“Golden Opportunity” To Welcome FDI Movement

There are “golden opportunities” for the world to know Vietnam and invest in Vietnam, with a special advantage of “strategic trust”, a safe investment destination and ready to welcome shifting capital flows. But taking advantage of opportunities or not depends on the actions of Vietnam.

There is no doubt that there is a wave of foreign investment moving away from China into Southeast Asia, including Vietnam.

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In fact, the trend of shifting investment from China into Vietnam has started to become stronger since last year, after the US – China trade war became more and more complicated. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend. Not only the administration of President Donald Trump, but also many European countries, including Japan have also called and announced their willingness to support their companies to move production out of China to reduce dependence on this economy.

Perhaps, because of that, for the first time, Apple is stepping up the production of AirPods wireless headphones in Vietnam, the number can be up to millions of products. And not only headphones, but many other important components are also expected to be manufactured in Vietnam, helping Apple no longer have to rely heavily on suppliers from the Chinese market. Recently, Apple Vietnam has announced the recruitment of many important technical personnel, and the move is thought to be made to better monitor the production of these components in Vietnam.

Both Microsoft, Samsung, LG and many other large and small corporations are also investing in Vietnam market.

Speaking at the Prime Minister’s meeting with businesses, representatives of European, Japanese, Korean and US businesses… in Vietnam have confirmed their interest in Vietnam’s investment destination.

In the first four months of 2020, foreign investment in Vietnam tended to decline, but according to the Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, Vietnam was still a lucky market, as one of the few countries in the world still recorded positive investment flows. If Vietnam early controls the epidemic and the positive macroeconomic prospects return from the third quarter, it may benefit from the shift of foreign investment flows.