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Article 1: Increasing investment and completing infrastructure
Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW emphasizes that infrastructure is one of the key and core areas that need to be completed and taken one step ahead. Developing infrastructure, especially digital infrastructure and digital technology, is based on the principle of “modernity, synchronisation, security, safety, efficiency, and avoiding waste”. Being fully aware of the importance of infrastructure, Da Nang has been increasing investment to develop science and technology.
Developing telecommunications and information technology infrastructure
According to data from the i-Speed Internet access speed measurement platform of the Viet Nam Internet Centre under the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology announced in early February 2025, Da Nang continues to lead the country with an average mobile broadband network speed of 95.81 Mbps, maintaining the top position for 8 consecutive months.
To achieve this encouraging results, the city has set up 2,577 mobile base stations in the area, ensuring 4G mobile coverage to 100% of residential areas in the area and fixed broadband fiber optic cable coverage to 100% of the residential areas.
Currently, the city is deploying 5G and has 266 commercial stations in the area concentrated in the central area, tourist areas, covering 15/56 wards and communes.
Da Nang has a submarine optical cable station landing in Hoa Hai Ward, Ngu Hanh Son District with 2 SMW and APG optical cable lines, with a total current capacity of 55.132Tb/s, accounting for 14.37% of the total capacity of 8 submarine optical cable lines in Viet Nam, which can be expanded to reach a capacity of 40% for Viet Nam’s international connections.
In particular, the international optical cable station and the submarine optical cable landing in Da Nang are being invested in by the Military Industry - Telecoms Group, with a cable bandwidth of 90Tbps, which will be started in the first quarter of 2025. This is an important infrastructure to form a digital transformation center of the ASEAN region.
Till date, the city has built an urban network (MAN) with a total length of 450km of underground optical cable, connecting 191 agencies, units and organisations. The city has a public wifi system with a total of 344 devices of Da Nang wifi and 1,000 devices of socialized investment enterprises.
With regard to data infrastructure, the Da Nang Data Centre has just been upgraded and expanded on a cloud computing platform, investing in 17 additional servers, increasing the total storage capacity of the center to about 300TB, serving the processing of smart applications and rapid expansion, ensuring e-government operating resources, equipped with specialised information security systems such as firewalls, IDS/IPS devices and load balancing.
With regard to data centres operated by enterprises such as VNPT Data Center with a floor area of 800m2, arranged with 100 racks - storage devices and management of electronic devices at data centres; the CMC Data Centre with a floor area of 200m2, 11 racks; the Viettel Data Centre with 100 racks, the FPT Data Centre…
Two centers VNPT and CMC meet Tier-III standards for design, operation and management assessment of a data center infrastructure. In particular, the IDC Da Nang Data Centre with a scale of 1,000 racks and a load capacity of 18 MW developed by the International Data Centre Joint Stock Company has been approved for investment in principle by the end of 2024, initially forming a regional data centre in Da Nang.
In a bid to develop data infrastructure, the city has completed a low-energy Internet of Things connection system (Lora system) with 20 transceiver stations. The city’s public service portal has connected and integrated 1,381 online public services to the National Public Service Portal. The city has deployed 94% of level-3 online public services and 100% of eligible online public services have been deployed at the full process level.
The city has nearly 260,000 electronic citizen accounts created with a personal data warehouse. The city expands the Shared Data Warehouse with the ability to collect and process camera data, Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and social networks to share with sectors and localities for use in directing, operating, and providing better services to the people.
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Promote key projects
A ceremony took place On January 16, 2025, to inaugurate the Da Nang Software Park No. 2 and put into use the ICT1 building with 8 floors, a total floor area of over 39,000m2, an exploitation area of 21,000m2, in which priority is given to strategic partners, strategic investors, small businesses, innovative enterprises in the field of semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI).
At the 22nd session (special session) in mid-February 2025, the Da Nang People’s Council agreed on the policy of putting into early operation the information infrastructure of Da Nang Software Park No. 2 (for completed construction items).
The early operation of the Da Nang Software Park No. 2 and 3 concentrated IT parks recognized by the Vietnamese Government (Da Nang Software Park, Da Nang Concentrated IT Park - Phase 1, FPT Office Complex), the city’s science and technology infrastructure basically meets the requirements of investors.
Currently, the municipal government is actively implementing procedures to soon form 3 new IT parks: the creative space project in Hoa Xuan Ward, Cam Le District with an area of 17.3 hectares (investment policy has been approved); the Viettel Da Nang building in Hoa Cuong Bac Ward, Hai Chau District with an area of 1.07 hectares (expected to start construction in the second quarter of 2025); the Da Nang Bay IT Park in Hoa Minh Ward, Lien Chieu District with an area of 3.5 hectares (investment policy is being implemented).
In addition to the concentrated information technology zones, the city continues to prioritize investment resources to develop the High-tech Zone according to Decision No. 4621/QD-UBND dated October 14, 2019 of the Da Nang People's Committee on approving the Master Plan for the Development of the Da Nang High-Tech Park by 2030 and Decision No. 129/QD-UBND dated January 18, 2023 of the Da Nang People’s Committee on approving the project of the Programme to link the Da Nang High-tech Park with enterprises in industrial parks and economic zones in Viet Nam’s central region for the 2021 - 2025 period, with a vision toward 2030. Accordingly, the city continues to transfer technology at the High-tech Park, including factory block No. 1 of the High-tech Incubation Centre (the Research and Development Zone).
As reported by Mr. Tran Van Ty, the Deputy Head of the Authority of the High-Tech Park and Industrial Zones, in 2025, his agency will apply the BIM information model in state management, and at the same time complete the regulations on incubation management and support for incubation projects at the High-tech Park, hereby effectively exploiting the infrastructure to promote the scientific and technological development.
The city continues to upgrade the information and communication technology infrastructure to serve digital government such as the Da Nang Intelligent Operations Centre (IOC), the Specialized Monitoring Centre; the Da Nang Data Centre, the Security Operations Centre (SOC), the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) and the Local Area Network (LAN).
According to Mr. Le Son Phong, the Deputy Director of the Da Nang Department of Information and Communications, under Plan No. 229/KH-UBND dated November 14, 2024 of the Da Nang People's Committee on implementing digital transformation tasks in the area, in 2025, the city deploys a City Data Centre to serve digital transformation in the direction of using cloud computing technology according to a set of criteria and technical indicators of cloud computing platforms serving e-Government.
In addition, the plan for developing digital infrastructure in Da Nang for the 2025 - 2030 period will be deployed, in which the key tasks including deploying 5G network to ensure coverage for industrial parks and the High-tech Park; building a 5G Private model for smart manufacturing.
