pepper, vegetables, medicinal herbs and high-tech concentrated livestock; stable raw material areas, linked to deep processing industry to increase value in the future; converting low-efficiency rubber and dipterocarp forest areas to crops with higher economic value and developing Le Thanh International Border Gate Economic Zone, attracting raw material areas from Cambodia to the province's economic zones and industrial parks for processing, forming a sustainable value chain.
Provincial leaders visit OCOP booths within the framework of the Investment Promotion Conference
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also hopes that businesses will learn about and invest in the tourism and cultural sectors. He said that Gia Lai has a unique tourism ecosystem combining beach resorts, mountain and forest ecology, culture - community and adventure sports. This is an opportunity to call for investment in high-end resorts, eco-community tourism, international sports - event centers, entertainment areas, urban tourism infrastructure and smart services, aiming to build Gia Lai into an international-class tourist destination.
Comrade Pham Anh Tuan emphasized that, in addition to attracting new investment, the province also focuses on reviewing and evaluating slow-to-implement projects to remove difficulties and enhance the reputation of the investment environment; at the same time, resolutely withdrawing projects from incompetent investors, creating conditions for potential investors to participate effectively. The province prioritizes resources for developing social infrastructure, especially in the fields of health and education; focuses on protecting the environment and preserving the landscape to make Gia Lai a peaceful, clean, civilized land. At the same time, the province continues to reform administrative procedures, shorten the time for processing documents, make information transparent, strengthen progress monitoring and adjust and withdraw projects that are no longer suitable.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee especially emphasized that Gia Lai wants investors to register and commit to implementing projects on schedule; develop in the direction of green economy, circular economy, and environmental friendliness; together build a sustainable business ecosystem, bringing long-term value to the community. At the same time, investors need to demonstrate strong financial capacity, directly implement projects with products on schedule, as committed, do real work, and achieve real results; not sell or transfer projects; and actively accompany the locality in social security and environmental protection activities.
The investment promotion conference is an opportunity to introduce and widely promote the province's potential and competitive advantages, creating conditions for domestic and foreign investors and enterprises to learn about the province's mechanisms, preferential policies and investment environment, creating a premise for investment activities and expanding cooperation between Gia Lai province and domestic and foreign investors. From there, expand domestic and international cooperation relationships, support enterprises to improve competitiveness, seek partners, attract strategic investors and promote investment opportunities and trade promotion. At the same time, this is also an opportunity for enterprises in the province to participate in promoting and introducing the province's strong product brands and export orientation to importers.
The conference featured 10 important speeches from leaders of ministries, economic experts and investors, providing orientations and sharing strategies for the investment environment of Vietnam in general and Gia Lai in particular.
Gia Lai Provincial Electronic Information Portal will continue to update detailed information about the Conference.
Source: https://gialai.gov.vn/tin-tuc/hoat-dong-cua-lanh-dao/hoi-nghi-xuc-tien-dau-tu-tinh-gia-lai-thu-hut-hon-400-doanh-nghiep-nha-dau-tu-tham-du.html
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