The Decision No.7675/QD-UBND approving the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Promotion Program of Danang City in the period of 2013-2016 was promulgated by Danang Peple's Committee. As an advisory and coordinating agency of the People's Committee to realize the program, Danang Investment Promotion Center (IPC Danang) held a kick-off meeting with the participation of representatives of local government departments and media agency on December 26th 2013.
At the meeting, IPC Danang representative reviewed the FDI situation over the past years, identifying the drawbacks in the implementation of the FDI promotion, and detailing many activities to be done during 2014-2016. The local department representatives unanimously agreed with the suggestions of IPC Danang and emphasized the necessity of centralizing investment promotion activities and strengthening the collaboration among the local departments. Many opinions focused on furthering administrative reforms, especially in the attitude and practice of local government officials who directly work with investors; implementing investment promotion activities focusing on target markets; improving post-licensing services by effectively supporting existing projects; providing consistent information on Danang business environment to investors; and conducting market research in key economic sectors to facilitate investment promotion.
Ha My – Danang IPC
